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On Saturday, August 27, a cheap Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 3.25 and Reading at 4.35 p.m. for Chippenham (fares there and back-Ist class, 155., eovered carriages, 7s. 6d.); Bath (17s. and Bs. 6d.) ; Bristol (20s. and 10s.); returning on Wednesday, August 31. EXCURSION TO READING, OXFORD, (to. On Sunday, August 28th, an Excursion Train will leave Pad dington at 8.40 a.m. for Taplow (Fares there and back, Ist class, 55.; covered carriages, 2s. 6d) ; Twyford, Henley, and Reading (6s. and 35.) ; Pangborne and Goring (7s. and 3s. 6d.); Moulsford and Didcot, (Bs. and 45.) ; Abingdon and Oxford (10s. and 55.); returning thesame day. For further particulars see handbills. J. GRIERSON, General Manager. Paddington, August, 1870. ESTABLISHED FIFTY YEARS, OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA is un equalled in its effect in producing Luxuriant Whiskers and Moustachios. 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Mr. GILMAN'S, "The wheat sheaf," High-street Camden-town. THE " SUN" forwarded by Morning and Evening Ma with undeviating regularity, and nelivered in Town as soon as Published. Advertisements inserted. Apply to W. ALEXANDER, 24, Old Cavendish-street, W. Established 1760. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. Tae sixty-eighth half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the above railway was held yesterday at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, London, under the presidency of Sir E. W. Watkin, chairman of the board of directors. There was but a moderate attendance of shareholders. The report exhibited a decrease in the gross earnings of £2,717 Os. 7d., as compared with the corresponding period of last year, and a decrease of £13,263 14s. 6d. in the working expenses, leaving an increase of net profit of £10,546 4s. lid. After providing for the interest and dividend on all the loan and preferential capital, the amount remaining applicable for a dividend on the consolidated stock was £118,452 54..7d.. wilich was equa1.4.4,44.1i,44.4144 at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum. Considering the state of affairs on the Continent, the directors, however, recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 2i per cent on the consolidated stock, or 5 per cent. on the preference stock, leaving a balance of £22,996 15s. 7d. to be carried forward to the current half-year's account. The company had opposed the diversion of the Metropolitan District Railway to the Mansion House, on the ground of breach of faith, the Metropolitan Company being under parliamentary obligation to construct an interchange station at the Cannon-street terminus of the South Eastern. With the view of im proving the condition of Woolwich and Deptford, which places had suffered much by the closing of the dockyards, the company had run workmen's trains between those places and London. Those trains being used. by persons other than workmen ' the company had endeavoured to insert in their Act of this year a clause limiting their lia bility for compensation in case of accident to a sum not exceeding £lOO. But the company failed in that object, owing to the opposition of the Vice- President of the Board of Trade, who de manded that the trains should be run under com pulsion, thus taking from the company all control over the abuse of a privilege voluntarily given. The chairman, in proposing the adoption of the report, said the share holders had met in the midst of a serious European crisis, affecting of necessity their traffic and trade. Whether the present terrible war would be of long or short duration would baffle the calculation of all; but it seemed to him impossible to assume that it would take at a very early date a peaceful solution, when they remembered that it was a struggle between great Powers, neither of whom was likely to succumb without a desperate effort. They must, therefore, reconcile themselves to what must undoubtedly result in considerable loss to them. They had been carry ing stores and medicine for the assistance of the sick and wounded of both belligerents over the line free of expense ; and if the shareholders desired to give a sub scription towards the same object the directors would readily assent to the proposal, many of those engaged in the great conflict, especially of the Prussian army, having been habitual customers of theirs. (Hear, hear.) Certain sensational paragraphs had recently been pub lished in the newspapers, alleging that large quantities of contraband of war—breechloaders and bayonets -had been conveyed over the South-Eastern Railway, for the use of one or the other of the belligerents. but he was not aware that the company had done any thing of the kind. (Hear, hear.) With one exception, they had not even had any tenders for the carriage of weapons. That tender was for arms to France, but the company asked such a rate as prevented weapons from going over the railway at all. (Hear, hear.) Through the instigation of the Home Secretary, Colonel Hender son had made special inquiries, it having been reported that a great number of heavy cases, endorsed " books," but really containing breech-loaders, been transmitted to Folkestone. On inquiry, however, it was discovered that the cases contained Biblessent by some benevolent persons in England for distribution