The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-24 00:00:00

MONETARY REP ORIS-v - ESTERDAY. The receipt of low prices from Paris, and the absence of any improvement in the condition of the growing crops have combined to produce an uneasy feeling in the stock markets, which a preponderance of sellers over pur chasers has tended to intensify. Consols have been flat, at yesterday's reduced quotations, viz.:-92, 92/ ex-div. for delivery, and 92/, 92g ex-div. for July. Reduced and New Three-per-Cents 92k, 92/. Exchequer bills 2s. to 6s. prem. Bank stock has marked 234, 236. Indian Five per-Cents have been done at m, and India bonds at 21s. to 265. prem. The market for railer• y stocks has again been flat. The principal movements have been in Metropolitan, which at one time fell to 69g, but subsequently recovered to 6p4, being a fall of on the day. Caledonian is lower at 67k, Great Eastern k, at 46/ ; Midland k, at 1308 ; London and North-Western k, at 1291; North-Eastern /, at 144/ ; Great Western /, at 71i ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire k, at 51i. Indian railway stocks have been quiet, but prices have been maintained. In Canadian shares the transactions have been to a very moderate extent, at about yesterday's closing quotations. Foreign shares have been quiet. Lombards 16 3-16. The market for foreign bonds has been depressed, and the movements have been unfavourable. Spanish have been flat and lower, and the New Loan has receded to Ito 1i prem. Italian at 58i are * lower, and Turkish Five per Cents. *at 52g. The Japanese Loan has fallen or to 4 to 31,- dis. The Russian Loan is quoted at 2. to fi prem ; the Buenos Ayres at lto 1i prem. ; and the Hon duras at 21 to 2$ prem. American Government Securities have been flat, and lower. Erie shares and Illinois Central have fallen Bank shares have been quiet, but without movement. Telegraph shares have been in limited request. Prices however, have been steady, and Falmouth, Gibraltar have risen i t . Telegraph Construction shares at 27i are better. As regards miscellaneous securities Hudson's Bay shares have been lower, at 12k, 122, otherwise prices have been without change. The sum of £13,000 has been sent into the Bank to day. The Clearing House return for the. week ending June 22 shews a total• of £74,755,000, against £61,017,000 for the corresponding period last year. At a meeting of the Colonial Company, the directors report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum was declared. A meeting has been held of the Ebbw Vale Company. It was shown that the net profit for the year had been £111,298, and that the amount available for distribution had been £117,557. A dividend of 20s. per share was declered, making a return for the year of 30s. per share, and a balance of £5,844 was carried forward. The report of the Australian Company, to be presented on the 29th inst., shews an available balance of £31,188, out of which the directors recommend a dividend of 40s. per share, being at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, free of income-tax. The £6,000 carried last year to Property Reserve Account will be applicable to losses which must be looked for in consequence of the late disastrous harvest. The return of the Bank of England shews the follow ing results when compared with the previous week :—An increase in circulation of £34,998 ; an increase in public deposits of £692,697 ; a decrease in other deposits of £1,001,342; a decrease in other securities of £969,063; an increase in bullion of £631,832 ; an increase in rest of £6,412 ;an increase in reserve of £697,922. The circula tion, including bank post bills, is now £22,236,031; public deposits amount to £11,858,862, and private deposits to £16,341,433. The securities held represent £32,705,168 ; and the stock of bullion is £21,549,665. The rest stands at £3,118,507. No alteration has been made in the official minimum to-day, which still remains at 3 per cent. In the general market to-day there has been a moderate supply of capital. The demand for accommodation has not been active, but the rates have ruled firm, and Three-months' paper has been charged fully 24 to 3 per cent. Paris advices state that the proposed loan for £20,800,000 for the city of Paris has been approved by the committee of the Legislative Body on the Budget. It will be issued on the same form, and on the same condi tions as the previous loans. The following is fiom the Levant Herald of the 14th inst. : The general impressionwas that the terrible fire which has destroyed more than half of Pera would have utterly paralysed all local commercial transactions for the time being. Strange to say, the result has been different. It is true that many outstanding debts which were good on the eve of the fire have become bad or doubtful since ; but, on the other hand, the destruction of the immense quan tity of articles of all kinds has given rise to a great and general demand, and sales have been unusually brisk in consequence. It has been notified that the governor and committee of the Hudson's Bay Company intend to recommend that the £300,000 received from the Dominion of Canada be returned to the shareholders, but that in the present uncertain state of affairs at Red River they do not propose to declare a dividend at the ensuing meeting. The traffic return of the South Western Railway for the past week chews an increase of £3,732, compared with the corresponding period last year ; on the Great Northern Railway the increase was £2,020 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire £3,413 ; on the Bristol and Exeter £844 ; and on the Caledonian £1,788. On the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, there was a decrease of £594, and on the Great Eastern of £166. LONDON 6TOUIi E X ORA NG E- YESTERDAY. LATEST PRICES ----AFT: tIVERNMENT Three pc! ("eat Consols 92j 92ixd Do. for Account Three per Cent ltded 92i 92 1 New 3 per Cent Excheiner Bills.lll arch, 2'B lull Do., June Bank Stock India 5 per Cents llO/1115xd. Cau.6pcJan.&JulylB77-84 10741085 Do. 5 per cent do. 98i 994 Domin. of Can. 5p c 1903 975 985 New S. N. 5p c 1871-76 102 103 New Zealand 6 pc 1891.. 112 114 Do. 5 per cent 9951005 Do. 5 p c Consolidated Queensland 5 p c 1882 Victoria 6p c Jan.& July 115 110 D 0.5 nc do. 104 1045 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Great Eastern Great Northern Do. A Great Western MAIL' . 8d 88 . 77 77i . 40 408 .. 122 123 . 132j133 Lancashire & Yorsshire 133'134 L. D. and South Coast 43# 431 Lon. Chat., fi.rd Dover ISA 16 Lou. and N orth-Western 129#129i Lon. and South-Western 91 02 Man., She., and Lincoln 511 32 Metropolitan 691 70 Met. biAriet Midland 28 - 29 13011303 Northßritish North-Eastern Consols 14 4 .1441 Do. York — 'ER OFFICI AL HOURS. SECU RITIES, !Brazilian, 1865, 5 p c 9ll 921 r Egyptian, 1868, 7 p c 82 828 'Do. Rail. Debeu., 7 p c 10151025 Italian, 1861, 5 per cent 584 584 Peruvian, 1865, 5 per cent 915 928 Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c 335 34 Russian, 1866, 5 p c 935 915 Do. Nicolas, 4 per cent 6BB 698 Spanish, 1867, 3percent 315 314 Do., 1869, 3 per cent Turkish, 1851, 6 per cent 81 89 Do., 1865, 5 per cent 524 525 Do., 1865, 6 per cent 735 74 U. S. 5-20 Bonds, 6pc 1883 905 905 Do., 1865 Do., 10-40 Bonds, spc 1901 Erie Slia.. 100 dole. all pd. 185 185 WAYS, South-Ea.steru 76 77 ‘i B 80m.,13ar., &CI. Ind.g.s pc 1071 . 1081 East India guar. 5 p c ll3 111 Grand Trunk of Canada 141 151 Do, Ist Preference Bonds 65 66 Great Indian Pen. g. 5 p c 108 109 Great Western of Canada 151 151 Madras g. 5 pc 10841091 Scinde, Delhi, do. Sciude, Punjaub, do lO6/1074 Dutch Rhenish 241 25 Eastern of France Great Luxembourg l4l 141 Northern of France Ottom. (Sinyrn ato A idin) 61 6 Recife and San Francisco 151 161 San Paulo (L.) guar. 7p a 21 211 S. Aus. Sc Loin. Veneta. 161 161 BANKING COMPANIES. Pa Agra Bank IL) A .... 11 11) 10 1 Imperial Ottoman 4ipm Alliance (Limited) .. 148 158 20 Lon.Cnar. of A nstrlia 23h 24) Anglo-Austrian .... 15 17 pm 20 London and County 50 51 A nglo-Egyptn (Lim) 248 248 15 Londo a Joint-Stock 34) 35) British IN orth-Amrcu 54 56 20, Lndn & Wstminstr 62 63 Ch.of India, Australia 17 18 10; Metropoli tan 9 9i Char. Merc. of India 30 31 20'Midland (Limited) 1 dis, par City 11)12)pm 291pJew South Wales .. 39 40 . . Colonial Consolidated (Limtd) / 1 pm ' 25 1 Union of Australia.. 46 47 Eug., Scot. & Aust. 0 17/ 18i 15 Union of London .. 39 4O Imperial (Li. ‘tited) l9 19,1 TELEGRAPU COMPANIES. 