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The celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient chef, Signor Luigi Curd, performs the choicest and latest com positions of ail distinguished composers—the solos in which are assigned to the eminent enphonionist, Signor L. Moses.; Messrs. W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr. Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman, N.C. Admission, ls.; Reset ved Seats, 28. R. R. IsistmL, Proprietor. N.B.—The GRAND EXTRA NIGHT and Last of the Season will take place on MONDAY, Ist August. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. I% ow added Portriit Modeli of JOHN JONES, alias JOHN OWEN, and WALCER MILLAR, to the CHAMBER OF HORRORS. Admission, ls. ; Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. G REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. On SUNDAY, August 14th, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave PADDINGTON for READING (Fares there and back, Ist class, 65.; covered cars, 38.); Pangborne and Goring (7s. and 3s. 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The work la complete in thirty-one monthly numbers, at 6d. each, The work is also issued in quarterly parts, in covers, at ls. 6d. each part, Part X. now ready, price 2e, Back numbers reprinted, and may be had. "We congratulate British entomologists on the completion , and publication of this magnificent Both to the beginner and the proficient in that study this wo r k will be invaluable."—Daily Telegraph. " It is illustrated with life-size figures from nature of each species, and of the more striking varieties, and it possesses great advantages over all similar works, inasmuch as the caterpillar of each moth, with his habits and season, is described. This, to collectors, will be an immense boon, and by its means they will be enabled to obtain many rare specimens."—Standard. "The completion of Mr. Newman' work on the British Moths is a benefit to entomologists of all classes. It is at once a text-book by a high authority, most valuable for reference, and a handsome, taste fully got-up volume, which will be an ornament to any library or drawing-room table. It embodies the results of many years' earnest and intelligent work by one whose reputation as an ento mologist deservedly stands high. . . . . We notice also with satisfaction that Mr. Newman's descriptions, whilst thoroughly scientific and minute, are given in plain and unaffected English. With the help of these and the very excellent woodcuti, even a very young collector may with ease identify any moth he may cap ture. The figures are so well drawn that there is no need of colour to render them life-like. . . . . We unhesitatingly commend this volume to our readers. We regard it as very useful addition to our library?' Land and Water, Oct. 9. London—W. TWEEDIE. 337. Strand. W.O. Now published, " FJORD, ISLE, AND TOR." A BOOK FOR TOURISTS IN NORWAY, THE CHANNEL jBLANDS,SORNWALL, AND THE SCILLY ISLANDS. BY EDWARD SPENDER PRICE 3s. "It is a straightforwardly and sometimes gracefully written Sketch of Norway, the Channel Islands, and Cornwall, from the holiday traveller's point of view, not, however, exclusively devoted to matters of scenery or itinerary, but designed to give the voyager an intelligent interest in the manners, customs, industries, and institutions of the districts he is expl %ring. For intending visitors to Norway especially, Mr. Spendei 's book will be welcome. It has, moreover, the deckled advantage of com pression, clearness of style, andeasy manageableness of bulk."— Daily Telegraph. "The volume perfectly fulfils its purpose. It is neat and cheap and contains in a small space a great quantity of very interesting matter, much of which will be novel, and all of which will be useful, not only to those who visit the places described, but to those who stay at home. Mr. Spender is an acute observer, a most industrious and judicious collector of facts, and an eloquent and graphic writer, and does ample justice to his subjects."— Yorkshire Post. "It deserves a welcome, this book we have so long undon sciously been in search of. The itineraries themselves are to the intending excursionists a veritable benefaction. . . Altogether the book is one to carry in one's knapsack or valise during the happy time of our holiday excursion, and to give a place to on our book-shelves afterwards as a most pleasant remembrancer." =Sun " Fjord, isle, and Tor' is a very delightful little book. The essay on Norway is particularly full of information, but the others are not far behind it in proportion to their length, and all are written in a genial spirit."