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Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina han's " LL Whisky. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Gold Medal. _ _ K INARAN'S Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd. at the Retail llousei ii London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), 4, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT.GARDFN, LONEON, And 38, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON, ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Freehold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, epayable weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly dis ounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. S C H•W EPPE'S MINERAL WATERS. The Army and Navy Gazette sayS :—Lieutenant-General Sir George Buller, G.C.8., on Monday gives over the command of the Southern (Portsmouth) District to Lieu tenant-General Lord Templetown, K.C.8., and retires from active military service, carrying with him the respect of all those who, during the many years he has served his country so honourably and so well, have had the good fortune to serve with and under him. We have reason to believe that although Captain Sherard Osborn, C. 8., did not spew a disposition to serve in peaceable times, there is every probability he will, now that the political horizon is darkened over, be both ready and willing to place his ser vices at the disposal of his country ; and there is au equal probability that the First Lord of the Admiralty will not fail to avail himself of them in case of need. —Captain J. W. Hozier, Scots Greys, is to have the coveted appointment of Brigade-Major of Cavalry at Aldershot, about to be vacated by Captain and Brevet- Major W. Arbuthnot, 14th Hussars, who has pur chased his regimental majority. Captain Hozier (elder brother of the writer) is known not only as an excel lent regimental officer, and a very distinguished Staff College • student, but for his late exertions as secretary to the Royal Commission on Military Education, and en3ecially for the valuable report •mad e t o t h at body, since published, on the military schools of France and Prussia. Rear-Admiral Hornby's flying sq ua d ron l e f t Honolulu for Tahiti on the 23rd o f June, and will soon make its way with all possible 'speed to Valparaiso. The ships will, no doubt, be hurried home in conse quence of the critical state of affairs in Europe, and will probably arrive in England some weeks before they were originally expected. The health of Mr. Childers is completely restored, and he is now capable of giving his undivided attention to business. We under stand that from conscientious motives Captain Charles Stirling, R.N. (1863), has ,resigned the commission he held in her Majesty's service. Lieutenant-General Sir William Mansfield, G.C.8., G. C. S. 1., takes over the command of the troops in Ire land, vice General Lord Strathnairn, G.C.8., from Major-General Sir A. A. T. Cunynghame, K.C.8., on Monday, and will assume th e command of an army in the highest state of efficiency. The two divisions of the Channel Squadron will shortly rendezvous off Plymouth, and will proceed to sea to meet Sir Alexander Milne, who will assume the command of the combined fleet, and retain it for a certain period, returning afterwards, as we have pr ev i ous l y said, to England in H.M.S. Bellerophon.— The chief clerk at the Admiralty, Mr. Thomas Wolley, and Mr. Robert Bell, one of the senior clerks, have been recom mended by their lordships to the Lord-Chancellor to be placed on the commission of the peace.—Colonel R. Carey, C. 8., half-pay, late 40th Regiment, succeeds Colonel C. G. Mein, as Deputy Judge-Advocate at Man, chester on Monday.—Major R. Harbord, half-pay, late 7th Fusiliers, recently promoted to a half-pay majo ity, has been oppointed Garrison Instructor at Oork.— Major-General L. S. O'Connor, C. 8., lately in command of the forces in the West Indies, arrived home from Jamaica on Wednesday.—Colonel C. Nugent, Deputy Judge Advocate at Dublin, will we are informed, remain in his present position.—ln future the consolidated pay and allowances of the Military Secretary to the Field-Marshal Commanding-in -Chief will be £1,500, instead of £2,300 a year as heretofore.—Colonel J. H. Laye, Deputy Judge- Advocate, will not be succeeded for the present. It is, in fact, probable that he will retain his appointment until his promotion to the rank of Major-general.— We have it upon excellent authority that as yet, although the present condition of our army has received the serious attention, of both the Secretary fox War and the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, nothing has been done to prepare us for taking any steps towards the protection of Belgium, should our services be required. The United Service Gazette is able to state on the most undoubted authority that orders have been given for a large number of troops to be held in readiness for active service.—The Gazette also says that recruiting at the various stations is being carried on with dmsiderable activity. It is confidently rumoured that the scheme for the unification of the Army , Medical Department has been abandoned.—lt has been elicited from Mr. Cardwell in the House of Commons that 53,859 Snider rifles have been supplied to the Militia, and 7,330 to the Yeomanry Cavalry. On the other hand, there are several regiments of the Line in India who are not yet in possession of breech-loading arms.