10 Anglo - American (L) 81 83 100 Atlantic 3 British Ind. Ex. (L) 61 7 10 British Indn Sub. (L.) 8} Sil 7 Pal, Gibraltar, &c. (L) 91 9i 111SCELLANE0' 10 Great Northern .... 11i 12 25 Indo-European (Lmtd) 14 18 10 Med. Extension (L).. .51 61 20 See. Trans. France (L) .14i 15i SW. India & Panama 7 75 , US SECURITIES. Pd 10 Berlin Waterworks (L) 14t 15} 27, Canada Company 78 80 IO Ce.lon Company (L) 3 2 dis 20 Colonial idis, Ipm 10 , Cred.Foucter of LI (L) 2g 28 100 Crystal Palace 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 5 6 pm 78, Gen. Cred. & Dsct pm 14!Con. Stni Navigation 29 31 Hooper's Tel. Works lB ; dis Pd 51. Rbbr, G P Tel. Wks. 46i 47i 100 Intr. Financial (L) 1 dis 5 Mdras Irrigton g. 5 p c 104 105 5 National Discount IL) 11i 12 50 Ocean Marine 20 Pninslr & Oruti Stm, 42 44 Telegraph Conetran 27i 271 St Tobacco 6 pc Ln, Gus. 5 by Italian Gvrnmut 91 91 Trust & Lu of U Coda pII MINING SHARE LIST.—JUNE 23, Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London Market particularly quiet. Prices merely nominal. Australian United, 21, 21 Bwlch Consols, Brontloyd, Chiverton Moor, 42, 51 Chiverton Valley, Cook's Kitchen, 21, 23 Chontales (Gold), Drakewalls, Don Pedro North Del Itey, 22, 3 East Bassett, East Caradon, 4 , 41 East Lovell, 35, 36 East Wheal Grenville, 21, 25 Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), 198, 21s General Brazilian, Great Laxey 181, 10 Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vor, 91, 10 Hingston Down, Marke Valley, 7, 7} New Lovell, 22, 3 North Crofty, 32, 31 North Treskerby, Pacific, 81, 93 Prince of Wales, 15s, 17s 6d Providence Mines, 40, 41 Rosewall Hill and Ransome United, South Condurrow, Tankerville, 171. 18 Tincroft, Tan-yr-Allt, Taquaril (Gold). Trumpet Consols, Van. 771, 80 Van Consols, 3i, 4 West Chiverton, 55, 56 West Frances, West Maria and Fortescue, 2f, 21 West Drakewalls, West Caradon, West Panty Go, West Seton, Wheal Agar, 21, 3 Wheal Chiverton, Wheal Grenville. 21, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Ann, 9, 10 Wheal Seton MARKETS. LONDON TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY. —The market is quiet. Y.C., Spot, and month, 455. 9d. per cwt. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS, THURSDAY.—For sugar there has been very litte inquiry, and the value of low qualities has had a drooping tendency. Coffee has been very steady, and notwithstanding large supplies, prices are maintained. The sales of tea have passed off with spirit, at full currencies. Rice has been firm. White Bengal 12s. ; Banana, 18s. 6d. ; Rangoon, Bs. to 9s. 6d. per cwt, LONDON OIL MARKET, THURSDAY.—Linseed has been firm, but quiet, at 31s. 6d. spot. Rape has been dull and drooping. English brown, spot, 435. 3d. Palm oil is flat, fine Lagos, 395. LONDON METAL MARKET, THURSDAY.—Iron is quieter. Tin is steady ; Straits, £133 10s. to £134 ; Banca, £135. Copper is in request ; English tough cape £73. LONDON WOOL MARKET, THURSDAY.—The attendance of buyers at the public sales of colonial wool has continued good. Home manufacturers have operated freely, but the quantity taken for export has been very moderate. Prices have ruled firm. English wool has been steady, at previous quotations. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, THURSDAY. —Only moderate supplies were on sale at the market to-day. The demand was firm, at the annexed quotations :—Prime meadow hay, 110 s. to 1205.; inferior ditto, 85s. to 955. ; prime clover, 1355. to 1455. ; inferior ditto, 115 s to 1255. ; prime second-cut clover, 115 s. to 1255. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; and straw, 245. to 30s. per load. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKETS, THURSDAY.--The supplies of new potatoes have been good of foreign moderate. The trade has been quiet, as follows :—New English regents, Os. 6d. to 7s. ; Scotch regents, Os. 6d. to 7s. ; and rocks, 6s. 6d. to 7s. per cwt. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, TIIIIRSDAY.—About an average supply of beasts was on sale here to-day. The demand was inactive, and the tendency of prices was in favour of buyers. With sheep the market was heavily supplied. Sales progressed slowly, and the quotations were barely maintained. Lambs were dull and drooping. Calves and pigs were in limited request. Beasts sold at from 3s. 2d. to ss. ; sheep, 3s. to ss. 4d. ; lambs, 6s. to 6s. Bd. ; calves, 3s. 10d. to ss. Bd. ; and pigs, 4s. 6d. to ss. Bd. per 8 lbs. - to sink the offal. Total supplies :—Beasts, 760; sheep and lambs, 14,220; calves, 707 ; and pigs, 60. Foreign :—Beasts, 170: sheep and lambs, 3,700 ; and calves, 551. BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, THURSDAY.—At this ma ket to-day there was a large supply of English and foreign wheat, and both were from is. to 2s. per qr. dearer Barley, oats, and peas were is. per qr. dearer. Beans were unaltered. MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is no improvement to note in our market to-day ; and any business doing is on the most limited scale. Prices and quotations, how ever, considering the smallness of the amount of transactions that are being entered into, remain comparatively steady, ex cepting in those instances where the orders on hand, especially for piece goods, are nearly completed. in these cases rather lower prices, if offered, would be accepted. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THIIRSDAY.—This market opens quiet to-day. Sales probably 8,000 hales. BRISTOL CATTLE MARKET, THIIRSDAY.—The supply of beef at the Bristol Cattle market to-day was good, and the de mand being brisk it was all sold. The prices ran as follows :- 70s. to 725. top per cwt. ; secondary, 655. ; inferior, 565. to 60s. The supply of mutton was large, and a goodly number of lambs were in the market. The trade was about the same as last week, and nearly all the animals were sold. The top price for mutton was 7id. ; for lamb, Bd. to 9d. In store cottle and store sheep trade was dull, the exceedingly dry weather making farmers un willing to buy. BRADFORD TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY. —The prices ob tained at the Doncaster market last Saturday were higher than was expected, and staplers have consequently been enabled to maintain the value of all goods. Buyers prefer to operate chiefly in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and similar wools, which combine quality with brightness and depth of growth. The increasing firmness of mohair does much to stimulate the demand for these wools. But all ordinary wools particularly half-breds and Downs, have a very slow sale, and the rates are declining. The export yarn trade is still very in animate. Buyers hold off, in the hope that a decline in wool may bring prices down. Spinners* hitherto have been neces sarily firm, and the comparative briskness of the home trade helps to uphold quotations. Nothing new has transpired in the piece trade. Machinery now generally employed; but new business is seldom done. Prices keep steady, although cotton is so flat. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The market to day is easier, at 605. Bd. and 60s. 7d. a month. The buyers asked at the latter quotation ; sellers held out for the former. The cash price (a nominal quotation) is 60s. 3d. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, THURSDAY.—There was an ordinary supply of cattle at this market to-day, but many of them were of secondary quality. The demand was rather dull. Prices were the same as last week, viz. :—Top current, 70s. to 725. per cwt. ; secondary, 675. to 68s. ; middling and inferior, 555. to 635. There was a larger number of sheep and lambs there than last week, but many of them, particularly the lambs, were of middling quality. Good sorts were in demand, and last week's prices were readily obtained. Superior qualities were rather cheaper. White-faced, top, 10d. per lb. ; secondary 9d. to *I. per lb. Blackfaced, top, 10d. per lb. ; secondary, 9d. to 91{1. per lb. Clipped, top, Bid. to Bd. per lb. Lambs, top, 28s. to 325. each ; secondary, 225. to 245. each ; inferior, 15s. to 20s. each. At the close a fair clearance of all kinds was effected. CORK BUTTER MARKET, THIIRSDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 112 s. ; seconds, 109 s. ; thirds, 105 s. ; fourths, 993. ; fifths, 755. ; sixths, 555. 2,230 firkins in the market. Mild cured firsts, 115 s. ; seconds, 113 s. ; thirds, not quoted ; 230 firkins in the market. BIRMINGHAM IRON MARKET, TAURSDAY.