The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-19 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM CHAMBER of COMMERCE. at all in case less than that number are employed) is unjust and unsatisfactory." After a few words from Mr. Dixon, M.P., the report as above amended was adopted. The half-yearly meeting of this body was held on Thursday evening—Alr. J. S. Wright, the Pre sident, in the chair. The report was merely a resume of the Parliamentary and other business in which the Chamber has taken a part during the last Miscellaneous Foreign News. six months. In moving its adoption, the CuairmAN referred to the Bankruptcy Bill brought in by the late Attorney-General, which, he said, was the best that had emanated from any Government ; it pro posed to restore the power to creditors—to place a bankrupt's affairs very much in their own hands, and it gave them power to have the estate wound up in the cheapest and most economical manner outside of the Court. It enabled them to put up the winding up of the estate to com petition, and to select the best party to wind up the estate. There was, also, he be lieved, a provision made for the payment of a suffi cient dividend before the baukrupt could get his discharge. The features in the bill were very thankfully received by commercial people generally. There were some things - about it that they would have liked to see improved. It made the passage through court by insolvents too easy. It allowed too great freedom to any one to go into court. It seemed to contain a little of the feeling which an ofll,.:ial assignee had expressed when somebody was deprecating bankrupts. He rather opposed that de precation, and said, " W hp, they are ourbest friends." The bill appeared to be drawn up a little too much in favour of insolvents. Then there was the fear that it gave too much power to officials. There were too many references to the courts. The failing of the bill appeared to be hat there were no proper provi udu- sions for the punitshment of reckless and fra lent debtors. Till they could get some more stringent Clause —something that would really punish a man who had recklessly squandered and wasted the property of his creditors —they would never have a satisfactory bankruptcy law. He did k now whether they were ripe for that yet- - whethe r public opinion was quite prepared for it. He was almost inclined to think that they had something to charge against themselves in that matter. Before they could get a right state of things they must have in society a higher moral tone with reference to such matters. He thought that until they should taboo to a certain extent the man who had squandered his creditors' property recklessly —the man who had traded upon other people's eapital in a wild and _ speculative manner—until they could, outside of the law courts, place that man in his proper position, they could not get Parliament to do it. Parliament, at the best, could only be a reflection of the state of so ciety. In England bankrupts lost hardly any of their prestige, and they might go on the third and fourth time in the same course of conduct. Till society at large put down that sort of thing, and till they placed a fraudulent bankrupt much in the same category as a man convicted of larceny, there could not bea right state of things. He did not fear for Englishmen generally becoming too hard upon those who, through inadvertence or misfortune, be came insolvent. He had never found any num ber of gentlemen who were not willing to extend help to those who, by things over which they had no control, had got into difficulties. But how few were such cases ! The cases of bankruptcy through unavoidable misfortune and fair trading were scarcely one per cent. cf the whole that happened in the country. He hoped that during the few months that would elapse before Parliament again assembled they would occupy themselves in enforc ing the importance of such changes in the bank ruptcy laws. It was no use letting professional etiquette stand in the way. They must impress upon Government, as they had done before, the fact that they wanted the Scotch system introduced d there. in Eng land as nearly as possible tl3 it operate Nothing less would satisfy the commercial com munity. In reference to the Factories and Workshops Bill, he said he regretted, with a great many others, that these very important measures had not re ceived a large share of attention. (Hear, hear.) Ile had 110 doubt that thousands of manufac turers in London would be affected by that bill, and he believed he might safely say that there were not 21 per cent. of them who had any idea that a bill was being passed that would affect them as that bill did. That bill, which had passed the third reading, would affect from 5,000 to 7,000 workshops and factories in Birmingham, some 5,00 failies, from 150,000 to 200,000 persons in th o e t o own, a m nd all over the country it would bear directly upon a million and a half of th e working population. And yet there would be no offence on the part of one em ploying fewer hands. It seemed to him the most bungling attempt at legislation that ever the House of Commons had made. He should. not claim to be a prophet, but it would be impossible for these two Acts to work for any considerable time-concur rently in one place. Ile was quite aware that the intention of these bills was to promote education and to reduce the hours of labour of children. He believed the manufacturers of Birmingham were generally opposed to these tills, as was shown by the petition which Mr. Bright pre sented from a large number of the leading -manufacturers, and from a great number of the work people of the town. If it were found that they did promote the education of children, and did not prove seriously injurious to the incomes of poor families, they should all rejoice; but if their operation resulted otherwise, the bills would necessarily require to be amended. The present was a very dangerous time to b 3 making r,strictions on the labour-market. Trade was bad, and the united earnings of father, mother, and even of the children, were in many cases barely sufficient to get the necessaries of