—There is every probability of the Admiralty adopting Mr. Hen wood's system for cutting down, armour-plating, and making available for defence some of our old " wooden walls." Better late than never. The appointments to the Control Department will, we believe, not be gazetted until after the dissolution of Parliament, the reason being obviously to prevent any disagreeable questions relative to the dreadful muddle that must ensue, from the amal gamation of the officers of the different departments under the control system, and the favouritism which has been shewn in the acting appointments already made. — The following are the names of the Committee of Con struction at the Admiralty : Messrs. Frederic K. Barnes, Nathaniel Barnaby, and B. Crossland. Mr. Mor gan, the present professional secretary, is secretary to the committee. ALLEGED FORGERY:—At the Mansion House, Alfred Chui•ch, eighteen years of 'age, described as a tea taster, was charged before . the Lord Mayor with forgino• and uttering a cheque for £4B 12 5 ., w ith i n t en t to defraud the governor and directors of the Alliance Bank, in Bartholomew-lane. The charge was preferred by Mr. Richard Mullens, solicitor to the Lotrdon Bankers' Protection Association. The prisoner had been in the service of Messrs. Nathan and Wood, tea brokers, in Philpot-lane, but had left in February last. On the 16th of July the Cheque in question for £4B 12s. was presented at the Alliance Bank, where they kept an. account, and cashed acros§ 'the counter. It purported to be signed by Messrs. Nathan and Wood, as did also an order for a cheque-book which had been obtained at the bank a day or two before. The prisoner was known at the bank as having been accustomed to go there on the business of the firm, but he was not identified as the person who had presented either the order or the check. Both'menabcra of sthe firm, however, were called as witnesses, and they spoke to both being in the prisoner's handwriting to the 'best of their belief. The cheque was presented on July 16, as soon as the doors of the bank were opened. At the request of the .solicitor for the prosecution, the case being incom plete, the Lord Mayor remanded the prisoner until Monday week. A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.—At Mayl borough-street, Mr. James Unett Lofts, of Wellington place, Dulwich, a gentleman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and assaulting Arthur Pole, a groom, living in eangley-court, Long Acre. The com plainant said he was standing outside a public-house in Piccadilly on Friday night, when the prisoner gave him, without the least provocation, a back-handed blow on the face, tore his coat, and seized him by the throat, and pushed him violently against a lamp-post. Several persons advised him to give the prisoner into custody, and he did so.—ln reply to the prisoner, the complainant said he did not tread on his toes in the public house.—Daniel Cooper proved that the prisoner " flew at the complainant like ft lion " and struck him. —The prisoner said he did, and NA ould do so again if he were offended by any one.—Mr. Tyrwhitt said a man of the prisoner's appearance ought to be ashamed to act as the prisoner had done. The prisoner would have to pay £5, or two months. The complainant asked to be compensated for the damage to his coat.—Mr. Tyrwhitt then ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of £4 108., ai.d 10s. as compensation to the complainant. CONVICTION OF BETTING MEN.—George Lock, 97, Star-street, Paddington, tobacconist,. Thomas Baker, 19, Stanley-street, Paddington, cab-driver, badge number s 594, and Daniel Landon, 5, South-wharf-road, Padding ton, carpenter, were charged at the Maryebone Police court, with unlawfully assembling together in London. street, Paddington, for the purpose of, betting, thereby causing an obstruction, contrary to the 30th and 31st Vic. chap. 34, sec. 22, under the Metropolitan Streets Act. Samuel Doble, detective of the .X division, said on the previous day he was in London-street, and saw the pri soner Lock with a betting list in his hand. Baker asked him the price of the odds upon a horse that they men tioned for the Chester Cup. Lock said, four to one. Baker said that was not good enough. They then went round the corner into a mews, where Lock took out a piece of paper and wrote something on it after Baker had given him two half-crowns. Baker went away, and Lock entered something on a piece of paper . Landon then asked Lock the price of the odds against Formosa. Baker came back and said to Lock, book me another at the same price. Lock took some money from him and put it in his pocket. Lock put something down on a piece of paper. Witness went up, and Lock tried to tear up the papers. He now produced a portion of it. Cross-examined : London-street is a great thoroughfare. He was close to the prisoners. Hobbs, police-constable 178 X, said he went to the spot and saw Baker pass some money to Lock who placed it in his pocket. After a short time Baker came hack and passed some more money to Lock. He then went into a public hquse. In answer to Mr. Sampson this witness said that he did see money pass. Mr. Sampson addressed the magistrate at length, and argued that under the Betting Act the police had done a wrong in apprehending* the prisoners. Mr. Mansfield said the prisoners were properly charged under the Metropolitan Streets Act, which had these words—" Where three or more persons assemble together in a public thoroughfare they shall be deemed guilty of causing an obstruction in the street." He thought the prisoners had so infringed the law. If they wished to carry on their avocation as racing men, they had better become respectable members of Tattersall's. The penalty the law allowed him to award in cases of this kind was £5. The prisoners would each have to pay £5 The fine was paid. A Row IN AN EATING-HOUSE--Matthew Graham, a tall, determined, strong fellow, aged 30 years, and de scribed as a labourer, was brought up b e f ore M r . Lush ington, charged with a variety of offences, which included charges of being disorderly in the eating-house of Mi. G. Parkiss, Whitehapel, .refusing to leave when requested, making a disturbance, and assault ing Mr. Parkiss. The prisoner was also charged with assaulting Mr. John