amongst both armies. (Applause and laughter.) The hon. baronet then proceeded to shew that the company had continued to carry the public safely, to conduct the service efficiently, and to work the concern economically. They had carried nearly ten millions of passengers without a single accident. (Hear. ) He strongly condemned the present law with respect to compensation for accidents, and contended that the pay ment ought to bear some proportion to the fare. (Hear. ) Capt. Warren seconded the resolution,which, after some discussion, was carried. Certain by-laws having been submitted, the meeting was made special for the purpose of authorising the exercise of the powers con tained in the 33rd and 37th sections of the South-Eastern Railway Act, 1870, 'as to agreements with the Charing Cross Hotel Company and the City Terminus Hotel Com pany. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors termi nated the proceedings. HIGH PRICE OF BEEF IN THE UNITED STATES. —Within the last three weeks, at the New York market, the choicest pieces of beef brought from 30 to 35 cents per lb., medium pieces sold from 20 to 25 cents, and none, even of the most inferior kind, was purchas able at a less figure than 16 cents. Le Figaro relates a story of an old woman, 80 years of age, who begged to be allowed to go out as mandiere. She had been out in the same capacity in the Russian campaign, where she was wounded three times, and was also at Waterloo. She says she wants to dis mount a few Prussians. _ _ --- The Opinion Nationale says that the self-denial of Marshals MacMahon and Canrobert has not been suffi ciently noted. They are both seniors to Bazaine, yet they have not only submitted to his authority, but it is said that they have themselves named him as the fit commander-in-chief. An American correspondent writes:—The war, as was expected, is checking immigration from Europe. Heretofore the weekly average of arrivals at New York has been 7,000 to 9,000, while last week the number was but 3,631. The Germa n supply, the chief source, seems almost cut off. The Brewster sessions of the borough of Shef field were opened at the Sheffield Town-hall on Wednes day. A memorial signed by eleven hundred Sunday school officers and teachers was presented to the Bench, opposing the too numerous granting of licenses. Out of a large number of applications but two were granted. - - DEATH OF A LADY BY DROWNINO.—Mrs. Far quhar, wife of Mr. Farquhar, lessee of the Strontian shooting, Fort William, and residing at the Mansion House there, was drowned at two o'clock on Monday while bathing in Loch Sunart. Mr. Farquhar was at the time at Banavie. The death is announced of the Rev. R. D. Dawson Duffield, L.L.D., rector of Sefton, near Liver pool. The deceased was at one time chaplain to the late Duke of Cambridge, and he was elevated to the dignity of an Italian Count by King Victor Emmanuel. In 1863 he was appointed by the patron, the Marquis de Roth well, to the rectory of Sefton, the value of which is a little over £l,BOO a year. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—An inquest was held at Merthyr on Wednesday on the body of a governess named Emily Goulstone, who committed suicide by taking a dose of prussic acid. From the evidence it appeared that an illicit connection had been formed between the unfortu nate deceased and her employer, Mr. Howell Williams, assistant overseer of the parish of Aberdare. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased poisoned herself whilst labouring under an attack of temporary insanity. MILITARY AND NAVAL PREPARATIONS.—It is rumoured at Chatham dockyard that the Bulwark, 81 guns, 3,716 tons, 800 horse-power, lying in frame at No. 5 slip there, is to be cut down and converted into an armour plated turret-ship. The Bulwark was commenced in 1859, but on iron ships being introduced into the navy all work upon her was stopped, so that she has been lying idle for some years. The sister ship to the Bulwark, at Pem broke, is, it is reported at Chatham, to be converted into an ironclad. LYDIA THOMPSON IN THE WARS AGAIN.—Miss Lydia Thompson has had another sensation scene for the benefit of Chicago, but this time she has appeared as the aggrieved party in the suit. For months past it appears that she has been haunted by a madwoman, who pre tended to be in love with her. Miss Thompson summed up a long story of her grievances by declaring that she was in bodily fear of the woman ; she had bought a pistol and had often threatened to shoot Mr. Henderson. The matter was subsequently arranged by Miss Griffin, the monomaniac consenting to leave the city immediately. An American correspondent says : —There are now laid up at New York harbour, in what is practically a blockade, for they dare not venture to sea, nine North German steamers—the Hammonia, Cimbria,,, Westphalia. Union, America, Hanover, Weser, Frankfort, and Her man, and at Baltimore two, the Leipsic and Berlin. At New York are also laid up 27 North German sailing ves sels—the ships Johann, Charlotte, Shakspeare, Hersh el, Neptune, Betty, and Guttenberg_; the barques Capella, Johannes, Louise Marco Polo, verhard Delius, Ever hard, Cecrops Frederick Scala, Arcturus, Kolga, Grafin Kuyphausen, 'Sirene, Cedas, Brazileria, Jenny, Harsberg, and Elwine Kreplin, and the brigs Musca, Calsow, Steiow, and Levine. There are about 20 North German vessels in Boston, ten