life. Foreign competition was every day increasing upon them. There they had to a great extent unrestricted labour to contend with, and at rates such as that the foreign manufacturer could employ men for what the Eng lish employer could scarcely afford to give to women. It was a very critical time to introduce such inno vations, and whether they could carry them out without great injury to their trade was a matter upon which they would soon be able to speak with experience. Mr. JOHN LOWE supported the resolution for the adoption of the report. Until (lie said) they had in this country the trial by jury of every fraudulent baekrupt—a trial at the expense of Government — they might depend upon it they should not be able to punish vagabond tradesmen as they deserved. In regard to the extension of the Factory Acta, he did not think that they were ripe for legislation on the matter. With such a large number of small manufacturers the matter would require to be dealt with very carefully, or a great mischief would be done. Mr. SamrsoN LLOYD said in reference to the' Factory Acts that the question whether parents' earnings were affected or not by the labour of their children employed in manufactories was not at all the first consideration even with the parents them selves—certainly not with the temperate, well-edu cated portion of the working classes. Wise legis lative interference for the protection and education of their children was what they desired, and it would be a pity for the Chamber to assume an inde fensible attitude with regard to the actual facts, and towards the public, by expressing themselves too strongly against the Factory Acts. He moved the folloWing on this subject for insertion in the report Two bills on this subject have been under con sideration of Parliament during this session, and will in all probability become law. The minute intedcrence proposed by these bills with the free and hitherto unrestricted labour of this district may involve serious consequences, and it is to be regretted that these consequences have not received suffir' cient attention from the parties most interested. Your council do nit object to the principle of legis lative protection being given to young children and women, as respects excessive hours of labour ; but they deem it highly important that due regard should be paid in the legislative provisions which give that protection to the peculiar circumstances of the manufacturers of this district. Your council also consider that the decision of the House of Com mons (by which the same trade is placed under two distinct laws, making that penal in case more than 50 workpeople aro- employed, which is no offence object proposed being by means of representatives in every town in France to effect a rapprochement between the producer and consumer, the fabricant and the purchaser, at first-hand, and unshackled by the various heavy intermediary profits which at present render it so difficult to procure a genuine article at a reasonable price. Paris is at present the (From Correspondents of the Anglo-American Times.) central depot for the placement, if I may use such PARIS, Aug. 15. an expression, of the products and merchandise Many years ago when I was a small boy reading o f F r ance, but the advantages offered by the society Caesar at the grammar school, I came to a passage will be far more thoroughly felt and appreciated in which announced that Caesar had gone into winter its extension by and bye to other countries, and quarters. Not perfectly understanding the meaning especially to England and America. A few illus of the phrase, I ventured to ask the usher. That trations will probably here explain to the reader the great man being fortunately in a good humour, objects and value of this society. A wine grower probably in consequence of the close approach of of the Cote d'Or (the richest and finest district of the winter vacation, facetiously informed me that the wines of Burgundy), of Epernay, or of Bor- Cxear, like myself and others, went home for the deaux, wishes to find a market for his champagne, Christmas holidays, with which explanation I was Burgundy, or claret, and even in France it is satisfied, thinking within myself that Caesar was per- astonishing what difficulties exist in this point of fectly justified, and that his going home for the boll- view. A farmer of Calvados or the Manche has days, and leaving the Bituriges, the Caturiges, and some 10,000 kilogrammes of flour to dispose of ; the the Allobroges, and a host ofpther ruffians, whose Representant of the Society for either of these names alone were sufficiently troublesome (at least places writes to his colleague at Paris, and at the I know they were to me) to fight their own battles, wine or flour halls the market is speedily found. was one of the wisest possible courses he could On the other hand, whatever may be the special adopt. I little thought then that another Caesar produce required in any town of France, wines, would write the history of the first, or that I should silks, laces, &c., a letter despatched from the live to witness the meaning of my friend the assist- Representaut Director at Paris is sure to obtain ant's waggery, or practically confirmed and illus- immediate attention, and the most advantageous trated in the departure of his Imperial Majesty market. Neither are these advantages confined to Napoleon the Third for winter quarters in camp at wholesale commerce, for the Society, whilst thus Chalons. His Majesty left Paris on Thursday last, assisting the large dealers, does not fear to extend being accompanied as far as the Eastern Railway its assistance to the public at large. Thus, for Station by the Empress and the Prince Imperial, instance, does a private family require a small cask and was received at Mourmelon by General Lad- or a few cases of wine, the agent is equally atteu mirault, commandant of the camp, at the head of tive, and procures the same genuine quality, the 'his staff. The arrival of the Emperor at the camp, same advantageous market for the purchase of a which had been attended with the greatest impa- few gallons as for one who may take the whole tience