Hyett, eating house keeper, of No. 22, Hoxton-street, Shoreditch, and Robert Hill, a police-constable, No. 101 H. In addition to this, he was charged with damaging several choice dishes which the chef de cuisine of Mr. Parkiss's establishment had prepared for the hungry liege subjects of her Majesty. It appeared that the prisoner visited the eating.house of Mr. Patkess last night. He was full of appetite and full of drink, and after he, had treated hi mse lf w ith soups, meat, and plenty of vegetables and bread, lie paid his score and took his departure. He returned in a few minutes, and complained that Mr. Parkiss had not given him his right change. He demanded 5d., which Mr. Parkiss ref Used to give him. He then made a great disturbance, and capsized all the dishes of meat and soupl in the place. Mr. Parkiss attempted to put him out, but was unable to do so, and the prisoner tore his shirt to ribbons, and bit two of Mr. Parkiss's fingers severely. Mr. Hyett, another eating-house keeper, came to the rescue, and was severely kicked and disabled by the prisoner, who carried all before him, and would have made a complete wreck of the shop, had not two constables of the H Division, named Eldred and Hill, arrived on the scene of action, and seized the prisoner, who fiercely attacked both office rs . Eld r ed was rendered hors de combat in an instant, and Hill, who gallantly seized the prisoner, was kicked a severe blow on the leg. He struggled desperately with the prisoner, who threw the policeman, and then kicked him again on the side. A reinforcement arrived, and the prisoner was secured. He pleaded it was the drop taken that did all the mischief.—Mr. Lushington said the priioner had acted like a madman, and sentenced him to six months' imprisonment and hard labour for three assaults on Mr. Perkiss, Mr. Hyatt, and Hill the constable. Wart HORSES.—On Saturday morning another extensive batch of English horses, of first class description were taken to the Waterloo-road terminus of the South Western Railway, for conveyance, it was believed to Portsmouth, and from thence to be transferred to France and Prussia. This is the third draft from the same railway station during the last few days. A HARD CASE.—Mr. 'Baxter admits that he is the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, and is, there fore, responsible for all the acts carried out in his name. We are informed that a naval officer has been pensioned off on a particular sum per diem which should produce a certain annual amount, but the counting-house system which the hon. member for Montrose has introduced into Whitehall has proved itself in fault in this case, for in no way can it make the two sums agree simply from the fact that leap year has not been taken into consideration. In the meantime the luckless officer cannot draw any por tion. of the pay due to him. Surely it would be in keep ing with ordinary commercial practice if, pending a settle ment, a sum were paid to this suffering creditor on account.—Army and Navy Gazette. THE LATE FENIAN RAID.—A despatch from Earl Granville to Sir John Young, Governor-General of Canada, has been published. His l or d s hip p r ai s es the conduct of the volunteers and militia in repelling the late Fenian raid and says :—The discredit and ridicule attach. ing to these marauders on account of their signal over throw when they had scarcely crossed the frontier must cripple, if not utterly destroy, the means of re-organising expeditions as wicked and unjustifiable in their conception as they 'have proved to be feeble and unsuccessful in their execution. • The geniuine admiration of the spirit and behaviour of the Canadian levies which pervades the reports of Colonel Smith and Colonel Bagot is the best evidence that their easy success is not so much due to the character of their opponents as to the intrinsic qualities of the Canadians, the promptitude, courage, and intelligence which make individuals distinguished and a nation great." A PARIS HALFPENNY PAPER.—I have before me a little halfpenny paper. You might hide half a dozen copies of it, undetected by the Post-office authorities, in a single copy of the Figaro. It is called L'Armee. Bear in mind that it is not a journal of yesterday. It has not been just thrust into the boulevard kiosks to effect a little official chantage. It is not to be ranked with the Lutte. It has reached the respectable age of thirteen years. Its file includes all the military exploits of France which date since the Crimean war. In its columns, the French soldier comes upon a military record of Magenta and Solferino. By its light the hesitating youngster warms to the point of volunteering. Upon its front page is a bold • portrait of Marshal Mac-Mahon, Commander of the Ist Corps d'Armde of the Rhine. Its leading romance of the pre sent is " The Revenge of Waterloo." This _sou organ 'of military France reflects the general feeling—is a feathe that shews truly the direction of the wind; and it is moi, important to watch its progress, now that it has become a daily paper. than it is to follow the Journal Officie/. Daily News Correspondent. In the Court of Vice-Chancellor MalinS, on Saturday, Sir Roundell Palmer applied for the discharge of the recent order of the Court as far as the Turkish Ambas sador was concerned. Sir Roundell Palmer stated that the Turkish Government had given an order for the con struction of an iron steamer, the contract price (1:92,000) being arranged to be paid in periodical instalments. The vessel was ready for sea on Wednesday last, and it was alleged by the company that on the following day the men in charge were overpowered by the representa tives of the Turkish Government, and that the vessel was seized and immediately taken to sea. The same afternoon an injunction was obtained in that court, and on the fol lowing morning the vessel, under the powers of the injunc tion, was forcibly