in Philadelphia, who came here chiefly for petroleum ; as many more at Baltimore, who went there for corn ; and others at Norfolk, Charleston, Savannah, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, and other ports. Indeed, no American port of any size is without its fleet of blockaded North German vessels. AUGUST 26, 1870. HER MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS. News from Chatham states that the Lords of the Ad miralty have directed that the workmen in that dockyard, when employed working overtime, shall not work more than fourteen hours a day. Parties of non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the various corps at Chatham garrison are being instructed daily in the use of the Snider breech-loading rifle, with which the whole of the troops there are now armed. The addition of 400 men to the newly established Army Service Corps has been carried out, and the force will now contain three additional companies in the transport and two in the supply branch. Owing to the degree of educa tion required to qualify, there is some difficulty in obtain ing competent candidates for the Royal Engineers, where about 140 young men of superior intelligence are required to form a field telegraph train. On Wednesday afternoon a deputation of members of the Woolwich Local Board of Health and other influen tial residents of _ the district had an interview, by appointment, with Mr. Cardwell, at the War-office, with reference to the proposed appropriation by the Government of the largest portion of the Woolwich Dock yard for military purposes. It appears that, in reply to advertisements, tenders have been sent to the Govern ment for various sections of the dockyard, in accordance with plans issued by the Admiralty. Whether these tenders have been accepted is not at present known, but several of the buildings have been transferred to the War Department for officers' residences, and the establishment has been surveyed by the Engineer Department, with a view to its adaptation for general military purposes, including the slaughtering of beasts for the supply of the garrison, the storage of war material, &c. The depu- Greenwich), Messrs. Fairchild, Rugg, Shershy, &c., urged the advisability of the Government adhering to its origi nal intention of disposing of the whole of the dock yard in preference to the proposed plan, as no necessity existed for its transfer to the War Department, for which it was quite unfitted. Mr. Cardwell said, in reply, that the statement made should receive the utmost considera tion, and intimated his intention to make a personal in spection of the dockyard. ALLEGED EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD. At the Mansion House, yesterday, John Bennett, a coal merchant, was brought up in custody of Detective Sergeant Packman, and charged before Mr. Alderman Carter, on a warrant, with having obtained the sum of £5OO from Frederick Hamilton Phillips by false pretences with intent to defraud. Mr. George Lewis appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Ribton, barrister, for the de fence.—ln opening the case, Mr. Lewis said the prisoner commenced business as a coal merchant at Eagle Wharf, Wandsworth, and sold one half of it to a person named Tucker. The remaining half he sold to another person named Davis. In November last he bought back the premises, and shortly afterwards he sold a share to a gentleman named Crosley for £7OO. Within six weeks Mr. Crosley wished to get out of the business, and agreed to accept bills from the prisoner for £4OO, waiving £3OO. The prisoner then sold the same share to a Mr. Fry for £3OO, but Mr. Fry also wanted to get out of it immediately. The prosecutor about this time saw an advertisement which had been inserted by the prisoner, and on commu nicating with him was told that half of the profits would be equal to £350 and £5OO a year. Prosecutor agreed to purchase the half of the business for £5OO, and paid that amount, the prisoner representing that the assets amounted to £1,360, of which £4OO was put down as the value of the wharf and land adjoining, which the prisoner said was unclaimed land, on which he had entered into possession' four years ago. The fact, however, was that the prisoner paid a rent of £l2los. for the wharf, and although he had represented that he had no debts he had since filed a petition in which he put his liabilities down at £2,000. The prose cutor was called, and said that since the 24th June only 120 tons of coal had been sold, and the profits had only been sufficient to pay the expenses. The case was then adjourned till this day week, and the alderman declined to accept bail FALSE SUSPICIONS ABOUT THE NATHAN MURDER. The tendency of mankind to believe the worst they can of their fellow-creatures has been vary strongly brought out this week. There is no accusation which can be made against a man too base for the majority of his fellow creatures to accept. They either go about boldly repeating it, or shake their heads and say there "must be something in it." A few days ago a newspaper of this city pub lished a wicked and cruel slander on one of the sons of the murdered Mr. Nathan. We denounced it at the time as a dastardly act, worthy only of the footpads and cut-throats who infest our streets- The World joined with us in this protest ; but the original calumny was re peated day after day in more