by the soldiery, was saluted with the most produce of the year from the grower. It will make enthusiastic acclamations. the matter still clearer to the reader if I give him Their Majesties the Kings of Sweden and an idea of what wines and brandies of the first Portugal, as also their Excellencies the Princes Charles and Albert of Prussia , had p reviousl y taken quality cost in France, as co m p ared with the enor mous prices given both in America and England leave of their Imperial host. The departure of the frequently for an inferior article. As regards cham y Emperor for Chalons, where he will be joined b the Empress, who will then lea ve with him fur Salz- pagne, it is a very prevalent but very grave error to believe that only three or four marks arc worth pur bourg, is regarded as a notification of his with- chasing—a belief, whilst it has the effect of rendering drawal from his public connexion with the Exposi- these few wines enormously dear, acts in a most un tion, and it is therefore probable that Paris will just and injurious manner upon the other pro receive no more visits from foreign potentates, un- prietors, who can pro duce a wine equally good. An less they assume an incognito. In accor dance with excellent c ham p a g ne may be purchased of the this view of the case the Viceroy of Egypt, who had grower even in small quantities at half-a at -c ro wn much bottle, in the case of wholesale dealing, a intended to return to Paris for the fe tes of the 15th andl6th, left on Saturday last forTo ulon,whence lower c ost. From lfr. to 3fr.—that is to say, from he will proceed to Constantinople in his yacht the 10d. to half-a-crown —one may purchase even at Mahrousa. Though the brilliancy of its attractions C oenac a quart (French) of the finest brandy at be thus in a measure diminished, the Exposition . has completed the great preliminary objects for I , entities of 100 litres, or sale ordinarily is by qu . , some 50 to 58 deg. of strength. The method of which it is designed, as well as powerfully influenced others in a more indirect manner. With regard 'i but, of course, it is very easy to obtain a dozen ' quarts, equivalent to 22 gallons English measure, to the latter there can be no doubt of its having 1 cases . I may possibly return on soothe r occa exerted considerable influence in the most beneficial \ sion to this subject, but in the meantime I will manner upon the peace prospects of Europe ; whilst conclude with mentioning that all letters requiring in respect to the former it ha s effected a cordial 1 information on this sub j ect addressed to the Direc rapprochement of nearly all the nations of the earth. tion of the Society , t he Union of Commerce and Aided by the presence and exam p le of the rulers Industry, 21, Rue Vivienne, Paris, will receive im themselves, it has brought hither the princes and me diate attention. people of the extreme Eas t, a g ain to be followed up An International competition has recently taken by the establishment of E uro p ean colleges and place at the Imperial Farm, Vinc ennes, for mowin g , insti- . tut , !ons in those hit herto sealed regions; it has reaping, &c. The following prizes have fallen to 1 she wn, and ligh ted, and smoothed the path of the lot of our American friends : Reap in g Machines 1 (worked by five horses). — lst prize, M'Corinick, f u ture pro g ress ; it ha s has sown the good seed, and h owe ver long or short m a y be the remaining duration Chicago, Illinois ; 3 d, Wood , N ew York. liar of the Universal Exhibition of 1867, it remains rows.—lst prize, Wood, New York ; 2d, Perry, only for the devotion, and study, and labour Rhode Island ; 3d, M'Cormick, Chicago, Illinois. of practical men, to assure and confirm, so Hay Tedder (honourable mention).—Silas C. Iler far as may be, the advantages it has opened , ring, New York. up. France is fortunate in her Minister of ' A subscription has been opened at the principal Public Instruction, and from indirect allu ' : banking-houses in Paris, and a t the office of the sions made by M. Duruy, on the occas i o n of Franco-Anzerican, 21 , Rue Viv ienne, near the awarding the educational prizes, it is believed that ' Bourse, in aid of the American C olon y at Jaffa, the Prince Imperial, who has commenced his educa - , Syria, who make an urgent app eal to their country tion under the charge of a private tutor (M. Mon - men for help. They infor m, us that their pier), will continue his studies at the P ublic remains now in the colony only 70 members, Lyceums of France.. M. le General Frossarcl will governor of the Prince, whilst who have been bro u g ht to utter destitution by continue to be the M. Monnier will be called to the discharge of other . misfortune, sickness , and the failure of the harvest, on which they depended even to the latest moment. duties. \ They arc without provisions, without money, with- Berezowski, whose departure had been announced out medicines or medical advice. Their case is in more than one journal, is, however, still in Paris. It is not until the ensuing mo nth that he will be urgent, as it is evident t hat unkss relief be speedily afforded them they must succumb under the united transferred to Toulon, where be will be placed at the Guzane Francaise ; the injuri es that he received attack of disease and famine. This a pp eal is veri , fied by the official statement of the United States' are not yet entirely cured ; he is not therefore sub- . Consul-General at Alexandria and at Jerusalem, jetted to any labour. His conduct since his impri- \as well as by the verbal testimony of Dr. W. 11. sonment leaves no room for reproach. I Bidwell, special agent of the United States Govern- The programme of the fete of the 15th, as giv en went, sent to investigate the affairs of the colony. in the Moniteur, is as follows : —The fete of the day i There is no doubt that our friends will respond w ill take place at the Trocadero an d the Barriere , heartily to a call like the present. du Trone. At one o'clock a solemn mass will be I The King and Queen of Portugal, with the Duke celebrated at the Cathedral Church of Notre Dame. of Coimbra, and their suite, left Paris on Monday