retained. The allegation was that the Government had done all this for the purpose of escaping the payment of the last instalment of £22,000, but he was in a position to prove that the whole thing was a mere pretext on the part of the company with the view of escaping certain penalties which they had incurred. But with that he had nothing- to do at present, the obje c t of his application being to have the fact of the order which related to the Turkish Ambassador discharged, inasmuch as the official had had nothing whatever to do with the transaction, and had not, in fact, been served with a notice of the injunction. The Vice-Chancellor, after consulting some authorities on the question, acceded to the application. THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. In the Rolls Court on Saturday Sir Richard Baggallay, Q.C., M.P., presented a petition in the case of Bubb v. Yelverton, which is a suit for the administration of the estate of the late Marquis of Hastings, filed at the instance of a creditor. Sir Richard stated that a fund had been deposited in court I for the purpose of discharging the debts of the deceased. At one time it was thought that the estate was quite insolvent ; but subsequent inquiries had shewn that it was solvent, and that to a very considerable extent. The Marchioness and some members of the deceased's family were the residuary legatees of the estate. It appeared from a certificate of the Chief Clerk, dated June last, that the debts proved amounted 'altogether to £92,916, and that there were other claims still under consideration to the extent of £42,793 ss. 4d. The object of the present petition was for the benefit of those interested in the estate, by the payment of the certified debts out of the fund in Court. Amongst those debts were over two hundred for sums under £lO, some being as small as 55., and it was proposed that the aggregate amount of those debts should be paid to Mr. Blake, solicitor to the trustee, upon his undertaking to pay the several parties, In addi tion to the sums he had already mentioned, it was the desire of all parties that 1:20,000 should be paid Mr. Padwick, and as that would substantially pay off the whole of the debts in the suit, he asked that the costs of all the parties should be taxed up to the present time. Lord Romilly assented to the application, remark ing that he had no objection to the proposal of paying off the small creditors, inasmuch as he had the utmost confidence in the gentleman who had been named ; and every difficulty would be met by the insertion of adver tisements in the public newspapers indicating that the small claims would be settled in this particular manner. Mr. Greenhow and Mr. Bellamy, the manager and cashier of the Hereford branch of the West of England Bank, have been committed for trial on a charge of having embezzled the sum of £4,611, the moneys of the bank. Mr. Mellish, Q.C., is to be the new Lord Justice. Mr. Mellish is not a member of the equity bar. He was called in 1848, and has since practised exclusively at common law. He is still in the prime of life, and has attained the highest position as counsel at the common law bar, having been engaged for years in almost every case of importance. The new Lord Justice refused a puisne judgeship two or three years ago when a vacancy occurred on the bench. The Cork, Examiner says that the Lord Chief Justice was the object of an extraordinary demonstration while_proceeding to Belfast on Monday to open the assizes. At Sainthill an Orange band from IN ewtownwards entered one of the carriages of the train in which his lordship was travelling and accompanied him to Comber, playing "The Protestant Boys." At Comber they got out and stood on the platform, waving Orange pocket handkerchiefs and cheering as the train moved on. THE IRISH RIOTS AND THE POLICE.—At the Cork assizes on Friday a policeman named Crowley was charged with firing on the people during the riots at Ballyheega n , County Kerry. A man named O'Hara, who wa s woun d e d stated that the police attacked them with bayonets with out cause, and the prisoner, with other policemen, fired on them. Judge Keogh summed up in favour of the prisoner, who was acquitted. In the other cases a nolle prosequi was entered. SHOCKING GUN ACCIDENT AT HEREFORD.—On Friday, a youth named Hook, employed in the office of Mr. Chick, architect, Hereford, purchased a revolver., with cartridges, and took it to th e o ffi ce c h arged, and allowed a junior clerk to play with it. Just at the moment a youth named Frank 'funks was entering the office, when Hook pointed the revolver at him and shot him, breaking his left jaw and knocking out his teeth. The ball has not been extracted, and the unfortunafe sufferer lies in a dangerous state. FRANCE, BELGIUM, AND IRELAND.—The London correspondent of the Birmingham Gazette writes :—" Our Government is said to be so disconcerted at the revelations of the last day or two, as to be on the point of entering into negotiations with Russia and Austria, the two great Powers who remain neutral with us, to send an army of occupation to Belgium, to fall upon whatever Power ventures to violate its territory, and to provide against any such contingency as we have intimated. Should further advices from Berlin prove that the docu ment published in the Times was recently sub mitted to the King of Prusssia as an ulti matum, a course like this need n)t excite much surprise. There is a whisper going round that the curious disturbances and demonstrations in Ireland in favour of the French have not sprung up of themselves, but have been originated and fomented by . French influence and French gold. What our Gallic neighbours have to gain, though, by the senseless ravings of a Fenian mob is, we must confess, beyond our apprehension, and it is quite in keeping with the national character for the quondam Mayor of Cork and other agitators to hail the French Emperor as the champion of liberty and the deliverer of Europe. Still it is just worth while ascertaining whether the report has any foundation or no, J DD FELLOWS' GREAT DAY.