than one of the prominent journals, and every attempt was made to poison the public mind against the members of a family already suffering under a crushing affliction. The effect of these attacks and insinuations was naturally great, consider ing, as we have already said that nine people out of ten are always more ready to believe harm of a man than good. The whisper spread abroad that Mr. Wash ington Nathan had certainly murdered his father. The story was telegraphed in a more or less positive manner from one end of the country to the other. There is no possible reparation for such an outrage as this. One of our most influential contemporaries aimed article after article indirectly at young Mr. Nathan—condescending for once to take its cue from a Sunday paper. Yet all this time there was not a shadow of reason for fastening so horrible a charge upon this young man, and when the evi dence came to be taken at the inquest it was proved that the blood-stains of which so much had been said were not upon Mr. Washington Nathan at all, but upon the clothes of his brother. So little had the Sunday paper known of the real facts—so little did it care for them—that it confused one brother with another, and utterly misrepresented every incident which it pretended to describe. The same journal will doubtless present another vile mass of slan ders to the public this morning, and men will be found fools or knaves enough to go about mouthing it over to each other, just as if the originator of it had not already been proved to be an impostor. This sort of cut-and-thrust work in the press may amuse some people, so long as they are not themselves the victims of it. But their turn may come some day. When once outrageous licentiousness in journalism is tolerated, no man and no woinan can ever be deemed safe. Besides the injury done to private character by this readiness to believe every malicious story set afloat by unprincipled writers, the course of justice is greatly impeded. For a whole week the public, at least, have been put on a false scent. The real criminal has been laughing in his sleeve at the readiness with which a just community will credit any infamous story affecting the reputation of private persons. A little reflection would have shewn every candid person that the presumptions were all in favour of the innocence of the late Mr. Nathan's sons. The charge against them was accepted on the authority of—we are ashamed to mention the paper—the Sunday Mercury. Few men would like to have their characters dependent on the verdict of that sheet—fewer still would like to think that everthing which was published in it against them would be immediately believed by their friends. But apart from all this, there were many reasons which ought to have convinced every sober-minded person that the charge against Mr. Washington Nathan was a groundless one. Let us specify but two or three of these reasons :- 1. He could have had access to the safe at any time. His father was absent from the house for weeks together, and he could easily have made an opportunity of forcing open the lock without fearing detection. It was not necessary to commit a murder in order to get at it. The lock was not a " combination" one, and there need have been no great difficulty in forcing it. 2. It is mere baseless conjecture to suppose that there was any docu ment in the safe which would have been useful to Mr. Washington Nathan. The theory about the second will would do very well for one of Beadle's romances, but it will not bear sifting. If there had been a second will, a lawyer, or some witness to it, would, in all probability, know of its existence. At present no member of the family has reason to suppose that such a will was ever made. 3. Mr. Washington Nathan (and the same remark, of course, holds good of his brothers) was a business man, and, as such, knew per fectly well that no securities which happened to be in the safe would be negotiable. He probably was aware that not much money was there, since it is not the habit of business men to keep large sums about them or in their houses. They send their balances to their bankers, and understand the use of checks. 4. Mr. Washington Nathan is said to be a partner in a respect. able firm, from which he draws an ample income. He was under no temptation to murder a father for the sake of money. 5. The wildest supposition yet made is that Mr. Nathan, senior, did not struggle for his life. His attitude when found, and the number of blows he received shew that a desperate fight must have taken place. Is it to be supposed that the murderer escaped without a scratch ? No one who has not been run away with by his private hobby horse on this subject, (and every body seems to own a hobby horse with regard to it), will believe such a thing possible. The assassin must have carried away the traces of the struggle upon him—but not the faintest mark could be found on either of the sons. These reflections and theories ought, we say, to have been quite sufficient. to exculpate the late 'Mr. Nathan's sons from the outset. But a newspaper, which nobody professes to put any faith in, starts a cock-and-bull story, and half the town sets out eagerly in chase of it. It is a great satisfacion to many people to hear that that their neighbour has been accused of some barbarous crime. If you want to draw an admir ing audience round you, do not speak good of a man, but swear he murdered his grandmother, that he drinks blood for his breakfast, and is in the habit of dining off boiled children. That makes a "sensation," and please the listeners at once. But we advise decent citizens to take notice of a not unimportant fact—namely, that it is quite possible to strike down character and life at one blow in this city. It is never a difficult matter to bring an accusation against an innocent person. When the press is allowed to make the foulest attacks on private reputation unreproved—nay, even encouraged by the public—the prospect for the " improvement of society " is rather a bad one.