—Globe. " Without being exactly a guide-book, it answers all the pur poses of one, and contains beside a vast quantity of information, all given in the most condensed form possible. There is not a line of space wasted in fine writing, but the descriptions of scenery bear witness to the author's genuine love and appreciation of the picturesque, just as his closely compressed facts and statements prove the practical and hardworking man of letters."—Man chester Courier. " From back to hack Fjord, Isle, and Tor' is full of matter interesting equally to the I surist and the ordinary reader. It is written in an easy and pleasant style, and is well 'got up."'— Eastern Morning News. '• We cannot part with this fascinating little work without con gratulating ➢ir. Spender upon it. Addressed, as it more especially is, to travellers in Norway, the Channel Islands, and Cornwall, it is, nevertheless, a book that will afford the keenest gratifica tion to the general public. . . . As to its literary merits we need say nothing, the name of the author being sufficient guarantee on this point."—Western Mail. - • - " The articles shew unusual power of observation, are full of genial gossip, and supply just what the excursionist wants- - reliable information."—Western Daily Press. CHARLTON TUCKER. 21, Northumberland-street, Charing Cross LIPANISH Elf_i is the Acting Ingredient, in 10 ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily pro duces Whiskers and Thickens Hair. Price, 3s. 6d., ss. 5d., and los. 6d. Sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Alex. Ross, 248, High Holborn, and all chemists. Tale of a Hair, 6d. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This pre paration gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 45., sent by post for 60 stamps. 248, High Holborn, and all chemists. Face Powder, Is. HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn.— ALEX. 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Also, Sarsaparilla Ointment, the best soother of all sores, burns, and scalds ; each in boxes, Is. lid., 28. 9d., and 4s. 6d. ; by post, 15, 30, and 60 stamps. IRISH AND AMERICAN OPINION ON THE WAR. The Irish people in America are mainly inclined to sympathise with the French position in the opening war, for several reasons. " Pat's just the boy for fighting," and the warlike, effervescent spirit of the Gaul suits him better than the quieter and more peaceful disposition of the Teuton. Again, France has, for time immemorial, been seemingly the most natural and nearest ally of any struggle that Ireland might make for independence- How delusive the idea has heretofore proven it is not for us now to discuss ; but there are thousands alive in our city who can distinctly remember the cheers that went up in favour of Russian success in the Crimea. Yet France and England were sworn allies there, and the entente cordiale has never yet been broken. The wiles of a gray old-time diplomacy are often too deep for the comprehension of an impulsive, warm-hearted people. Irish republicans and French imperia'ists would make a happy family, and we greatly fear that it would be only "the hereditary foe" that would do the laughing. " Ireland's opportunity " is in America and with America, in the hour when free and just government here shall have so strengthened our institutions and made transcendantly bright our example that ours shall be preponderating and . controlling Power in the world. Theft fleets and armies will be virtually abandoned, and the force of law and justice, of religion and truth, will give opportunity for the righting . of every wrong, and the elevation of every oppressed • people. And- here we come to legitimate American opinion, which believes that it discovers in this wpr the dawn of a better day for Europe, although the morn be canopied with brooding clouds and darkness. Americans, generally, while some turn to their French and others to their German partners in business or companions in social life, behold in King William and his counsellor, Bismarck, instruments of Providence to bring about the political and commercial unity of a grand people hither to divided and discordant. The common . perils and trials of war will cement the confederation which the petty and selfish interests of ideal trade still jeopardised, while, on the other hand, the tremendous nature of the struggle will compel the German monarch and statesman to come nearer to the people and to aban don for ever their lurking predilection for Cwsarisrn. In very truth, the two most formidable representatives of iron-handed military power are to be dashed together and mutually broken, so far as their ultra-mon archical tendencies are concerned. France can never so completely prostrate Germany, or Germany so pros trate France as that either may venture to dream of universal military domination. Both must count with the people, for the people, and by the people, and the ruler who most sincerely and effectually does that will win the day. The triumph of the people's champion is the American idea of this war's result—and what Frenchman, German, Irishman, or Scandinavian prays for less or will fight for more ?