-THIS DAY. —lnnumerable amusements inside the Palace and in the grounds. One shilling day. Everyone should go. CRYSTAL PALACE.-GRAND PYROTECH NIC DISPLAY AND ILLUMINATION of GREAT and OTHER FOUNTAINS. The display of Monday evening was so entirely successful, and was received with such enthusiasm by the 30,000 visitors then present, that it will be repeated in its entire magnificence on Thursday next, the 4th August. Yerdi's opera, "Il Trovatore," will be played during the afternoon. Military Band will play for promenade during the evening. Notwithstanam the extended preparation and the consequent great cost the 'admission will still be ls. ; guinea season tickets free ; children half-price. Reserved seats and stalls, 2s. 6d., and is., may be at once secured at th e C rys t a l P a l ace, or a t Exeter Hall. Note.—Full particulars and bills forwarded on application to parties desirous of undertaking excursions. O R U N E Lessee and Manager, Mr. JOHN BA . m. ADMISSION, ONE SHILLING. AMUSEMENTS FREE. CREMORNE. - THIS DAY, MONDAY. - GREAT SHILLING FETE.-SPLENDID,FIREWORKS. CREMORNE.—GREAT FETE THIS DAY for the MILLION. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING—AMU 4E MENTS FREE. The - Gardens now in perfection, The best and most wonderful Entertainments in the world. This EVENING, and during the week, at 10, "the NEW GRAND MAGIC FAIRY BALLET, LA FEE AUX ROSES ; or, the Enchanted Roses. In Five Tableaux. Introducing the cele brated Skaters, Mdlle. Frederica and Mons. Elliott, in the Skating Scene. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING, AMUSEMENTS FREE. ALHAMBRA. - MR. FREDK. STRANGE, Managing Director.—OPEN TO-NIGHT, at Eight o'clock. Everything New. Three Grand Ballets, " LES FLEURS DU JAR DIN ;" " BROWN, JONES, and ROBIN SON," New Comic Ballet, by H. Boleno and Troupe ; and New Magnificent Water Hallet "LES NATIONS, or GRAND CASCADES," with Real Water ; and a host of Novelties and Varieties. The Best Band in London, under M. Riviire. Prices—ls., 25., and Gallery, 6d. ; Dress Circle, 55.; Private Boxes, 215., 31s. 6d., and 425.—80 x Office open from Eleven till Four. ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL -STREET, Piccadilly. The extraordinary success which has attended the production of the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects of the electric light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici pate in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance Music Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, have had the gratifying effect of making the l.r. sent one the most extensively patronized season since its first opening. The Celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient chef, Signor Luigi 'Curti, performs the choicest and latest com positions of all distinguished composers—the solos in which are assigned to the eminent enphonionist, Signor L. Moses,; Messrs. W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr. Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.O. _ _ Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, 2s. BIONEL Proprietor. N.B.—The GRAND EXTRA NIGHT and Last L, of the Season will take place on MONDAY, Ist August. Now published, t -1-1 .1 - OP. D ISLE, AND TOR." A BOOK FOR TOURISTS IN NORWAY, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, CORNWALL, AND THE SCILLY ISLANDS. BY EDWARD SPENDER PRICE 3s. "It is a • straightforwardly and sometimes gracefully written Sketch of Norway, the Channel Islands, and rnwall, from the holiday traveller's point of view, not, however, exclusively devoted to matters of scenery or itinerary, but designed to give the voyager an intelligent interest in the manners, customs, industries, and institutions of the districts he is expl ring. For intending visitors to Norway especially, Mr. Spender s book will be welcome. It has, moreover, the decided advantage of com pression, clearness of style, and easy manageableness of bulk."— Daily Telegraph. "The volume perfectly fulfils its purpose. It is neat and cheap and contains in a small space a great quantity of very interesting matter, much of which will be novel, and all of which will be useful, not only to those who visit the places described, but to those who stay at home. Mr. Spender is an acute. observer, a most industrious and judicious collector of facts, and an eloquent and graphic writer, and does ample justice to his subjects."— Yorkshire Post. "It deserves a welcome, this book we have so long uncon sciously been in search of. The itineraries themselves are to the intending excursionists a veritable benefaction. . . Altogether the book is one to carry in one's knapsack or valise during' the happy time of our holiday excursion, and to giye a place to on our book-shelves Afterwards as a most pleasant remembrancer." —Sun " Fjord, isle, and Tor' is a very delightful little book. The essay on Norway is particularly full of information, but the others are not far behind it in proportion to their length, and all are written in a genial spirit."—Globe. " Without being exactly a guide-book, it answers all the pur poses of one, and contains beside a vast quantity of information, all given in the most condensed form possible. There is not a line of space wasted in fine writing, but the descriptions of scenery bear witness to the author's genuine love and appreciation of the picturesque, just as his closely compressed facts and statements prove the practical and hardworking man of letters."