—. New York Times. PRICE STAMPED '%,1 REVILERS AND EULOGISTS OF THE EMPEROR. The Standard has made itself the guardian of Napoleon's honour, and is very angry at the plainspeaking of the Times and the Daily News respecting the blunders of that Sove reign and the only course which is open to him. It is a matter for curious speculation, and one certainly that I cannot explain, why the Conservative press has shewn itself so strongly Bonapartist. The Standard is fiercely, the John Bull vehemently, and the Globe mildly so. One would have thought that the antecedents of the pre sent French ruling dynasty would have set the organs of the most aristocratic party in England against it. Hatred of the Bonapartes used to be one of the first articles of the Tory creed, and Fox found it useless to contend against that feeling. Even now the English aristocracy have little love for the family of the " Corsican adven turer." Visiting Paris they would not attend his levees, and the fact that Lord Lyons is unmarried has always been considered an advantage, inasmuch as it enabled our high-born British dames to find an excuse for not being presented to the Empress when they were staying at the French capital. With them Philo-Orleanism has always been a mark of haut ton. Never theless, the Conservative press, and also the horning Post have been conspicuously Bonapartist for years, and never more so than when the present head of the family . t :towaiiit.t.44l44--arima.,..a going to war without excuse. Whatever be the reason for their partisanship, they have scarcely the right to complain of the journals who do not sympathise with them, for plain speaking. Nothing that the Times or the Daily News has said can be stronger than what several of the French journals have published. The tales respecting the Emperor, which the Standard denounces its contemporaries for publishing were nearly all originated in the Paris journals. What can be more severe, for instance, than the remarks of the Siecle respect ing the Emperor's alleged visit to the troops at Chalons, except those of the Avenir National, which said, " the country cares nothing at all about the Emperor ; it wants to hear about the army." Another strange characteristic of English Conservative journalism just now is the indignation expressed at the idea of France being deprived of any portion of her territory. France as all the world knows, went to war in order to annex the coal mines on the Saar and the Rhine provinces of Germany, and if she had been victorious England cer tainly Would not have prevented her from seizing the object of her greed. Why, then, now that the fortune of war has gone against her, should there be any surprise if Prussia should insist upon repaying herself for the sacrifice of a war which was thrust upon her, and if she is resolved to make a fr4mtier line that shall be less open to attack? Yet the rumour that England has proposed to make Alsace and Lorraine a neutral state has made the Stan dard furious, though this is so mild a penalty upon France that Prussia is almost certain not to consent to it. I need hardly say that England is not at all likely to inter pose if Prussia should insist upon material guarante , :s as the condition of peace.— Western Morning News. WAR TOPICS. We shall not wonder if European armies learn the same truth which was so clearly shown in our war of the Rebel lion, that young men are the best generals. The Crown Prussia, who has the chief glory of the defeat of the French army, is not yet thirty nine years old, and before he was thirty-five he had made himself a great name at Sadowa. Prince Frederick Charles, the King's nephew, who com mands the Prussian right, and is esteemed the ablest of all King William's generals, is forty-two years old. Most of the fighting at Sadowa was done by his army. Nearly all the French leaders are old men.—The French journals published in this city appeared yesterday with out the news of the defeat of M`Mahon and Frossard, the excitement in Paris, the proclamation of the Cabinet, or the bulletin of the Empress. Nay, one of them devoted its first three columns to the elaboration of a theory of the battle, based upon the news of Friday and Saturday, and arrived at the conclusion that if certain supposed move ments had taken place, " the army of the Crown Prince must have been not only vanquished, but broken to pieces, inasmuch as it could receive effective succour neither from Prince Frederick Charles nor from King William, having been cut off from them by the French movement against Neuenkirchen on Thursday." There is so much virtue in an "if ! " The French journals receive no telegraphic despatches, but it is strange that they should have remained all Sunday afternoon and