—New York Herald. It is stated that the Attorney-General will prose cute in the Brixton baby-farming case, which will be tried next week at the Central Criminal Court. The judges on the rota are Mr. Baron Martin, Mr. Justice Montague Smith, and Mr. Justice Brett. ED ITII N. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP. THURSDAY, The absence of most of the Opposition leaders at the close of the session would on ordinarily occasions excite no comment, but yesterday when there was an unusually full House for the last day of the Parliamentary year it was very noticeable. Lord Cairns was alone in the Upper House, Mr. Disraeli in the Lower, and yet it was known that the Belgian Treaty would be discussed in both houses. Lord Cairns's failure was signal and complete. Mr. Disraeli having already approved the Treaty as "spirited and wise," could not well re-echo his colleague's strictures, and he sat absolutely silent during the somewhat vehement discussion which Mr. Bernal Osborne's strong remarks excited. Evidently the Opposition, who rather took for granted that the present Ministry, however powerful in ordinary times, would break down at a great foreign crisis like the Present, have found out their mistake. Mr. Gladstone asd Lord Granville have shewn themselves strong in diplomacy as in legislation. Nay, on that very point where they have had to sustain some' very unfavourable criticism they have been, according to the voluntary and generous avoival of Lord Derby, particularly successful. Speaking at an agricultural dinner yesterday, he declared iliat in p0iht_ig.,4044,,,N0, wer we had= nev,,tr -Uses. so strong, nor nearly as strong, as we are now, and that our army, though small, was the best in existence. I have little doubt that this statement is in the main true, though I have even less doubt that there was a serious deficiency in stores a few days ago. This deficiency will be made up with all pos sible haste, and the Government have determined to con vertimmediately all muzzle-loaders into Sniders. Who would have supposed that' when the Stock 'Exchange went raving mad on the 25th at the bare rumour of a Prusso-Russian alliance, and securities were hurled about in frantic despair, the news " Revolution in Paris," which was shouted by the news boys yesterday, would have caused a rise in the funds? A month ago such tidings would have caused a fearful panic ; but yes terday it was considered good news. To-day the city has witnessed the strange scene of a body of French mechanics parading the streets, and singing the Marseillaise. They were on their way to the railway station, en route for France. One lesson the war has taught us, the immense impor tance of secrecy as to the military operations of the armies. We journalists thought the suppression of news very hard and very unjust, for was not the war made in our especial behalf The Prussians thought otherwise. So profound was the mystery with which they veiled their plans that even distinguished officers knew nothing of them, and thus it came to pass that the Crown Prince was able to pounce down upon the out numbered French troops, and inflict upon them a defeat that France will not recover for twenty years. Some little surprise is felt that the Attorney-General should have presented himself to the valuable Recorder ship of Bristol. It is true that Sir Robert Collier has not a large private practice, .and may therefore like to have something to fall back upon, if there were a probability of his leaving office; but this prospectis very remote. Mean while the Attorney-General's income from patent fees is very large, and a recordei:ship of £650 a year should have been an " unconsidered trifle " to him, while to many another lawyer less fortunate than he has been it would be almost a fortune. Surely there were some deserving barristers on the Western Circuit, for whom this little bonne bouche might have been reserved. Another legal dignitary, Sir Robert Phillimore, Dean of the Court of Arches, has just published as a pamphlet his judgment in the Bennett case. It is edited by Mr. Walter Phillimore, an Oxonian of considerable dis tinction. Every one will regret the downfall of The O'Donoghue. The cause of his pecuniary embarrassments I have not yet heard, but he has become a bankrupt. Ile was a fine specimen of an Irish M.P., handsome, and gallant, and although when he first entered the House of Commons he committed some serious indiscretions, such as chal lenging Sir R. Peel, when Chief Secretary for Ireland, he has latterly shewn himself a real patriot, and has advised his quondam friends, the Nationalists, to accept the legislation of the present Government as conceding all that they ought to ask. At one time he represented Tip perary County, but the constituency being too costly for him, he