—There was a large attendance of ironmasters on 'Change to-day. The pros pects of tho South Staffordshire iron trade are considered very hopeful, and the trade for the present is better than for many months past. Owing to the weather the puddlers are not able to make such full time as in the cooler seasons ; but allowing for this, the furnaces are exceptionally busy. The orders for manu factured iron are well sustained, and pigs are firm. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, TEIIIRSDAY.—The supply of all sorts of stock at this market . to -day was larger than last week. 'The demand was dull for each sort. Prices were the turn lower for everything. Top oxen, 70s. per cwt.; secondary, 655. to 675. per cwt.; middling, 565. to 60s. per cwt. Sheep, 7d. to 81d. per lb. Lambs, 9d. to 10d. per lb. There were 1,200 cattle, and 5,000 sheep and lambs in the market. THE PROPERTY LAW IN JERSEY. Persons who contemplate purchasing landed property in the island of Jersey will do well to meditate on the follow ing case, which was heard before the Royal Court of that island on Monday :—One Edward Manger, a farmer, occupying his own land, having fallen into pecuniary dif ficulties in the year 1868, took the benefit of the law on the " Remise des Biens." By this law a person obtains protection from legal process for a period vary ing from three to twelve months; to enable him to pay his creditors. If he fails to do so two of the judges are appointed to sell the property, and pay all the debts due upon it. In virtue of this arrangement the two judges appointed sold a portion of Manger's property to one Mr. Philip le Sueur, for the sum of £6O, and applied it in the discharge of a portion of the liabilities. Before they could sell the remainder, however, a d6cret (fiat of bankruptcy) was issued against the property by M. Hocquard, who had a mortgage on it. According to the Jersey law, all property purchased within a prescribed period anterior to a cl4cret must revert to the original estate for the benefit of all the creditors, no matter how safely the purchase may have been made. In this in stance Mr. Le Sueur purchased from the two judges appointed by the court to sell the pro perty, and naturally expected he was making a sure bargain. Not so, however. Mr. Hoc quard stepped in and asked the court to annul the deed of sale as being invalid in the eye of the law. The Court decided that as the remainder of the estate was not sufficient to satisfy the claims of the creditors, the deed must be annulled. The Attorney-General, who pleadedfor Mr. Le Sueur, asked what his client was to do to recover the purchase money which he had paid to the two members of the court. The bench made no reply to the question, and Mr. Le Sueur was left to meditate on the glorious uncer tainty of the property law of Jersey. RAILWAY COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTS. The Select Committee bf the House of Commons, ap pointed to inquire into the law respecting compensation for accidents occurring on railways, met again yester day, Mr. Headlam in the chair. Mr. Joseph Brown, Q. C, (of the Home Circuit), was the first examined. In reply to the chairman •he statad his opinion that the railway companies of the country had great reason to complain of the law in this matter, and that the law had operated to a considerable extent to encourage imposture and fraud. He would exempt railway companies from responsibility where it was proved that they had taken the greatest pre cautions to ensure safety, except in certain cases. For instance, if a man were driving a cart over a line, and a train ran over and killed him, and a passenger were also killed through the same cause of obstruction he would hold the company irrespon sible, but they should be responsible for the passengers. In regard to the question of insurance, he considered it more desirable that the companies should insure third-class passengers more than those in the second and first classes, because they were the least able to bear the consequences of loss by accident. He thought all compensation in case of accident ought to bear some proportion to the profits of the company, derived from the traffic. Upon the suggestion that independent medical men should be appointed by the Board of Trade to make inquiries into claims for injuries, the witness thought a private inquiry of that nature would not give satisfac tion to the parties ; that if appointed at all, they should be something like a coroner, lawyer, and doctor rolled into one, and hold a public inquiry. Mr. Forbes, manager of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, gave some particulars as to the practlce of the law with regard to accidents on the Continent. Having had considerable experience on the Continent where most stringent and minute laws hre enforced in the working of railways, he was satisfied that they did more harm than good, and he therefore deprecated any more strict supervision by the Government, as likely to diminish rather than ensure safety. He had always considered it an anomaly that the amount of liability of railway companies did not bear some propor tion to the premium paid ; and he thought insurance would be reasonable and advisable. He also thought that the fares should be reduced through out the kingdom if the responsibility were ssmewhat re duced. The number of passengers carried by the London, Chatham, and Dover Company during last year was 690,000 both ways, that is, about 1,100 a day, and during two years and a half there had only been three accidents. In speaking upon the question of punishing drivers and guards for being behind time, he stated that a great many of the accidents ' occurring through lateness of trains were primarily caused by passengers arriving at the stations late with frequently a quantity of luggage. Mr. Forbes proceeded to state that the liability of rail way companies in some of the United States—such, as New York and Massachusetts—were limited, $5,000 bein r the limit in case of accident or death. Witness quoted a number of instance of claims and actions for compensation, mostly for trivial accidents, if accidents at all, to illustrate the defective machinery of the law bear ingon such matters, The Manager of the North British Railway explained the system of compensation in Scotland, which was prac tically.the same as in England. The committee then adjourned. Intelligence received from the Indian North-West frontier announces that fresh disturbances have broken out amongst the Wuzerees. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, J kJNE 24, 187 u. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT HEATON. Full particulars of the serious railway accident in the north are given by the Northern Daily Express. That journal says :—lt being " Plate Day ' at Newcastle Races, a number of excursion trains were running along the main line and branches for the Central Station, Newcastle. A train consisting of fourteen carriages, having in them a very large number of excursionists left North Shields at ten o'clock for Newcastle, and reached Walker Station in safety. At that point of the North-Eastern line it is usual for trains bound south, at particular times of the day, to delay going forward and passing the junction below Heaton until the train cominc , from the North has first passed onwards in safety. On this occasion a special excursion train from Berwick to Newcastle, consisting of twenty carriages, was timed to reach the junction about twenty minutes or half-past ten o'clock. The train from Shields, leaving Walker Station, was signalled to " stop" before it got to the junction in consequence of the " excursion " from Berwick being at the moment close up, and making for the " point " precedence being given it "up " to Newcastle by the signalman. Unfortunately the driver of the Shields train either did not observe the signal or expected to pass the junction before the North train came up, the conse quence being that a collision took place. When the Shields train had fairly got abreast the critical point, the engine of the North train ran right into the third carriage of. the branch line train. Neither of the trains was going at great speed otherwise more injuries would have been in flicted. As it was four or five carriages of the Shields train were thrown off the line by the for( eof the collisioi, on to the embankment, and shattered to pieces. Then ensued a scene of much confusion. The engineman of the Shields train either jumped or was knocked off his engine. and sus tained so much injury that he was subsequently picked up insensible, and at the present time lies in an unconscious state in an upper room at Heaton Station. Some seven or eight other persons, were also injured, none of them, however, very seriously. In the Berwick train, only one passenger was so hurt ai to require immediate medical assistance, and he was accordingly taken to the Newcastle Infirmary. As speedily as possible medical assistance was obtained for the sufferers. Dr. William Murray, Dr. Jeffreason, and Dr. Hume, of Newcastle, beirg quickly in attendance, as well as Dr. Kerr, of the Felling. Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Mitford, Mr. Usher, Mr. Fraser, and other officials connected with the rLlway company were also speedily on the spot, directing the efforts of a large staff of workmen to clear the line, which was effected in about an hour and a half. The traffic on the line was resumed about noon, the line being then clear. One passenger in the Shields train (Henry Wilson of Fisher Hill) although he was one of the occunts of the first compartment of a first carriage, escaped without a scratch, notwithstanding the carriage was almost smashed into pieces the size of matchwood. LAW AND POLICE. PENAL SERVITUDE.—SamueI Lyons, who was convicted at the last Middlesex sessions of stealing a gentleman's watch, at the Great Western Station, Paddington, has been sentenced at the Middlesex sessions to seven years' penal servitude, previous offences of a similar kind being on record against him. OMNIBUS DRIVERS.—Seven omnibus drivers in the ser viee of the London General Omnibus Company have been charged, at Worship-street, with conspiring to injure a small proprietor, by preventing him from running his vehi cles on the road. He began running two omnibuses between Old Ford and the Bank, and for a week met with no opposition, but in the second week the General Company put on six omnibuses to oppose him. These followed him up and down, preventing him from taking up passengers, and carrying on a system of " nursing." The case was adjourned till August, when it will be sent before a jury. SERIOUS CHARGE OF STABBING A HUSBAND AND SON. —Sarah Clarke, aged 59 years, of No. 47, Morris-street, St. George-in-the-East, was brought up on remand before Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police-court, charged with feloniously cutting and wounding her husband and son. The prisoner was is a state of intoxication on the night of the 9th instant, and without the semblanci , of provocation made an attack upon her husband and stabbed him in the left breast, inflicting a dangerous wound, two inches in depth, perforating the lung tissues. The prisoner's son, hearing the noise, went into the room and said, "Oh mother, you have stabbed father," when she immediately attacked her son and stabbed him with a penknife in the thigh. The prisoner was described as a very turbulent woman, and had often threatened to murder her husband and son, especially when drunk. William Leapingwell, house surgeon of the London Hospital, said that the father and son were brought to the hospital, the one suffering from a wound two or three inches in depth on the left breast just by the joint, and the other had a wound on the left thigh about an inch in length, taking a slanting direction. ThCwounds, he should say, were inflicted with the knife produced. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. A LITIGIOUS SPIRIT.—The House of Lords has been engaged in hearing an appeal from the First Division of the Court of Session in Scotland. The simple question raised by this appeal is whether a triangular piece of ground, about eight square yards in extent, is the property of the appellant or of the respondent, both being proprietors of coterminous field, on the northern side of Kinnoull-hill, in the neighbourhood of Perth. The boundary is a straight line ; the ground falls within the property of the respondent. If it diverges to the west at a certain point and runs along a certain line it falls within the appellant's . property. It is stated that the land in question is not of the value of ss. per annum, but the object of the appellant, however, is to have a line of road leading to his property of the uniform. width of ten feet, otherwise the entrance to the appel lant's land will not allow of the free ingress and egress of waggons, &c., belonging to him. THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND HIS LONDON MANSION. —The case of "Davis v. Sir E. Antrobus, Bart., Lord de Talby, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, -and others " has been before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. James. The defendants are trustees of the late Duke of Newcastle, who by his will left the London family mansion, situated in Carlton-house-terrace, to his trustees, with directions that the use and occupation of it should be offered to his son, the present duke, during his life, on condition that he paid the rent and observed all the covenants apper taining thereto. The mansion had been offered to, and accepted by, the •present duke; but his lordship having omitted to pay the rent, it was contended by the trustees that a forfeiture of the tenancy had taken place, and the mansion passed to remainder. After argumthits had been heard pro and con, it was stated that another case bearing on the same property was now pending in the Rolls Court ; and under those circumstances the Vice-Chancellor declined to give any decision on the question which had been raised, intimating also the desirability of both causes being brought on for investigation before himself simul taneously. A CURIOUS INSURANCE QUESTION.—The Court of Com mon Pleas has given judgment in a singular case arising out of the construction of a policy of insurance. One Thomas Humphrey was assured for £3OO in the Accident Insurance Company, payable, in the event of death, within three calendar months, from accident, such death to be the result of accident or injury by some external and material cause. Mr. Humphrey went into the sea to bathe at Hastings, and fell in a fit in about a foot of water, where being unable to help himself, he was drowned. His executor, therefore, sought to recover the amount of the policy from the company, who disputed their liability on the ground that the cause of death was the fit and not the accident. An arbitrator, to whom the matter had been referred, found that the cause of death was "suffocation by drowning," but stated a special case for the opinion of the. court on the question of liability, After hearing the arguments, their lordships gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff, who will thus recover £3OO for an accidental death. AN EXTRAORDINARY LIBEL CASE IN HIGH LIFE. The case of Morgell v. Gambier and wife, came before Chief Justice Bovill and a special jury, in the Court of Com mons Pleas, yesterday. The plaintiff is an elderly maiden lady, named Ann Royce Morgell, an d the defendants are Sir Edward and Emily Gambier, uncle and aunt of the plain tiff. Lady Gambier was said to have written certain letters to a married sister, imputing that the plaintiff was a cheat, and had destroyed her brother's will, and therefore came into possession of his property; and to this the defendants pleaded not guilty, and that they did not mean to impute the destruction of the will to her, but that she had fraudulently abstracted certain securities from amonc , the effects of her deceased brother at Versailles, and was to that extent a cheat.