At the same hours the various theatres and circuses last for Bordeaux, where great preparations ar e will be opened gratuitously to the p ublic. In the I making for their reception. From Bordeaux their evening all the public pro menades, gardens, and ; Majesties will reach Madrid by special train. The grand musical festival of the Orpheons of France took place on Monday last at the Cirque de l'lm monuments will be illuminated. At half- pas t seven i 1 peratrice. Many of the pieces were enthusiastically a second representatio n will be g iven at the mili tary theatres of the Trocadero and Place du Trone. Die Sultan has arrived at Constantinople, where ; encored. •• Two Feux d'Artifiee will be discharged, the one at the Place du Trone, the other at the Arc de , I'Etoile. great rejoicings have taken place to celebrate his On Saturday, the 10th, an instance was afforded return from a of the practical manner in wh i c h the benefits of the amongst ' displays an illuminegasttiotnhe infidels.o ntheßo Amongst glstt is s ot s h ai e d r Exposition are to be worked o ut in an interesting 'that one of the first matters with which his Majesty • will occupy himself will be conference by M. P. Nicol upon the Maritime Inter to oe eu rtrheadt this s Saint w eekCyr. calculated national Exposition, to take place at Ha vre in 1868. military college similar A curious incident the foundation of a Amongst the many princely visit ors of Paris the i Prince Humbert, eldest son of V ictor Emmanuel, i to place a distinguished lawyer of Paris on the horns . a ppears to excite the greatest attractio n and g ood- of a dilemma. Visiting the Jardin des Plantes in 1 ' will, especially amongst the m ilitar y p ortion of company with a friend, whilst his attention ; on was the population. This is owing to various reasons. fixed on one of the cages, a hand glided softly into In the first instance, the Prince has come to Paris I almost unattended, save by two veteran Generals. lie has assumed no incognito, and mixes freely i his pocket, and his portemonnaie. T I not escaped the vigilanceretired, tr o a f ns t it h i e on a , ge h o o t \ s v , ev a e o r d , had the , with the Parisians ; in the second, he is the brother 1 of the Princess Clotilde, wife of the Prince Napo leon ; and, lastly, he is the son of Victor Emmanuel, and has himself fought side by side with his father Poste. Oa his arrival, his intended victim, ‘ 1 , r d e o t e a e i n t i h n e g lo him o for of l h a is w i al, and finding the quality of arrested and conducted to the he at once wrote to the lawyer to accept the brief, defence. If bar etiquette in in the ranks of the French army during the Italian 1 1 all events, be provided with a queer client. war. This incident, in which the King commanded I he will, at in person the 3 d Regiment of Zo uaves, occurred as The v illage of Serehass, Saone et Loire, has been follows :—The Austrians having learnt that Palestro thrown into great consternation during the last was garrisoned only by the 4 th Br i ga de of the Sap- week by the depredations of an enormous she wolf. dinian army, under the co mmand of Cieldini, . It appears that not only the pangs of hunger in the marched an overwhelming force to the attack. At winterincrease and exasperate the ferocity and the critical moment, however, arrived the regiment boldness of this animal, but that in the summer the of Zonaves, and, putting himself at their head, care of providing for the young, incite it to an equal Victor Emmanuel, by a brilliant and well-executed ~ t I ( f hardihood. One evening last week an aged .., e pi e i ) charge, redeemed the fortunes of the day. 'i i ' woman who had been occupied in the borders of the Zouaves were so pleased with the personal bravery woo d of Meillerage, in the cultivation of her patch and companionship of the King that, at a solemn of vineyard, accompanied by a little grandchild consultation over time bivouac fire, they decreed to of about four years of age, happening to look round his Majesty the title of Corporal of honour in the saw what she considered to be an enormous sheep -3d Regiment of Zouaves, a distinction which Victor dog creeping round towards the infant. Thinking Emmanuel accepted with great gusto, and it is said that the play of the supposed dog would be too ranks amongst his most special military orders. A rough, the woman placed the child on her shoulder, murder was committed on Saturday evening last by when the immediate attack of the disappointed a young Artilleryman of the 10th, on the person of animal at once showed the foe with which she had his sweetheart. The soldier, who is named Thomare, to contend. The woman, however, faced the wolf had been imprisoned a few days for some fault he boldly, retreating backwards towards her house, had committed. During his incarceration he had the wolf following, growling, and snapping been informed that he had been supplanted ev ery now and then at the legs of the child. in the good -graces of the fair one by his ser g eant, It is difficult to say what would have been the result and being' - a man of violent temper, he promised himself to take an immediate revenge upon the con-to the rescue, when the come firmation of the report. Being discharged from had not a neiehbou r, who was passing armed with a scythe, fortunately animal was driven off. A general pursuit was at prison on the Saturday, he betook himself to the , woadwoadof Vincennes, where he arrived about nine has been seriously ill from the terrible fright she o'clock in the evening, and almost immediately saw once organised hut in vain. The p oor old woman had experienced. his - fickle fair one upon the arm of his comrade. On his appearance she quitted the arm of the ser geant fur that of Thomare, who walked with her for , some time amongst the trees. At I.ngth as they approached one whose foliage was thicker than or dinary, placing his arm around her, he drew her towards him with a gesture of the tenderest fami liarity. At the same moment he drove into her left l-,iyAt,hheiadveiantgli beenof th e struckv i ctimwwi with b i n r s e t a a s n t t a a n d e a o g u g s e , r the knife b such force as to pierce