became member for the little borough of Tralee. That seat now becomes vacant. Hitherto the Thames, or as it is now called the Victoria, Embankment, has been very little used by vehicles. Admirably though the broad road is calculated for traffic, London cabmen are a conservative race, and they don't like to leave the crowded thoroughfares, and be discharged in a road where there is little chance of picking up a stray fare. Foot passengers have a greater appreciation of this noble thoroughfare, and it has become quite a playground for children, and on Sundays it is thronged by thousands of persons, The new gas lamps are being erected, and are taking the place of ,the ugly temporary wooden posts. A statue of Sir James Outram also is to be placed someday on the Embankment. Let us hope that this day will not be as long as that which has intervened between the order for the Wellington Statue in St. Paul's, and the completion of it. A number of really good statues Placed on this embankment, and a public garden on the vacant space near the Duke of Buccleuch's mansion would make this one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the noblest promenades in the world. Already it is one of the few things that we Londoners may be proud of. One cannot but rejoice that poor Sir John Thwaites lived just long enough to see the opening of this fine work. It is not improbable that he will be suc ceeded by Sir William Fraser, a Devonshire barrister, who represented Barnstaple and Ludlow in the House of Commons, and has long taken an active interest in the improvements of London, as is proved by his pamphlet thereon. But there is also a terrible rumour to the effect that just as the Attorney-General has taken the Bristol Recordership, so the First Commissioner of Works will take the chairmanship of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and still retain his present post and seat in the House of Commons. In that case London would be wholly, as it is now partially, in the hands of Mr. Ayrton. The anxiety of the High Church party in England to offer the Liberal religionists both of England and the Continent a modus vivendi, has made them the more vexed at what they term the Westminster Abbey scandal. They would have been angered by it under any circumstances ; but just now, when they are endeavouring to hold up the English Church as the true home of primitive truth, they are greatly mortified that the English bishops should have knowingly communicated with a person whom they deem a heretic. Dean Stanley de fends the course which he has taken, and asks in the current number of. the Contemporary Review if men hold ing the faith of Milton, and Charming are to be excluded from communion. This is a forcible way of stat ing his case ; but it is unfortunate, to say the least, that the Deam, while willing to communicate with a Unitarian, refused to do so with the bishops who came from all parts of the earth to be present at the Lambeth Conference. This conduct is of a piece with. the Dean's readiness to subscribe to the Voysey defence fund, and his unreadiness to subscribe to the Mackonochie defence fund. It would seem as if the Dean were liberal only in one direc tion. This fact is not - forgotten by High Church cletgyrrieri• or laymen, 'and so it comes to pass that in certain London churches you will find near the door a table, and on the table a memorial protesting against the "sacrilege ". aforesaid. Meanwhile Dean Stanley and other leaders of the Broad Church party are not ceasing their efforts to widen the Church so as to admit a large number of Noncon formists. Dean .Alford also openly argues for the admission of their preachers into the pulpits of the Eng lish Church, and reminds his readers that the founder of the. Franciscans was, even when only a layman, allowed by the Roman Catholic Church to preach. The warfare against the so-called Athanasian creed goes on more and more vigorously, and can scarcely fail to be successful before long. Canon Liddon has indeed declared that if the creed is expunged from the Prayer Book he will have to reconsider his position as a clergyman of the English Church, but he is scarcely likely to secede to Rome now, It has been proposed to insert s rubric AUGUST 12, 1870. after the Athanasian creed, explaining away the damnatory clauses ; but this course will not satisfy the Broad Church party, and one of the ablest of them, Mr. Lyttleton (brother of Lord Lyttleton, and a near relative of Mr. Gladstone), has, in yesterday's Guardian. strongly protested against this course as inconsistent with honesty and truthfulness. Still on ecclesiastical matters, I may mention that the bill drawn up by the London Free and Open Church Association was introduced into the House of Commons just before the close of the' session pro forma. Mr. West, Recorder of Manchester, and M.P. for Ipswich, brother of