—Sir John Karslake, Q. C. , said that plaintiff brought the action in consequence of the unjustifiable imputations cast upon her. He then detailed the circumstances of the plaintiff's case, which may be thus summarised. In 1861 she was living at Versailles with her brother, Major Morgell. In early life she had spent all her means in advancing a younger brother, who entered the service of the King of Portugal and died there. She had been compelled to earn her living as a governess ; but afterwards obtained a sum of money from the Portuguese Government as prize money due to her brother. Major Morgell invested this money for her, keeping the securities and paying her the dividends. On his death, his effects were to be sealed up by the juge de la paix ; but that officer told her that she might first take away any of her own property. She accord ingly removed her own securities, but nothing else. Under her brother's will she took considerable interest in his property. It was upon this that Sir Edward Gambier by his plea thought he had a right to describe his wife's relative as a " cheat." Among other documents in the case was a will made by Major Morgell, leaving a part of his property to certain charities; but on his death it was found to be cancelled by the Major having cut off his signature. The will which was propounded made no reference to the charities. Lady Gambier's sister, a Mrs. Earle, quarrelled with her ladyship, and became dependent on the plaintiff, who allowed her £lOO a year. In 1867, in consequence of cer tain rumours, an action for slander was commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendcnts, but abandoned on defen dants making a statutory declaration that they had not uttered the slanders complained of. Some months afterwards however, Mrs. Searle forwarded to plaintiff two letters re ceived from Lady Gambier in 1866 in which the slanders were contained and these formed the ground of the • present action. In one, the writer hoped that her dear " Bidsey " might succeed in " every effort to make that Ann Morgell provide for you and yours. You and ourselves have her in our power. We know all about that will." The other letter stated that the world in general, and their own family in particular, knew that Mrs. Searle had a great command of money ; she had a nugget entirely at her disposal, and worked it advantageously for her self and children ; but she did not work it righteously if she left unpaid a debt to another relative, and allowed Sir Edward to pay a certain insurance. The learned counsel commented severely upon this advice to Mrs. Searle, to " put the screw " upon the plaintiff, with the view of extorting money on a supposed knowledge of some fraud committed by her.-1 - .1 reply to his Lordship, the Solicitor-General said he represented the defendants, and he must say a more unjustifiable action never was brought. He must fight it to the end, and he had a com plete ans'iver to it. The examination of witnesses was then proceeded with. According to a statement of the Courrier of Con stantinople as many as 2,030 persons were lost in the fire. _ _ --- The reports from the Braemar Moors give favour able accounts of the grouse prospects for the coming season. Everywhere it would appear that the birds are plentiful and healthy, and no appearance of any disease, while the weather is admirably adapted for the preserva tion and maturity of the young progeny. THE HEAT.—The excessive heat of the weather combined with the exposure to the glowing heat of the furnaces, caused a number of men in the iron works in the South Staffordshire district to leave their work on Wed nesday morning. It is stated that, a number of the puddling furnaces will be let down till the weather be comes cooler again. Sir Joseph Neale M'Kenna, in reference to the statement that bills had' been filed in Chancery against him and other former directors of the National Bank, writes to say that he is prepared to prove the proceedings understood to be complained of to have been strictly cor rect, and that he undertakes to chew that every 'act of his in connection with the bank has been done for its benefit and protection, and will bear the test of investigation before any court in any proceedings to which he is made a party. THE POPE ON LIBERAL CATHOLICS.—The Univers publishes the reply of the Pope to the allocution which Cardinal Patrizzi addressed to him on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his election to the Papacy. In this the Pope expresses himself strongly against the Liberal Catho lics and against certain bishops' sentinels established by God to watch over the safety of the people who forget their duty to the Church, in order to follow the theories of the age. He adds that the evils and errors have not yet reached their limit. There are some who burn incense to the goddess of real on, and will not submit their judgment to faith, nor allow that science should be governed by revela tion, others who do not go so far as that live under the tyranny of certain men who revere what they call public . opinion, even when it is opposed to what is right, just, or holy, a great part of the errors of our time proceed from igno rance, but who can dissipate that ignorance or lighten that darkness, except the Holy See and its devoted fol, lowers? They alone can eradicate the errors which dwell in the minds of those who do not. recognise the tendency' of certain principles and the peril of certain doctrines. THE NEW YORK PRESS ON CHARLES DICKENS. It will be the glory of Charles Dickens, when his fame comes to be fairly weighed, not that he has created some of the most beautiful and by far the most humorous cha racters in English fiction ; not that he has drawn scenes of real life with a vividness no artist ever attained before, but that he has acquired such an absolute mastery • over the human heart that we take his ideal men and women at once to our bosoms, and make every one of his books a gallery of our personal friends. Little Nell is not the most beautiful creation in our literature by any means ; but is any other loved so well ? " Oliver Twist " is not remarkably good as a novel ; but ever since we read it, thirty years ago, we have been crying for more. Bob Cratchit and his lame child, Bob Sawyer and Mr. Benjamin Allen, Betsy Trot wood and Mr. Dick, Pegotty, Micawber, Pickwick—dear old monarch of them all—these are not for us the airy fictions of the brain, but flesh and blood friends whom we love with all our hearts and hope to meet some day in this very world. It is the greatness of Dickens that he can inspire us with feelings like these, and no other man has ever done it in an equal degree. Ten or twenty millions of people keep a corner in their hearts for Dickens, because he has seen so perfectly the poetry, the beauty, the hundred lessons which the life of the masses contains, and in all that he has done he has striven for their good. "I have always had and always shall have," said he on his first visit to this country, "an earnest and true desire to contribute as far as in me lies to the common stock of healthful cheerfulness and enjoyment. I believe that Virtue shews quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. I believe that she and every beautiful object in external nature claims some sympathy in the breast of the poorest man who breaks his scanty loaf of daily bread." So in the faith that literature was not for the rich alone, and the noblest work was the work done for the poor, he bent himself bravely to ,his splendid task. Whether battling with the weapons of his wit for the release of poor prisoners or poor school-boys, or humanity for almshouse paupers, or relief • for befogged and plun dered clients, and a public ridden to death by aristocratic office-holders ; or founding a great liberal newspaper in the interest of popular Government and free education ; or refusing with dignity an invitation to attend as an actor the court where he could not be received as a private man, Charles Dickens, without a suspicion of demagoguism, without the affectation of con descending, without uttering One insincere or flattering word, made himself as truly the poet and prophet of the people in prose as Burns was their chosen singer in verse It is for this reason that wherever the English language is spoken Charles Dickens was cherished as a friend. It is for this reason that his death awakens to-day such universal sorrow, and that his name will be. held in sincerely affectionate remembrance to the latest genera tions.