the shoulder blade through and through. The murderer was immediately se cured and confined in the Fort of Vincennes. The body of the victim was conveyed to the Morgue. I have had the pleasure from time to time to signal to the reader and public at large, some mat ters which appeared to me to possess either a useful or interesting character. Ido not know that I can do hotter in my present letter than to speak of a society recently established in France under the title of the. Union of Commerce a - 41 Industry, the Before I fulfil my promise of giving a faithful description of the Dui/Jeri/cry, I must say a word to the wise, which an old adage observes " sufficient to them." Old adages do sometimes make mistakes ; therefore, instead of one word, I will utter two, " Inca culpa." This is th e briefest confession of all the worst crimes ever heard of. When a Mexican robber plunders a man and shoots him afterwards, he says " mea culpa," and there is an end of it—nothing more can be expected of him. I trust that this recipe for pardonwill exonerate me, as I have only committed myself —not man slaughter. I said in my last correspondence that the financial transactions between the French Government and Mr. W. 11. Webb, the builder of the Danderberg, had been confided to Messrs. Tucker and Co. in Paris, and I was led to believe this, knowing that they had purchased the plates for Mr. Webb'; two Italian vessels, and I had the despatch meaning elscted governor by a majority of 60,000. Mr. Galtoday fills the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Hise as member of Congress. Mr. Edward E. Dunbar has written to the New York Times in defence of Juarez. Of his descent that gentleman speaks as follows :—" Taking the now remaining Toltecs as one family, Juarez can trace a pure lineage, clear and distinct, a great ways further back than the Hapsburg family. He comes from the mysterious regions of Mitla in Oajaca, where the winds sweep mournfully through the stately groves of cypress that shade the graves of the kings of his ancient people—graves whose dates are lost in the unknown past." Personally, he con siders Juarez to be a man of great polish, compar ing favourably in this respect with Maximilian, while in scope of intellect, solid acquirements, and all those qualifications that constitute the true statesman be far surpassed him. Such comparisons are out of place ; the world will consider, and history will record, the one as the murderer, the other as the murdered. Another last address of Maximilian has been pub lished. If the unfortunate Prince wrote and spoke the last addresses attributed to him, the period of his imprisonment must have been fully occupied. There is nothing so touching as the two words he uttered immediately before his death, " Poor Carlotta." The proclamation which has been placarded over Mexico bears too clearly the stamp of its origin to deceive any one except the miserable things who are now rejoicing in the grand exploit of having executed a European Prince. The shooting of Castillo and other Imperialist offi cers at Queretaro is confirmed, as well as of Vidaurri at the capital. Canales and Gomez were creating anxiety and causing much trouble in Tamaulipas and forces were moving into the district to crush them. Documents have been published authorita tively showing that the late Emperor Maximilian made a proposision to Juarez through the United States Government offering to retire from Mexico until the permanency of the Empire could be decided by the people. Mr. Seward declined to entertain the proposition, not recognising the right of Maxi milian to represent any portion of the empire. Juarez, it was thought, would be re-elected to the Presidency by the unanimous voice of the people. The body of the late Emperor bad been given up to Baron Magnus, the Prussian Ambassador. The Austrian screw-frigate Novara had arrived at Gib raltar, and left on the 30 th July, for Vera Cruz, to receive the remains. Admiral Palmer proceeded to the City of Mexico, it is said, to demand the person of Santa Anna, who is still a prisoner at Campeachy. Vera Cruz continued healthy. The Consuls (except the United States') had lowered their flags. Marquez, the brother of Miramon and other generals, were organising a large force in the mountains. The canvas for the Presidency was progressing quietly. The Austrian frigate Eliza beth- was about to return to New Orleans, as the Mexican authorities were said to have refused to surrender to the commander the body of the late Emperor Maximilian. By the cable, however, as above stated, we learn the remains had been handed over to the Prussian Ambassador. General Sheridan removed Governor Throck morton, of Texas, and appointed in his place ex- Governor Pease, a lawyer, a native of Connecticut, and a good Union man. This he did on the plea of Mr. Throckmorton's opposing the State Convention and impeding reconstruction. He also removed certain of the aldermen and assistant-aldermen of New Orleans for malfeasance, and for opposing the reconstruction laws. The Virginia Republican State Convention, which adjourned at Richmond on the 2d instant, endorsed the general's action, alluding to the embarrassments thrown around Sheridan by the President. The press reiterate the statement that the President has determined to remove Sheri dan, and even that be had consulted at least two Generals, who plainly told him that they would pursue exactly the same course as Sheridan, if appointed his successor. The news by the Persia gives the additional information that Sheridan has removed the city treasurer of New Orleans, and appointed his successor. Generals Sherman, W. S. Harney, and Alfred 11. Terry have been appointed military members of the New Indian Commission by the President. They were to meet those named by Congress at St. Louis last week to organise and get to work on their duties to make a permanent peace with the Indians. The hostility of the Red Men has in no degree slack ened, and constant attacks have been made on small isolated parties. Even on the route between Salt Lake City and Denver coaches have been attacked, and the Big Pond station burned. The inquiry