Mr. Temple West, incum bent of St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, and of Mr. Algernon West, Mr. Gladstone's private Secretary, had charge of the measure, but owing to the death of his aged father was compelled to hand the mea sure over to his friend, Mr. Glyn. The object of intro ducing the bill now is to bring it bef-re the notice of M. P.'s. Next session it ,is to be hoped the measure will become law. The latest accident in Switzerland is one of the saddest that has happened for many a day. Mr. George Marke, who has thus within two months of his marriage been rendered a widower, is well known to me. He is, though - ; traveller, having visited every county in Europe, and he is a hardy mountaineer, having not long ago made that most difficult of all ascents, the Matterhorn. It seems extraordinary that the lamentable accident which has happened should have taken place. Every day scores of persons traverse the Mer de Glace, many of them without a guide, so well marked is the path across the ice. No doubt there are crevasses, but there is no snow over them, and thus they are visible to everybody. In fact, it is the facility which they offer for seeing one of the most beautiful Alpine effects—the sky-blue depth of the cloven ice-fields —in a morning's excursion, without fatigue or danger, that renders Chamouni so popular a resort. How the unfortu nate lady IN ho has just lost her life can have fallen into one of these open and visible clefts is at present inexplicable. Mr. Marke who has thus been terribly bereaved, had but a few months ago come into possession of considerable estates in Devonshire and Cornwall. OLLIVIER'S DOWNFALL. " WENT up like a rocket and came down like a stick." Such ,is the verdict which public opinion will pass upon M. ErrILE OLLIviEn. Three weeks ago he entered upon the war" with a light heart." He has been an early victim of it ; would we could say the earliest. That fate was PREVOST-PAItADOL'S, and between the tr.:icicle of the Ambassador and the downfall of the Premier. there lie days of trouble and, rebuke, the battle of the warrior, confused noise, garments rolled in blood, and for some hours a life destroyed at every tick of the clock. And now Paris is in danger, and the light-hearted Minister has fallen, for the nation has no confidence in him, or in any of his mates. He who was to have inaugurated the epoch of Parliamentary Govern ment, he, who only eight months before was the impersonation of Constitutional Parliamentary Government, has been utterly overthrown. The fall was well merited. From the moment that he apos tatised, and unwarned by his nobler collea , me, Count DARU, he allowed himself to become an accomplice in the Plebiscite, to restore per sonal Government in its most dangerous form, he deserved to fall. He undertook his office on two express conditions; that there should be a responsible Government, that there should be no war. In May he surrendered the first condition without compunc tion, in July he surrendered the second " with a light heart." He betrayed his principles and kept his place. Surely that place will henceforth know him no more for ever. But bad as the late Ministry was, the present is infinitely worse. It is nothing less than portentous that at a time when Paris was almost in revolution, and the army that has so long kept down a rising, was at the frontier beaten sand disor ganised, the "Arcadians" should be placed in power. With the exception of M. MAGNE, who has shewn some ability as a financier, and the Prince DE LA 1 OUR D'AUVERGNE, lately Ambas sador in this country, there is hardly a name that does not suggest the worst form of reac tion. As for the head of the new Cabinet, he has earned the worst reputation, and so gross were his mis deeds in China, where his main object seemed to be to secure loot for himself, that the Chambers abso lutely refused to sanction the pension which it was proposed to bestow on him. Baron JEROME DAVID'S fitness for office may be estimated when we say that he has been first and foremost in every evil way as regards political matters. To think that France should have fallen into the hands of these men, is well nigh as lamentable as that the brave army of Franco should have been led by a LEMEUF and a NAPOLEON. That unhappy country, so often and so sorely tried, does indeed demand all our sympathy just now. It is to be hoped that out of this furnace of affliction she will come forth tried like silver. It is to be hoped that henceforth the glaring and gaudy tinsel of Personal Government will no longer delude her. Twice within a little more than half a century it has brought France to the very verge of ruin. Surely this twice-taught lesson cannot prove in vain.