—New York Tribune. "In the midst of life we are in death." How impres sively this solemn fact returns upon us as we read the brief details of the grim messenger's call upon Charles Dickens in the midst of the pleasures of a cheerful dinner party ! The news of the sad event in both hemispheres has fallen upon the public mind with the shock of an un expected misfortune ; and yet, considering the brain over worked and the body worn out from the long and exhaust ing strain upon it, this sudden dissolution is not surprig: ing. It is rather to be wondered at that, with so many examples and warnings of this kind constantly occurring around us, we should still cherish the delusion that there are, or ought to be, certain exemptions .from the inexorable laws governing this frail and uncertain earthly existence. Charles Dickens has gone the way of all the earth. His work is done ; he rests from his labours, but he leaves behind him the record of talents industriously employed in his wisely chosen voca tion for the general good of his fellow men, and especially for the amelioration of the sufferings and the righting of the wrongs of those too much neglected classes of modern civilisation, the story of whose lives, honest or criminal, is a desperate struggle for existence. Dickens was a man of genius, but his was not the comprehensive genius of Shakspeare ; nor did he possess the exquisitely beautiful perceptions of character which we find in Walter Scott ; nor the polished sentimentalisms of Bulwer ; nor the analytical descriptive powers of Victor Hugo ; nor the criticai faculties of Thackery ; nor the orientally poetical and philosophical mind of Disraeli. Compare the last work of Dickens, " Edwin Drood," as far as printed, with the latest novel of Disraeli, " Lothair," and the difference will be seen between the limited range of Dickens and the boundless field of thought, instruction, and philosophy opened by Disraeli. In another aspect the contrast between these two writers of fiction is very remarkable. It is the contrast between St. James and St. Giles ; for while the heavy atmosphere of St. Giles prevails in the novels of Dickens, the social air of St. James prevails in the works of Disraeli. Dickens was in his element in his delineations of life among the English low classes, and of the lowest his pictures are the best ; Disraeli is at home among the ruling minds and beauties of the aristocracy, and his range of vision embraces the ruling elements in the social, political, and religious world. The characters of Dickens are individuals, each confined to a narrow and insignifi cant walk ; the heroes and heroines of Disraeli represent the great ideas and questions—political, religious, and social— which are agitating the realms of civilisation. We may, in short, describe Dickens as the graphic, shorthand, verbatim reporter of scenes in low life, and Disraeli as the matured statesman and philosopher, giving us his broad, political, and social views in the disguise of a charming romance. In what, lies the world-wide fame of. Dickens as a literary genius? It lies in his graphic descriptions of low life, in his every day living characters among the struggling masses, good and bad, and in his never-failing purpose to encourage the good, to discourage the bad, to correct abuses against the weak and defenceless, and to create sympathy and kind ness, not only for suffering virtue, but towards the ignorantly or helplessly vicious and unfortunate. He laboured faithfully, though comparatively within a limited sphere. His mind was microscopic, magnifying small thh.gs into things wonderfully interesting ; and it is not in nature that an eye which is microscopic shall possess 'also the powers of the telescope. Charles Dickens, it may be truly said, employed the talents given him wisely and well. So far as we in America are concerned we can truly say that the mistakes Of his first visit were fully, and to the general satisfaction, repaired in his second; that in this country his death will be universally lamented, as his worlvs are universally admired for the good fruits they have borne and still promise to bear; and that many Americans can testify to the attractive social qualities of the man, and to the generous hospitalities they have shared in his hous'e. He lived an industrious and useful life, and he leaves behind him 'a fame and a name which will live respected, fresh and green, for gene rations to come.—New York Herald. The eminent Englishmen of letters whose fame has been acquired, as it were, under our own eyes, and whose works are more or less associated with the events of our lives, are one by one passing away. New authors are constantly appearing in the field, but the few great figures which have been before us almost daily for years past, cannot be - withdrawn without occasioning regrets like those which we experience when old friends are taken from our side. The death of a man like Charles Dickens seem to create a blank in our own existence. It comes upon us with the surprise which death in the household occasions when the one inevitable incident in our un certain lot seems ever new, unnatural, and startling. People of middle age cannot but feel that they have " grown up," as it were, with Charles Dickens. The appearance of each successive story from his pen is linked with a thousand domestic recollections, for he was emin ently the novelist of the household The very manner of his death deepens the sense of personel loss. Sudden death seems. indeed, the docm of the literary . craft. It is but a few years ago that Macaulay was found dead in his room. To Thackeray, also, the last messenger came with out warning. Charles Dickens has been summoned in a moment, while still in the full exercise of his genius and while the early numbers of his last work are engaging the attention of the world. The genius of Dickens was an endow ment which sometimes seemed to surprise himself. He was like a man who finds himself in possession of an unex pected treasure. When still very young he went through much drudgery in a newspaper office, without suspecting that he was destined to achieve for himself a distinct place in English literature, and produce a series •of books which would win for him an illustrious and an unfading name. It was clear that he had an amazing faculty for describing types of men. How many people we have all known exactly like the people who live and move in Dickens's novels ! We are almost convinced that it is our very acquaintance whom the novelist must have had before his eye Micawber, Pecksniff, and the rest of the portraits in that marvellous gallery—Shakspeare himself did not draw truer types of character. The fidelity of the model in each case is attested by the fact that it is found in all countries and among all people, and that there are hundreds of men whom we cannot better describe than by nicknaming them after one of the lay figures in Mr. Dickens' works. One secret of his success in this respect was the laborious manner in which he made his. studies. At a certain period of his life there was no man in London better known to the police than Mr. Dickens. Except Sir Walter Scott, no writer of fiction has ever done so much to while away the weary hours of young and old as Charles Dickens. In lonely places of the earth his books have been an unfailing solace to many an exile, and they have shed hope and light in many a sick room, and comforted many an afflicted heart. Over the whole range of the domestic instincts Mr. Dickens possessed a thorough mastery. There, indeed, was his stronghold. His pictures of "interiors" will be famous while the world lasts. When he described a room, the mere mention of any character who had been intro duced to us in it would afterwards suffice to recall before us the whole picture, even though years might have •passed since we read the novel. Who cannot remember his sketches of the cosy parlours in country inns? He could 'tell us about a poor man's dinner in a way which was capable of imparting fresh zest to the most jaded appetite. When he touched the deep emotions of our nature, his power drew t ears f rom th e l eas t suscep tibl e of mankind. What mother will ever be able, while the world lasts, to lead the story of Little Nell or Paul Dombey with dry eyes ? Who that has lost a child can ever hear those names unmoved? Let us say what we will, the world is not quite the same after a man is taken from it who was gifted with a genius capable of setting before us almost all phases of, human nature. There is a gap which time will cause us to forget, but if the loss to mankind does not create an abiding impression it is only because we know that we ourselves a re not abiding— that let the pictures be what they may, and let he who discloses them to us be ever so gifted, the show .is one which must come to an end. But were this sense more deeply seated even than it is, we could not but realize how much the world loses by the death of a man who possessed the power of layingbare so many secrets of thehuman heart, who could read every aspect of our nature—at once the THE LOSS OF THE CARNATIC. The case of Gilliland v. the Peninsular and Oriental Steam. Navigation Company, was resumed yesterday, in the Court of Common Pleas before Mr. Justice Byles and a special jury. The action was brought under Lord Campbell's Act, by the widow of one of the passengers in the unfortunate steamship Carnatic, which was lost, together with 32 passengers, in the Red Sea last September. The