into the whipping of soldiers and civilians at Fort Sedg wick has shown the reports to have been much ex aggerated. Cholera prevails at Fort Harker, Fort Gibson, and Fort Larned. At Ellsworth, Kansas, it is so fatal and rapid that nine out of ten attacked die in from two to fifteen hours. The town is de serted, and the Indians will, it is expected, de stroy it. As generally anticipated, the jury empannelled to try Surratt could not be made to agree on a verdict, and have in consequence been dismissed. The trial had assumed so political a complexion that it was reasonable to expect such a result. There is neither a verdict of " not guilty" nor even of " not proven," as there might have been in Scotch law; so the world will adhere to its own opinion, and there can be little doubt that the mass of the American people will hold that even if there was not sufficient evidence upon which to convict Surratt, there was abundance to show he was in connexion with the gang who perpetrated one of the greatest crimes of the pre sent century. We believe that Mr. Lincoln was beyond all comparison the most worthy ruler who an assassin's hand. A crime more ever died by unprovoked, less warranted by circumstances, more idiotic, it would be difficult to conceive. However high party spirit may run, there is but one opinion on this subject, and wherever Surratt may go, be is not likely to be welcomed as a hero. Broadhead and Crookes may have their admirers, but the world has not yet descended to the low ebb of baseness that can associate anything but what is vile with the conspiracy that cut short the most useful career, of one of the greatest patriots the United States have ever produced. An important decision has just been given by the Supreme Court of Michigan, in the case of the Western Union Telegraph Company versus Carew, on appeal from the Wayne County Circuit Court. These are the circumstances : —Carew telegraphed to Baltimore for forty cases of oysters. In the transmission an error occurred whereby he received four cases instead of forty. The message was written on one of the telegraph blanks, with the usual printed heading containing the conditions on which messages are taken for transmission. The Circuit Court held that the telegraph company were liable for the damage suffered by Carew, treating the company as common carriers, and Carew as not bound by the conditions, unless his attention was particularly called to them. The question before the Court of Appeal was whether Telegraph Companies were common carriers. If such they were bound by the laws regulating those companies. The Supreme Court ruled that a tele graph company is not a common carrier. The Court further decided that they had a right to establish reasonable rules to govern their liability in the impartial transmission of messages—that the sender, who wrote his message on a paper at whose head was plainly printed in conspicuous letters the terms on which the company undertook to forward the message, was bound by those terms, whether he reads them or not, as it is his own negligence if he fails to notice them. The adjournment of Congress—the advent of the h"ated term, and the exodus of many of the leading politicians to Europe—have combined to make things dull in the United States. Speakers are dis cussing, newspapers are writing, on the coming man who is to be the next President. The Re publican Central Committee of New York has nominated General Grant. Senator Nilson made a speech at Saratoga, when he stated that the people would vote either for Grant, or Sheridan, or Thomas, Chase, Colfax, or brave old Ben Wade. He assured his hearers that "no man who opposed the cause of the country during that war, no man who opposed emancipation, no man who opposes the civil rights of the emancipated race, no roan who opposes lieep Narage l will ever be rre. the arrival of the Dunderberg at the above bankers. On requesting the favour of more information I was told thatMr.Tucker hadbeen called to Cherbourg, and by forming too hasty conclusions of what was said around me, incurred the necessity of declaring for the sake of correct information that Mr. Tucker disclaims having had any financial matter to trans act concerning the sale of the Dunderberg. I con gratulate him heartily on the subject. That such a magnificent vessel should be bought by the French Government at all must be a painful consideration to true Americans, and it will be all the more so after the following description. In 1863 the Government at Washington awarded to Mr. Webb a contract to furnish a vessel to be built upon his own plans, such that her formida bility would render the Naval arm of the United States invincible. Ile was required to deal promptly with his contract, and at the same time to meet all the new phases that were being developed in Ord nance and Naval Gunnery, and also notice the sug gestions of the Department, which were at times in direct opposition to his designs. For this reason the completion of the vessel was prolonged beyond the time anticipated. When the vessel was ready for delivery, as peace reigned in the United States, and the causes which gave rise to her construction were no longer operative, the vessel, without passing into the hands of the Government, remained the property of Mr. Webb, and was finally sold to France. Tier keel was laid in the summer of 1863, and considering the new features engrafted in her construc tion and internal works she was launched in the remarkably short period of two years. She is the largest vessel of war afloat, and is constructed with a view to unite all the ele ments of power and resistance ; for the purposes of the former she carries the heaviest marine battery in the world ; her bow is solid and surmounted by a heavy iron prow, constructed to take a vessel below the water-line; for the latter purpose her sides are solid and 7 feet through, which themselves are protected by 31, inches of mailed armour of the first quality. Upon the upper deck is built a case mate 8 feet in height and 200 feet in length, and of a thickness of nearly 4 _feet, and protected g a l e v i renders ra by 41- inches of forged iron. The sides