—Western Morning News. THE EMPEROR'S BLUNDER. No ruler with a reputation for astuteness has ever done so little to deserve it as the Emperor Napoleon. The Italian war was undertaken for the purpose of humiliating Austria, and at the same time fixing French ascendancy in Italy. It resulted in the creation of a powerful Italian Kingdom which is a perpetual menace to France, for Victor Emanuel, far from being a creature of the Tuileries, is more than half inclined to be an open enemy. Napoleon has earned the lasting hatred of Italians by supporting the Pope in Rome, and the displeasnre of the Pope and the clergy by consenting to the obliteration of the States of the Church. He made Italy formidable, and now finds that he has not a friend in the whole peninsula,. But this is not the worst. Having weakened Austria, he gave Prussia the coveted opportunity to strike a blow, and to his dismay saw the face of Germany suddenly changed, and a tremendous and threatening power rising at his very door. He had not been astute enough to perceive that his most dangerous rival was not Vienna, but Berlin ; he had not compre hended the character of Prussian statesmen, or divined the strength of the Prussian arms, or seen that while Austria was made up of hostile and incongruous elements, the rival German State must inevitably rise to power by the aggregation of kindred populations. The pet scheme of France was to get possession of the Prussian pro vinces on the left bank of the Rhine ; yet in his blind ness. Napoleon smoothed the way for Prussia to make herself the greatest power in Europe. The war of 1866 spewed him his blunder, but he saw at the same time that Prussia was too strong then to be attacked. Mean while he had turned his attention towards America. He threw away the friendship of the United States by marked favours to the Southern Confederacy, and when our hands were full he occupied Mexico, and with much rhetoric about the unity of the Latin races established an empire as illegitimate as his own. This was the greatest of all his blunders. Turned out of the country by order of Mr. Secretary Seward, he saw his Latin empire tumble to pieces, and the unfortunate prince whom he had placed on the throne shot like a traitor. The Mexican adventure was not only a disaster, but a disgrace. Hardly recovered from this, fresh humiliation awaited him in Europe. Having failed to make Austria the instrument of defeat ing Bismarck, he proposed at Berlin a secret treaty even more infamous than the coup d'etat—a treaty by which he declared himself in effect the com mon enemy of Europe. He offered to consent to the Confederation of the German States on condition that Prussia would permit him to as sassinate Belgium and dismember Holland, the infamy of this proposal being heightened by the fact that by a solemn treaty he was under an obliga tion to guarantee Belgian independence. Prussia treated the proposal with disdain; virtually gave him notice that she did not value his assent to the confederation, and would not ask for it. The confederation was to be ac complished whether he liked it or not. Whether the pre sent war is also to be a French blunder it would be use less to predict. if it turn out anything else, it will differ essentially from the Emperor's previous achievements. He certainly has made some mistakes in the mode of begin ning it. By the exposure of the secrect treaty Bismarck has turned upon his adversary the hatred and fear of all the European Powers. By the violence and injustice of the declaration of war Napoleon has sacrificed the moral support of all enlightened men, while his insolence towards Spain has deeply offended the Spanish people, notwith standing the dubious attitude of Spanish statesmen. And of one thing we may be assured; whatever the issue of the contest, the union of North and South Germany, which France so earnestly desires to prevent, is already practi cally accomplished by Napoleon's own act.—New York Tribune. PR ICE d STAMPED 2d THE ELCHO SHIELD AND THE ENFIELD INTERNATIONAL TROPHY. The Lord Mayor of London having, in accordance with the precedent initiated by Scotland, consented to become the custodian of the Elcho Challenge Shield and the Enfield International Trophy, won by the English repre sentatives at the recent Wimbledon meeting, a meeting of the commanding officers of metropolitan corps was held yesterday afternoon, at the offices of the National Rifle Association, Pall Mal], East, for the purpose of considering in what way the presenta tion should be befittingly celebrated. Lieutenant Col. Warde, of the London Rifle Brigade, occupied the chair, and read a letter from Captain Wells, M.P., captain of the English Eight, deprecating the uncere monious manner in which the trophies were usually re ceived in England, and contrasting it unfavourably with the plan invariably adopted in Scotland when the representatives of that country were fortunate enough to carry off the prize. On the motion of Colonel Wilkinson, it was resolved that, if the