—Man cheater Courier. " From back to back 'Fjord, Isle, and Tor' is full of matter interesting equally to the tourist and the ordinary reader. It is written in an easy and pleasant style, and is well 'got up.' " Eastern Morning News: - - '• We cannot part with this fascinating little work without con gratulating Mr. Spender upon it. Addressed, as it more especially is, to travellers in Norway, the Channel Islands, and Cornwall, it is, nevertheless, a book that will afford the keenest gratifica tion to the general public. . . . As to its literary merits we need say nothing, the name of the author being sufficient guarantee on this point."—Western Mail. "The articles shew unusual power of observation, are full of genial gossip, and supply just what the excursionist wants- - reliable information."—Western Daily Press. CHARLTON TUCKER 21, Northumberland-street, Charing Cross MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. Now added Portrait Models of JOHN JONES, alias JOHN OWEN, and WALTER MILLAR, to the CHAMBER OF HORRORS. Admission, ls. ; Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. THE MUSICAL ART UNlON.—Under the 1 sanction and Control of her Majesty's Privy Council. The PRIZES at the approaching Distribution will consist of valuable PIANOFORTES and other Musical Instruments,. BOOKS, &c. 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CHAPMAN & COM ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUR sold by all respectable Chemists and Grocers, in packets, 3d., 6d., and is., and tips, 3s. Sole Proprietors—OßLANDO JONES and CO., 18, Enter- street, E.C., London MORNING. M. DE LESSEPS. On Saturday afternoon the Freedom of the dity of London was presented to M. le Viserate De Lessep; at a special Court of Common Council, held i n th e grea. hall, Guildhall. The Lord Mayor presided, and there was a full attendance of aldermen and members of the Common Council, besides a large number of the general public, in cluding Mr. Samuel Morley, M.P., Professor Owen; and others. M. de Lesseps was introduced .by Mr.' Deputy White and Mr. Wheatley, the mover . and seconder of the moti on t o confer upon him the freedoin Of the City. • ' - • Mr. Scott, the Chainberlain of London, in making the presentation on behalf of the Corporation, said that the name of M. de Lesseps wound be inscribed!beSide those of men like Cobden and Peabody; who, like M. de Lesseps, had gained bloodless victories. (Cheers.) One great poet had said— " Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war." and it was a prevalent conviction of the ptesent age that such achievements as the construction of the Suez Canal conferred a- higher glory, and conduced to greater triumphs than those of the most successful warrior. (Re newed applause.) M. de Lesseps, in reply, made a speech in the French language, in the course of which he' acknowledged the compliment that had been paid to him, and remarked that in order to add to the stability of the council, he recog nised the importance of England directing her traffic through the new water way. (Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. Deputy Robert Taylor, it was resolved that the address of the chamberlain...v.4A the reply thereto should be entered in the journals of fife Court. The proceedings then terminated. LAW AND POLICE. SERIOUS FRAUD.-At the Nottingham Assizes a frame work knitter. named Matthew Buxton has been sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment with hard labour for de frauding the Midland Railway Company under somewhat singular circumstances. Buxton had been injured in an accident which occurred on tin; company's line at Mans field Junction, and had succeeded by " shamming" serious illness in obtaining from the . company conlpensation to the amount of £l5O and £213 costS. His sudden recovery •tiftei obtitinihg this; compensation .raised suspicions as to the truth.of his representations,-and he was brought to trial-on. a charge of frzind, with the•resiilt stated. AUG UST 1, 18 DEATH OF THE DEPUTY CHIEF-CON STABLE OF GLAMORGANSHIRE. The death is announced of Mr. James Thomas, deputy chief-constable for the county. He died on Friday evening suddenly at Pontypridd. EXTENSIVE FIRE AT LEICESTER. About eleven o'clock on Friday night one of the most terrible fires that has broken out in this town for some years past occurred in a four-storied building, in Brown street. Owing to the combustible material Contained on the premises (elastic web, hosiery, &c.),. the fire spread with great rapidity, and illuminated the sky for several Miles around. The premises at one end were completely gutted. Durinc , the progress of the conflagration part of the walls fell' in with a tremendous crash, thus placing the lives of the firemen in great danger. The damage is estimated at considerably over ten thousand pounds. The fire was still raging at one o'clock on Satur day morning. THE SINKING OF THE MAIL STEAMER NORMANDY. Sir R. J. Phillimore gave judgment on Saturday in the case of the Normandy v. the Mary. It will be remembered that the mail steamer Normandy, while on her passage from Southampton to the Channel Islands, on the 17th of March last, was sunk by collision with the screw-steamer Mary, when the captain, engineers, and a portion of the crew of the Normandy were lost. An injunction had b' granted to restrain all 'MEOns for loss ag either owners until after the case had b, decided by the Admiralty Court, in which cro, suits were instituted. The court now hel that the Normandy was solely to blame for the collision, by reason of running at a high rate of speed during foggy weather ; while the Mary had not contributed in any way to the disaster, but was navigated in a most careful manner. The absence of the white light from the mast head was held to be immaterial, under the circumstances; and at any rate the court was of opinion that it had been trimmed and replaced without any unnecessary delay. ALLEGED COLLUSION TO OBTAIN A DIVORCE. At the Court of Divorce on Saturday, the case of Amott v. Amott and Amott was set down for hearing be fore a special jury. In this case the petitioner was the celebrated draper