of the ca semate incline to the deck at au angle of 1 1 6 th 0 at de t g n s is ., it an hg e n been der s i t shown pe b ti y eal e l x y perimen impos sible for a projectile to secure penetration. The Dunderberg has great speed, and need not, except from choice, subject herself to a combat at short range. The weight of her ordnance gives her the advantage of distance, and her ram provides her with a serviceable weapon at close quarters. She is so easy in steering, and shows such subordination to the helm, that she can be worked in the heaviest sea-way by a single man. She has two rudders both aft, and designed when working in concert to give the vessel a facility s and ease in movement not ordinarily attained in vessels of her class, but so well has one answered the purposes of both that it has never been found necessary to put both to use. She has a pilot-house forward of the thick ness of eight inches, and all the appliances for work ing the vessel in time of action without exposing in the least the lives of any one on board. The ven tilation and comfort of her quarters were tested during her passage to France, and nothing could be more satisfactory than the accounts given by those on board. The most hopeful anticipations of all were exceeded by her behaviour and superiority over other vesels in a heavy sea, and had it not been for the bad weather encountered in the passage the time from New York to Cherbourg would have been materially shortened. As it was, the period of 14 days 17 hours from port to port may well be con sidered remarkable. The Dunderberg is 378 feet long, is 73 breadth of beam a.midship, and has more available deck surface than any war vessel ever built. She displaces 7,000 tons of water, has two engines of 5,000 horse-power each, and a screw of 21 feet in diameter. She has an overhang extend ing for a distance of 25 feet over her stern, which is designed to protect her rudders and propeller from the fire and ram of an enemy, and which acts in a heavy sea as a breakwater. Though built upon a new model, and constructed upon entirely new prin ciples as regards attack and defence, the Dttiukrbery has in a voyage of great severity decided the supe riority of the former, and it only remains for an opportunity to fulfil the expectations of the latter. It is to be hoped that the above description will be found as interesting to my usual readers (chiefly ladies) as the details I have sometimes entered into on revolvers, breech-loaders, fishing-tackle, and other masculine apparatus. Why womenshould not be as well initiated in the appliances of a vessel as in those of a dwelling-house has not been satisfac torily proved, and before I leave what in society is called "arduous questions," because anything me chanical is perversely called arduous, I must men tion the chronometers, clocks, and watches which no man-of-war should be without—watches which have been adopted by the managers of our Railway Companies, and for the service of the guards on all the principal lines. They have also been patronised and adopted by the lung of Italy, the Maharajah of Burdwan, the Raja of Curnba, and the Govern ments of Bombay and Madras. Mr. Walker, of 230, Regent-street, and 68, Cornhill, is the inventor of .the crystal case watch and clock in question. They are remarkable for solidity, elegance, and precision, never break even when thrown from a considerable height to the ground, and the watches especially are of invaluable worth to officers in the army or navy. They are either made of gold or silver, the dial being protected by a flat crystal glass covering, most ingeniously adapted in order to avoid the casting of shade on the surface. Eighteen of these watches having been stolen in 1865 from Mr. Walker's warehouse, Corn hill, they were thrown by th e guilty fugitives from the top of Blackfriars-bridge into the Thames. Twelve were recovered with the assistance of llenicke's diving apparatus ; and of the twelve, seven in crystal cases, had neither been broken nor damaged ; the other five were of course shattered, the water having penetrated through the broken g l as ses. I\h. Walker has received many medals, and the medal of honour, especially at the Exhibi tion of 1862. A visit to his stand at the Champs de Mars will be found very interesting, as some of his ladies' watches are perfect jewels, the same in vention being applied to them as to the immense pieces of clock-work which he executes for railway companies. On looking over time catalogue, Ise is stand is to be found in Class 23., The news by the Persia is to the morning of the 7th August. Gen era l Si c kles has ordere d the post ponement of the re assem bling of the N orth Caro lina Legislatur e un til further notice , and has directed the jury lists are rev i se d. General Pope has ordered suspension of trial by j ur y until the all civil suits against officers for acts done in pur suance of military orders to be abandoned. The State military authorities of Tennessee have assured the protection of all negroes discharged by Con servative employers for voting the Radical ticket. The Union meeti ng held at Coving ton, Kentucky, on the evening of the 3d inst., wa s dispersed by a mob. Negro t roops , armed and eq ui pp ed, partici pated iu the Radical procession at Prattsville, Ala bama, on the 3d inst. The most important cable intelligence is to the effect that President Johnson had pressed Mr. Stanton to resign the Secretaryship of War ; that Mr. Stanton had refused ; whereupon Mr. Johnson had suspended him, and appointed General Grant to act in his place. The re-election of Gover nor Brownlow has passed off without the anticipa ted riots in Tennes see. On the 30th of July a fight took place at Purdy between a party of " gorillas," as their op ponents insist upon calling the m, and a company of State militia. Brownlow's majority* was 30,000, a number he boasted he would secure. The Demo crats have, however, carried the Kentucky elections. It is possible that the movement of United States troops from Kentucky into Tennessee, under orders from General Grant, has had its effect in prevent ing riot. The World termed this preparation against an