necessary consent could be obtained, it was desirable that a genero.l muster of the Metropolitan Volunteer forces be be called for Saturday, the 20th instant, at five o'clock, to parade on the Thames Embankment, on the occasion of the public reception of the Elcho Challenge Shield and the Enfield International Trophy, by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. A.committee was formed, who immediately proceeded to the War Office, and secured the necessary permission for carrying out-the ceremony. THE MURDER OF MR. NATHAN. We have published all the details which can at present be ascertained concerning one of the most horrible crimes ever perpetrated in a city whose annals are deeply stained with crime. The story is now becoming painfully familiar by repetition. The other day it was a respected citizen of Milford, Connecticut, who was massacred at dead of night in the attempt to defend his home from robbers. Now it is a well-known resident of our own city whose life has been taken in the same foul and horrible manner. The criminals whom we have among us possess the ferocity of tigers. - They walk hand in hand, every day, with murder. They think no more of shedding human blood than other people do of going to church. They fear no punishment in this world or the next, and so far as this world is concerned, their audacity is too often quite justi fied by the security they enjoy. It is only honest citizens. who are unsafe in New York. We have no doubt that the police will do everything in their power to discover the assassin who has suddenly plunged another family into mourning. We trust that Superintendent Jourdan will receive proper consideration from the public in a task which is manifestly one of extreme difficulty. In a city containing over a million of people, he is instantly called upon to find one par ticular man to whom there is no direct clue. The only person who looked the murderer in the face, and could identify him, is dead. The fugitive will probably read the account of his deed in this morning's papers in common with the rest of the public. The universal craving to bring him to justice ought not to lead to any im patient outcry against the police. They cannot perform miracles. But, while admitting the difficulty of the in vestigation in which they are engaged, we must be allowed to caution them against their besetting weakness. It is the tendency to construct a theory upon the spot, and to follow it up as if it were entitled to the authority of inspiration. No doubtwhatever is entertained that it was a " professional burglar" who committed this frightful deed. Our reporter speaks as if no possible reve lations could change this impression. Nevertheless, there are some circumstances in the case which suggest a dif ferent opinion. Let it be noted that Mr. Nathan had not slept in the house for some little time previous to the night of the murder. Workmen had been employed about the premises, and one or more of them assert that so little was the house watched, that they went in and out without attracting anybody's attention. It was quite possible for anyone who was in the build ing to notice the safe, in which valuables were sup posed to be deposited, and to conclude that, as the family were absent from town, it would be an easy matter to rifle that safe of its contents. The person who deter mined to commit the robbery probably had no idea that Mr. Nathan would sleep in the house that night, and consequently he brought an instrument with him to force open the safe. This instrument was a ship-carpenter's tool—not the sort of weapon a professional burglar carries about with him. It ought not to be utterly beyond the reach of a policeman's ingenuity to trace this tool to its owner. If we may suppose that Mr. Nathan went to his safe before retiring to rest, the conjecture is plausible that the concealed robber saw or heard him do so, and knew where he placed the keys. He then had a shorter way of getting at the safe than by the use of his " iron dog." Seeing the diamond studs and watch lying ready to hand, he took them as the first installment of his booty. That he knew his way about the house, that he had already,informed himself of the position of the safe, and that he understood how to open the front door, is quite manifest from the manner in which he accom plished his work. The man, we repeat, was familiar with the house ; lie also understood all about the fastenings of the door, which ordinarily are intricate enough to puzzle strangers. Even amid the excitement of his crime, the ruffian seems to have made straight for the front door. The perfect method of his proceedings proves, then, that he had been in the house before, and had been enabled to lay his plans with an accuracy upon which he could rely. That no one heard a cry from the fatal room is not sur prising in so large a house. The housekeeper