circumstances of the vessel's grounding on the coral reef, and subsequent slipping down into deep water, haVing been 'detailed by the officers and passengers, Sir John Karslake, Q.C., addressed the jury for the defence s con tending that no negligence had been shewn on the part of the officers of the vessel ; and that even if stranding was held to be the result of negligence, it was too remote a cause of death to render the company liable. Mr. Butt, Q.C., replied on behalf of the plaintiff, con tending that on a fine night, like that on which the vessel stranded, with the landmarks visible, if ordinary care and prudence had been exercised, such a disaster could not have happened. The officer who had charge of the watch on the occasion had not been called for the defence, doubt less for a good reason. He also submitted that there was negligence on the part of the captain in not landing the passengers while he could do so in safety, instead of keeping them upon the wreck. His lordship summed up at considerable length, and after reading portions of the evidence, said that the cap tain's certificate had been suspended by the Board of Trade, but the jury ought to put against that his long previous conduct and experience. He left it to them to say whether there was such a want of skill and care in getting on to the reef, as naturally led to the death of the plaintiff's husband. In his view, if they thought there was such want of skill and care, that was sufficient ; but inasmuch as Sir John Karslake contented that the original negligence was insufficient, he should ask them whether there was additional negligence in not landing the 'assengers before Tuesday mi , ir In his o , 'f ueiore Tuesday ..corning. is opinion, L negligence landed them on that reef, and if, without fur ther negligence, they lost their lives, then it was suffi ciently proximate. They must not, however, be guided by his opinion, but use their own judgment. If they found for the plaintiff, then they must assess the amount of damages, and the Act made it necessary for them to to say how much should be given to each of the claimants. Deceased had left a widow and two children—one a girl aged eight, And the other a boy aged five years. He also made an allowance of £4O a-year to his mother. He had left £3OO, and a policy of insurance ; but the insurance company had failed, and therefore the insurance was lost. The jury, after being locked up for twenty minutes, found that there had been fatal negligence both in getting on to the reef and in getting the passengers off. They assessed the damages at £3,000, apportioned as follows : £2,000 to the widow, £4OO to the son, £4OO to the daughter and £2OO to the mother of the deceased. STEAM BOILER EXPLOSIONS. The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the cause and remedy for steam boiler explosions, met yester day for the purpose of taking evidence, Mr. Hick, the member for Bolton, in the chair. Sir W. Farnham, C.E., President of the Manchester Steam Users' Association for the Prevention of steam boiler explosions, was first called and examined. He stated the circumstances which led to the formation of the association. About the year 1833 or 1834, when the high pressure sys tem first came into operation, it was foreseen that steam boiler explosions might become mole frequent than under the low pressure. The association had worked extremely well from its formation, fifteen years ago, and it had been the means of inducing more care than would have otherwise been the case, and the results had been that there had scarcely been the loss of a single life through the explosion. of boilers belonging to members, and had all associations acted on the principles which they had, there would have probably been very few accidents. They made no money and divided no dividends, but simply devoted themselves to the prevention of accidents and inspecting the various boilers of the members of the association, and secur ing them against the pecuniary loss arising from accidents. The honourable baronet, who spoke in so low a tone that it was almost impossible to hear a word distinctly, exhibited to the committee a portion of a boiler employed in a colliery which had collapsed .at 100 pounde pressure, and said that, by an improved con struction of the flue, the boiler became three or four times as strong, because it might be constructed in such a man ner that the tubes could be reduced considerably in length, and therefore the tubes were better able to resist the pressure. A good deal of the boiler explosions took place in consequence of corrosion. There was another important point, and that was the very unsatisfactory nature of the investigations, which took place after an accident had occurred. The juries, as a rule, could form no correct conclusion, and he thought it would be advisable that all such investigations should be attended by some scientific person to advise them. He was of opinion that the mere verdict of accidental death was of no use whatever. By Mr. Fielden : The corrosion in the boiler end took place as well in those parts which were exposed to the action of steam as in those which were in the water. The expense of inspection ought to be borne by the owners. Periodical inspections alone would guard against corrosion. He would test a boiler a little over the pressure at which it was required to be worked and not subject it to any very large strain, because that had a tendency to weaken it. He was of opinion that the boilers should be inspected both exterior and interior every three months. He was in favour of voluntary association rather than Government inspection. He thought that the Government should lay down certain broad principles, and then that they should be carried out by voluntary associations. There was no difficulty in getting good and efficient inspectors. All that was wanted on the part of the Government was the passing of a law by which all boiler owners should have their boilers inspected by some competent persons. He had been president of the Man chester Steam Users Association for fifteen years, and he admitted that the number of boilers they inspected did not exceed 2,000, but he did not think that the voluntary system had failed. There were in the whole country about 50,000 boilers, and the'only way that they could reach them woul d be to make a law of compulsory inspection. The expense ought to be paid by the owner. An owner of six boilers paid 31s. 6d. a year for the inspection. By Professor Lyon Playfair : He would be satisfied by the inspection of a competent engineer, whose competence should be judged of by the boiler owner. Competency would be ea lily ascertained, especially by an association. They could have no other evidence of general competency than the reputation of the engineer himself. Mr. Fletcher, the engineer of the Manchester Steam Users Association was then called and examined, and in reply to the chairman said that he had had great expe rience and paid much attention to the subject of steam boiler explosions since 1861, and had reported on them to the association. Steam boiler explosions were both fre quent and fatal. The number of those killed by boiler explosions exceeded all those killed on all the railways by three times, and there was no reason to suppose they were on the decrease. The steam boiler explosions arose front the simplest causes. Boiler minders were very often unjustly accused where the boiler maker and master were in fault. In point of fact, where the boiler minder was the cause of one explo sion the boiler maker and master were responsible for six. Out of fifty-eight explosions which occurred last year, no less than twenty-six were attributable to the malconstruction of the boiler. He explained that the mal-construction arose from the want of certain seams, hooks, and rivets. He also men tioned that a great many explosions had occurred in the Cornish boilers( which when well made and looked after were the safest in the world and neverburst), in consequence of the obstinacy of the boiler makers, who refused to strengthen them with rings, where the manhole was cut through, and in Lancashire a large proportion of the boilers which burst were constructed on the Cornish principle. Among other causes of boiler explosion he also mentioned defective safety valves. After some further evidence the committee adjourned. most simple and the most complex of problems—and who after amusing us thirty years, died in the prime of life. Yet Mr. Dickens cannot fairly be said to have been overworked for many years past. His closing years were spent in that beautiful part of his native land where many of the scenes in his novels are laid, and where it was his wish when his time came, to die. In his youth he had chosen a home for his mature age, and determined to win it. He succeeded, but the days which are " swifter than a weaver's shuttle" left him little time to enjoy the fruits of his labours. He had known many sorrows, or how could he have written much that stands recorded in his name ? As for his faults, who are we that we should reckon them now ? He is gone, and we all feel that one of the greatest of our number has passed from time, with its defective judgments, to eternity, with its serene and unerring wis dom. Although Charles Dickens is henceforth but a name in the world's history, it is a name lit with imperishable renown, and it will be spoken with gratitude and affec tion as long as our language endures.