in St. Paul's-churchyard, and a few months ago he obtained a decree against his wife on the ground of her alleged adultery with her husband's own brother, who was in partnership with him. Before the time came round for the rule to be made absolute the Queen's Proctor made inquiries, and it was now sought to prove that there was collusion between the parties, and the petition ought therefore to be dismissed. It was stated on Saturday by Dr. Tristram, on behalf of the petitioner, that his client would consent to the petition being dismissed. The Attorney-General, who appeared for the Queen's Proctor, said he presumed the Court would have no objection to this course being adopted. The Judge Ordinary said there would be no objection to this, and the petition was accordingly dismissed. ALLEGED ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF AN IRON STEAMER. But the time is come for deeds, not words, and the French soldiers will not be very bcvere critics of the Imperial styl e . With the Prussian s i n _ s ight they will forget even that most unlucky reference to Mexico. No one doubts the courage of French Idiers. No one doubts that they understand-when are well led. Probably the presence of Marshal DAC:MAHON inspires them with more confidence than the appeal to the memories of Mexico. The time is come when generalship will count for more than rank, when skilfulness in manoeuvre and valour in combat will avail more than any name, even than that of BONAPARTE itself. In truth this has been shewn already. Prince NAPOLEON was •to have had a command in the North, but (a French journal is our authority) • " the entire body of officers, held a meeting and protested against his Highness's appointment; and General fnocitu, second in command, carried this remon strance to the EMPEROR, who instantly suppressed his cousin's commission and granted the chief autho rity to his subordinate." Shnultaneously we learn that Admiral BOUET WILLAUMEZ, who com mands the French fleet in the Baltic, in sisted that the Prince should have no control over the military perations at sea. Evidently French soldiers, while quite willing to pay respect to the EMPEROR, are not at all willing to commanded by Prince "PLON PLON" who eleven years ago always arrived in the Italian battlefields just in time to be too late. His cousins will leant from this incident that much depends upon their personal prowess. lithe invalid of 02 and the boy of 14, who arrived at Metz on Thursday, should quail before the zundnadelv ovehr it may go hard with the .BoNArAßTES.—Eastern Morning .Nows. BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. At the Nottingham Assizes on Thursday, the case of Walker v. Summerby, as already briefly announced, was heard. It was an action for breach of promise of mar riage. The promise and breach were not denied, but it was, in fact, a question of damages. The plaintiff and defendant first became acquainted while the plaintiff was at a school where the defendant's sister was also a pupil. In. 1866, when they were both about 21 years old, they became engaged to one another. They wrote to each other regularly and visited. The de fendant gave the plaintiff an engaged ring. The plaintiff went to be governess in the family of a Mrs. Parr. The visits still continued. The defendant wished to be mar ried "on the sly," but the plaintiff refused. In the be ginning of 1868 he left off writing to her. The plaintiff then wrote the following letter : "January, 1868. `; Dear George,—Having been engaged to ymi for nearly two years, and never having given you any cause of offence, I am quite at a loss to understand the meaning of your conduct since I have been in Grantham : 1 noN; think I am fully justified hdemandingTan explana tion, and no honourable man would refuse to give it. I should •like to see you before I leave, which will be in a few days. lam now housekeeper. Aunti and her friends are gone into the country to visit. If you will not come here, will you meet me at Aunt Dyer's ? Write, and ap point the ti me an d pl ace . Oh , G eorge, I nee d scarcely tell you how wretched I feel. I little thought when I left Nottingham I should spend such miserable holydays. " I remain, yours affectionately, " NELLIE." To this letter defendant did not send any answer. The defendant told the plaintiff that his parents ob jected to the match because she had no money ; but he should soon be in partnership, and then he would marry her. The plaintiff had suffered a good deal both in mind and body since the engagement had been broken off. The defendant's father died worth £3,000 in personalty and £ll,OOO in reality. His business returns were about £7OO a year. The defendant's share of the property was nearly £4,000. The defendant was called and stated that he wished to marry the plaintiff, but his parents were opposed to it, and he hid tried to remove their objections. £750. e jury found a ve r di c t f or th e -pl a i n tiff. Damages, THE ARMY AND NAVY. PICIC} S NAPOLEON TO HIS .\PIII7. NAPOLEON has not a bad pen, but it has tripped strangely in the at dress to the army which was issued at Metz on Thursday. he Emimuoit honestly admits the high military•character of the opponent with whom the French f. woe is about to cross swords, honestly allows that the :cone of operations is "lull of iortressesandolstacles ; but when he goes On to say that "nothing is too difficult for the soldiers of Africa, the Crimea, China, Italy, and Mekico," some of the relerences are, to say the least; unfortunate. In the Crimea, no doubt, the French did well, thanks in some measure to - British arms. Doubtless, too, the French soldiers prevailed over the Arabs of Algeria, and the Chinese with their dummy guns. But " Italy," "Mexico"! We had always sup posed that NAPOLEON sheathed his sword on the very morrow of Solferina, rather than attempt to over come the " fortresses and obstacles " which barred the way from " the Alps to the Adriatic," and which were known to all the world under. the name of the Quadrilateral. We had thought, too, that INTAroixoN had withdrawn his brave troops from Mexico, choos ing to let his Latin Empire tumble to pieces, aid his poor puppet of an Emperor perish at the hands of the military executioner rather than run the risk of a quarrel with the United States. It is NAPo- I. EON'S OWII Wilt if, instead .4. Iris trOON --~ —Jet. (J. 