was some distance off, the young men were on another floor, and the young. sleep fast. The assassin carried his iron weapon down stairs with him, prepared, doubtless, to use it again if he found it necessary to do so. He probably knew how improdable it was that when he quitted the house he would encounter a policeman. After what we have said, we shall not be accused of judgir.g the police harshly. But we only assert what everybody who is in the habit of being out late at night can affirm, when we say that a policeman is a very rare object to be met with after twelve o'ciock. Where they all are at night it is not our business to explain. Superinten dent Jourdan has lately discovered that many of them are anywhere but where they should be If Mr. Nathan had been a young man just returning home, we should probably have been told that some one had taken this method to be revenged upon him for a real or fancied wrong. Let a man be attacked in the streets now, and besides his personal injuries he has to sustain the most cruel slanders upon his character. In this case there can be no such injustice done to the dead. Every motive of the crime is clear. The friends of the murderer cannot throw dust in the eyes of the police by alleging that Mr. Nathan provoked his death by his own imprudence or folly. Superintendent Jourdon will doubtless endeavour to find out who were the persons that were enabled to study the house prior to the night of the murder. We cast suspicion upon no man. But if the "professional burglar ' theory is pur sued to the exclusion. of every other, an additional chance of escape will be Offered to the inhuman butcher whom God will surely find . out, even though man's imperfect justice should never reach him.—New York Times, July 30. THE METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA OF THE ATLANTIC RACE. The meteorological phenomena recorded in the logs of both yachts in the late ocean race are very curious and suggestive. The Cambria, for instance, had fifteen days of the twenty-three of the race in which there were more or less rains—heavy rains and gales being the rule. The Dauntless had only seven days marked by rain, but more days of thick, foggy weather than the Cambria. The general course of the Dauntless was about four hundred miles south of the course of the Cambria. The question suggested by these facts are, why these prevailing rains on the Atlantic, while the continents on each side have been subject to a dry, heated term, without a prece lent for half a century in Europe and North America? And why this excess of rain along the northern course of the Cambria ? Our theory is, first, that from an increase of combus tibles drawn into the sun the earth, and especially in its northern hemisphere, is mainly indebted for its ex traordinary droughts and heats of this summer. In the second place, the heat of this season having ex tended further towards the North Pole than usual, an increased quantity of icebergs have been loosened from the shores of Baffin's Bay, and by the Arctic current, which comes down that bay into the main ocean, have been brought out into the Atlantic, where they have acted as condensers (like the Alps and other snow covered mountains) of the vapour from the ocean, which otherwise would be discharged upon the thirsty land on both sides. The Dauntless. having sailed a course south of these icebergs, experienced fewer along for two th the coursedays, r r eli n o y rts d ic a e y b s erg th s a in n of the Dauntless was not the condensing atmosphere of sight.OTT eibartiman,oswphheirceh the route of the Cambria. Hence, while the one ship ex perienced more fog, the other had more rain. Such, briefly, is the best explanation we can give of the metreorological phenomena of this •ocean race in con t ra st with the drought and terrible heats pre vailing at the same time on both sides of the sea. The curious facts thus developed by thi s ocean race open a new field of inquiry to science touching the annual rainfall of the dry land in conne c ti on w ith th e causes operating to increase what we may call the wastage on the sea in one year as compared with another. Let any man of science compare, for exampl e , th e l ogs o f th e Cambria and Dauntless with the weather record of those twenty-three days in the same latitudes on the American and European Atlantic coasts, and he will find a most interesting subject for investigation. —New York, Herald. MERCANTILE FAILURE IN BIRMINGHAM.—The Birntincham, Gazette announces the suspension of payment of the well-known firm of Kynoch and Co., of Birming ham, ammunition manufacturers, with liabilities amount ing to £60,000. We understand that assets are consider able, and that a very favourable realisation is anticipated. A meeting of creditors has been called for the 24th inst. more TO of with ence, r, by rious n ac- ned zke ent nd, lue