—New York Times. CHARLES DICKENS ON LITTLE NELL. A New York journal quotes a passage from one of Charles Dickens's speeches at a Boz banquet in Boston during his first visit to America :—" There is one other , point connected with the labours (if I. may call them so) that you hold in such generous esteem, to which I cannot help adverting. I cannot help expressing the delight, the more than happiness, it was to me to find so strong an interest awakened on this side of the water in favour of that little heroine of mine to whom your President has made allusion, who died in her • youth. I had letters about that child, in England, from the dwellers in lo g -huts among the morasses and swampi and densest forests and deep solitudes of the Far West. Many a sturdy hand, hard with the axe and spade and browned by the Summer's sun, has taken up the pen and written to me a little history of domestic joy or sorrow, always coupled, I am proud to say, with some thing of interest in that little tale, or some, comfort o happiness derived from it ; and the writer has alwaY addressed me, not as a writer of books for sale, resident some four or five thousand miles away, but as a friend to whom he might freely impart the joys and sorrows of his own fireside. Many a mother I could reckon them now by dozens, not by units—has done the like ; and has told me how she lost such a child at such a time, and where she lay buried, and how good she was, and how, in this or that respect, she resembled Nell. Ido assure you that no circumstance of my life has given me one hundredth part of the gratification I have derived from this source. I was wavering at the time whether or not to wind up my clock and come and see this country ; and this decided me. I feel as if it were a positive duty, as if I were• bound to pack up my clothes, and come and see my friends; and even now I have such an odd sensation in connection with these things that you have no chance of spoiling me. I feel as though we were agreeing—as in deed we are, if we substitute for fictitious characters the classes from which they are drawn—about third parties, in whom we bad a common interest. At every new act of kindness on your part, I say it to myself : That's for Oliver—l should not wonder if that was meant for Smike —I have no doubt that it was intended for Nell, and so became a much happier, certainly, but a more sober and retiring man than ever I was before." "LOTHAIR '-A MASTERPIECE OF NATION AND PHILOSOPHY. Aristotle gave the first place among works of imagina tion to tragedy, but that was in an age when the stage dealt with the great social, religious, and political problems which agitated the lives of nations. He did not prefer the drama for its form, for its spirit, but for the conse quence and dignity of its themes, for its intimate relation with the higher intellectual life of the people, whom it instructed in the growth of such ideas as seemed great in the history of their race. But since tragedy was sepa rated from that original purpose it has gone downward in the scale. In this age people will not consent to be harrowed by woes with which they have no personal or family sympathy and no deeper interest than that of casual spectators. Intellectually we are all Sybarites, and the stage is a sham. But the relation to popular life that anciently vivified tragedy has not departed from literature altogether ; it has only changed its place, and it has changed it in accordance with the conditions of our time. This change has carried it into the novel. El an age of wide-spread and teeming populations the print ing press is to the masses what the stage was to the far smaller communities of antiquity ; and thus when the poet appears he finds the agencies ready adapted to enable him to get a grander hearing than any of which antiquity could conceive. The use that may thus be made of the familiar form of fiction in vogue among the people is illustrated in " Lothair." Here we see a great thinker, who can write a novel without dwindling to the level of the novel writers in purpose or form, because he has a higher, grander view of his vocation ; and who can treat the loftiest themes of philosophy and statecraft in the easy, graceful, acceptable style that will not only carry them, but make them current and familiar, in places where the dry dis quisitions of the philosopher cannot enter, and the formal utterances of the statesman was unknown. In " Lothair " Mr. Disraeli personifies all the elements and forces of European society; not only as they are, but as they have been for ages. In his pages we see the contest that has rended every people of the Continent still in progress. These are the natural human longing for and tendency towards progress and improvement, and its parasites, the professional organizers of revolutions. There are also the natural religious sentiment and the great institution, the Church that thrives and lives upon it, also too much as a parasite ; and there is society drawn and repelled from one to another, as•each appears attractive or repulsive to its always coloured and prejudicial vision. All are intro duced in their ancient struggle. They struggle through the drama; and the drama settles no point of all that they struggle over, and leaves them struggling still, because it is for the poet or the philosophic historian to present to us his impresssions of reality, to tell the great story and not to take sides, since'he cannot dive into the secrets of fate to say who is right or who wron g . He can tell us that he does not always know who is the hero and who the villain, and riddle so wisely that the parsons shall thank him for a discourse against Rome, while Rome might as well thank him for the statement of her cause against her vilifiers • and aristocracy shall be grateful for the ex posure of the revolution, and the revolution rejoice in his delineation of the crumbling and weakness of aristocracy. The novel is certainly the great form of the age for the teaching of any grand lesson or the delineation of any great character or series of characters in the religious, political, and social life of nations ; and, in this view of it; how pitiful by comparison with such a grand work of imagination as Lothair " are the novels of men like Bulwer and Dickens. Bulwer has no more exalted voca tion than to picture the snobs of British society, evidently always supposing them to be gentlemen ; and Dickens plods on for ever, doing the same thing for creatures that are either brutes or clowns, according to the humour or the moment, becoming under the impulse of fury, com mon cut-throats, or melting in the warmth of coarse sen suality to all the varied comic phases peculiar to the greasiest vulgarity. But what are the elegant fops who dawdle up and down the pages of Bulwer, or all the kit chen maids and thieves of Dickens taken together, with all their vanities, vices, passions, and appetites, that men should care for them or have patience over such pitiful pictures ? The contrast of " Lothair," a masterpiece of imaginative working in the great themes that are vital in every society, will set before the world at a proper value the books of authors without theme or purpose, who draw marionnettes rather than men.—New York Herald. An important novelty is announced at the Gaiety. Mr. Charles Reale has written a new drama for the theatre, and Mr. Hermann Vezin, one of the very best actors on the stage, is announced to play the principal character.—London, Figaro. LADvßismsetaßNY. 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