'We nasty peace .• . an l murdered MAXIMILIAN at Quere taro. Noris the reference to the " glorious traces of our lathers" altogether happy. Close to the frontier lie the fortresses and the rich coal fields which belonged to France sixty years ago, which do not belong to her now. Landau and Saarlouis may be re-entered by the French army immediately ; but this is only the beginning of the war, and there may be another Waterloo in store which will restrict France with'n even narrower limits than the present. French soldiers may believe the penultimate sentence of this proclamation; but though the eyes of the world are undoubtedly upon tie French army, Englishmen will find it hard to see how "the fate of liberty and civilization depends upon our - (tit* French) success." So far as appears at present this war was undertaken in order to divert the march of the French people towards liberty and civilization, which was too rapid to please the embodiment of personal government. THE SECRET TREATY. TnE more the Secret Treaty becomes public, the less is it able to bear publicity. Its very existence was denied at first by the Government most deeply implicated in it. When it became clear, beyond all dispute, that the Treaty was not a forgery,. but actually was set down in black and white, the Paris journals attributed its author ship to Count BISMARCK. That position had to be given up when it was made manifest that this docu ment was in the handwriting of M. BENEDETTI. The next movement in retreat was very awkwardly executed, and certainly did not improve the French position. This Treaty in the handwriting of the French Ambassador; was written at the dictation of the Prussian Premier! A glance_at the contents of the document was sufficient to prove the absurdity of that statement. The proposals of the Treaty were overpoweringly in favour of France; Prussia was offered the moral support of France while working its will in South Germany, provided France was allowed to annex Luxemburg and to conquer Belgium. This was on a par with the pro posal that France would send 300,000 troops against Austria in 1866 if Prussia would cede the Moselle and Rhine provinces of Germany to France. So far as the Luxemburg and Belgium proposal is concerned, we have Count BISMARCK'S statement that he has reason to know t h at this proposal would have been made again within the last few days, and but for its publication in the Times, Prussia would have been asked to make peace and join her army to that of France in order to over run Belgium, and to bid defiance to the other pro tecting Powers, England, Austria, and Russia. Whether 131smAncies statement be well founded or not it is all but certain—and . the Cologne Gazette now lying before us asserts it as an incontro vertible fact—that the proposal was made last year, when the dispute about the Belgian railways turned up. We find no difficulty in believing our contem porary, for we remember only too - well how bitter were the reproaches hurled against Belgium in the spring of 1869 by the Paris press, how eagerly the wolf was seeking a cause of quarrel with the lamb. We are promised more revelations with respect to 'his most scandalous affair. On the one side they seem to be forthcoming without difficulty or hesi tation. BISMARCK is ready almost every day with some fresh surprise, some new and startling piece of evidence. On the other band the communications we receive from Paris are tardy, inconsistent, and contradictory. More than one exculpatory statement has had to be withdrawn; we have no security that others will not share the same fate. We suspect that future efforts will be of the to quoque kind. France will not be able to resist the over whelming evidence convicting her of shameful treachery towards friendly Powers, so she will endea vour to make out that her accuser is as bad as she is. It is possible that this may be the case ; but as yet there is no proof of it. That BISMARCK may have listened to BENEDETTI'S proposals is possible; but that he ever meant to entertain them seriously does not appear probable, when we remember his decisive conduct with regard to Luxemburg and the Belgian railways. We are disposed to think that so far as he entertained the French ambassador's scheme at all it was in order to place him thoroughly in the wrong. If that was Brs , mmicK's object he has most completely succeeded. See what has happened. France, in the person of either the EMPEROR or BENEDETTI, first proposed to attack Austria with 300,000 men, and thereby has estranged from her that power. Then she proposed to seize Luxemburg and Belgium, thereby making, if not enemies, at least " cold, very cold ' friends of England and Russia (who are pledged by treaty to uphold the integrity of. Belgium), to say nothing of Belgium and Holland themselves. France offered, if this proposal were accepted, to allow Prussia to work her will in South Germany, and thus showed the falsehood of her pretended regard for the interests of the States Aouth of the Mein. Finally, for we must not lose sight of Prince NAPO LEON'S proposal to take Piedmont and the French cantons of Switzerland, France has intensified the hostility against her which has been felt in Italy ever since Mentana, and has evoked an army of observation upon the raLco-Helvetian frontier, TT'estertt liorning News. Next Friday is fixed for the trial of Sir Henry Edwardes at the York assizes for bribery.