evening in ignorance of the serious intelligence which was then posted on the bulletins and agitating the whole city. The French army has been out-generaled and out-fought. At the beginning of the cam paign all the conditions were in the Emperor's favour ; but Von Moltke beat him in manceuvering as Von Steinmetz beat Frossard, and the Crown Prince decidedly beat MacMahon. The strategy of the Prussian left was indeed in beautiful contrast with all the French movements up to this time. In actual conflict the superiority of the Prussians seems, from the present meager accounts, to have been equally marked. There have been fair stand-up fights and headlong charges, and the Germans have shown, in addition to their charac teristic steadiness and obstinacy, all that elan which is supposed to be tr e distinguishing merit of the French.—The Baltic expedition is indefi nitely postponed, and its commander, Gen. Trochu, goes to Metz to relieve Bazaine, who takes the place of Lebceuf. General Trochu is a younger man than most of the other corps commanders, and military critics rate him as one of the best of French commanders.—As soon as Napoleon is beaten, Prussia assumes a peremptory tone towards England—at which nobody outside of England will be dis pleased, and immediately England takes a decided attitude on the question of Belgian neutrality—at which nobody outside of Franc@ will be displeased. France i s already experiencing the correctness of the old saying, that nothing succeeds like success, and England has evi dently learned the same great truth.—lt is supposed that Denmark is not so anxious now for a French affiance as she was a week ago.—Napoleon is reported to be sick. We don't doubt it. He is the sickest man in Europe. —The tranquil infant has returned to Paris with his bullet. The army has wept again. —Minister 011ivier rightly appreciates the estimation in which he is held by Frenchmen. In both the proclamations which he has issued since the French defeat he has begun by assuring the people that " the whole truth has been told them." The assurance was certainly needed, in view of former deceit ful practices of the Government.—The attack of the Crown Prince at Weissenburg seems to have been a complete surprise. General Douay knew nothing of his danger until the Prussian artillery began to play upon him. Then the French account says he was outnumbered, but that he was so is more discreditable to the French than any other blunder of the campaign. —The idea of the mitrailleuse, according to the Army and Navy Journal, was borrowed from the American Gatling gun, which had been submitted to the French Government just before the famous machine now used in Napoleon's army was first made. There is a Belgian gun of the same kind, the invention of Montigny, which Is said to be superior to the French. The following figures are given as the result of an experimental trial of the Montigny and Gatling guns. With a target 87 feet long by 26 feet high, at a distance of 430 yards, out of 370 cartridges placed in the Montigny gun, 278 truck, and at 650 yards the hits were in the proportion of about fifty per cent. The Gat ling gun was fired at a target only ten feet square, and 500 yards distant, and of 110 shots not one missed. With the same target, at the distance of 1,000 yards, 76 per cent. of the shots struck. The story of the terrible execution done by the mitrailleuse upon a yard full of broken-down horses, like the story of its mowing down columns of Prussians at Saarbruok, was no doubt intended to be given to the army —as a tonic. The men would keep up wonderfully if they thought every regiment had on its flank a little Allachine which, by the turn of a crank, could scatter the enemy's files in the twinkling of an eye, —Xere York Tribune. The Athens correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes :—" Whatever may be the secret of the policy, the fact itself is indisputable—the Russians are at this moment lending us all their aid in Greece, and using every influ ence they possess to induce the Greek Cabinet to accede to our demands. So far have they succeeded th a t NI. Delegiorgisthe Premier, has at last given way, and per mitted the English law officers to be present at the exa minations." and . proved a complete success. METROPOLITAN POLICE ORPHANAGE.-011 Wed nesday a fete in aid of the funds of this charity was given Palace e oommissioners of Police and of the superintendents lent eclat to the proceedings, e eea n rl iivened by 19 police-bands. The day proved a lwda lithh : pleasant ttie e crh r ihp y eertwCesersirunespct opened in September, and is situated at Twickenham, will be Fortescue House, which is capable of holding 100 children, POSTPONEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORK ING MEN'S CONGRESS.—In consequence of the war the general council of the International Working Men's Asso ciation has appealed to the continental sections to sanction the suspension of the rule which makes it imperative that the annual congress should meet on the first Monday in September. In their replies the sections are unanimous in stating that, under existing circumstances, the congress could not be held anywhere at the appointed time, and they authorise the council to appoint the time and place of the meeting according to its judgment. Some are of opinion that the congress osay be held iu Paris at no distant date,