unlawful outbreak a monstrous violatio , of the Constitution, as the Tcnnesce Lewis' had not called for the troops.. The triumph of the Democrats in Kentucky has balanced that of the Itepublicaus in Tennessee, 'qr. IlAra has Deo, ature silent of the United States again." This _ Convention will not sit for a year, and the un- As harvest operations have now commenced in th. fortunate man now nominated will have to stand a South of England the weather has some influence upon all battery of abuse for all that period. Already Grant Stock Exchange securities. With fine weather, about an is the object of attack. He commands a power average crop may still be secured, but with wet weather wholly independent of party, as the great Northern the damage will be so much greater, as many fields have General. The design of the Democrats as giving been laid by the late storms. The fear of a bad harvest and sn the tr general t. want of confidence prevents n 3 them their only chance, appears to be to nominateprevents many busi ness transactions, and although the tendenm .s a .f - a bl ls voiii e him. It is said that General Butler engaged a d e- of a rise at the pre sent low quotations, still any advance in tective officer to keep Grant constantly in sight, Iprice brings in sellers. Foreign stocks have been very and the unfortunate individual selected for this much neglected, and the attempt to bring out new loans agreeable office got well thrashed by one of the in the present state of the money market, is most im- Geneial's friends. Mr. Wade's ill-judged speech in prudent. It is believed that scarcely a single public Kansas is not yet forgotten, nor is it likely to be. subscription has been sent in f d or t.he has new b Russian loan, General Sheridan, if removed from his command, a d n , d )r t e l e ii: „. o t t - t o , only o effect ' o utf two t . r pt:ro cent. t ninthe e on xis t t i o ng cau u s u e s. a will obtain a fair start. But changes in the United sia. i n Stocks. A hope is generally expressed that the States are so rapid, that a fair start early in the race system of bringing out loans in rapid succession—each is almost sure to be fatal to the competitor. There i new one at a lower price than its predecessor, will thus are people who think that the man is compara- have received a check. It is surprising that any respectable tively unknown, who is destined to fill Mr. John- firm can venture to bring out any loan at a time that all description of stocks are more offered for sale than bought. son's place. To invite public subscriptions at such times must end in The Quaker City, with G 5 American excursionists, failure ; and how can the public be expected to subscribe arrived at Naples last week, and was put into 600,000 obligation bonds of £2O each, even at the price quarantine for seven days. A large portion of her of £l2 55., when Brazilian 5-per-cent. stock is at 75, and Chili 6-per-cent. at 82 , and every o ther forei g n stock at passe ngers on hearing to what they would be sub- ab n o d u no t the n same w t to bEroverf3-tsotnoctkunretausinreast rest, jetted landed at Civita Vecchia , an d man y of them l, came by land from Naples. They expe cted to sta y as the oldes-per-cent.g stocks shall brought gone up again to 12 days, of which seven were to be passed in quaran- par. But business men seem to have no consideration for tine. the ruin they bring down upon the public that have had At Pekin have just been struck, as an experiment sufficient confidence to subscribe to these foreign loans, in monetary reform, pieces of gold and silver in and who are daily exposed to see their stocks fall sto 10 conformity with the French system, of the value of per cent. by the issue of some new stock at that lol . v t 20f., 5f., and lf. These coins have , o n one side, i d s ise t e h u e nt e . red lf t theof Russia. credit of anylt appears sy that requires dnr i nrest,g the the cipher of the present Sovereign of China, and, last eight years no less than six loans have been con on the other, the winged dragon. tracted. The loan of 1859 was for £7,000,000, that of An extensive fire broke out at two o'clock on 1860 for £6,210,000. The loan for 1862 was for Thursday morning in the Cathedral of Frankfort, £15,000,000 ; theloan of 1864 for £6,000,000 ; and that of by which the entire sacristy and some adjacent 1 10an 866 f fo r r x £ 4 6„ . 0 0 0 0 0, 0 0 0 0 0 0 ; in andalltll4o77ol,awnod sViniteeepslkBsßiaillAvaoy. buildings have been burnt to the ground. Three cordinc , to the last reliable statement of the whole Russian ;ves were lost. debt, funded and unfunded, it amounted in 1863 to £242,000,000, or more than 1,500,000,000 silver roubles, and since that time it has, as we have seen, increased. In 1864 (the latest year for which revenue accounts appear to be - published) the revenue was £57,000,000, and the ex penditure £70,000,000. The new railway loan at .4 per cent. being issued at £l2 ss. in the £2O, or at £6l in the £lOO, is offered at a price which would be equivalent to about 761 at 5 per cent., or about 10 per cent. lower than the loan of 1866, which, bearing 5 per cent. interest, stands at 86. How any Government that has any respect for its credit can accept such terms is surprising; and it is to be hoped that the non-success of this Russian obligation loan will prevent other loans being brought out on similar terms. No doubt the resources of Russia are great, but no country can trifle with impunity with its credit. The proposed railway dividends to the 30th of June show a decrease when compared with those paid for the first half of last year. The London and South-Wester n pay 34 per cent., the Great Northern 41, the London and North-Western 51 ; but the traffic receipts show an in crease upon those of last year, since the Ist of July, which, if supported during the autumn, may enable those com panies which are well managed to pay about the satue amount of dividend as last year. Railway shares are firmer in price, and, as confidence returns, they will, ne doubt, be able to renew their debentures at reduced rates, and more in harmony with the low rates of moneY' and with increased traffic better returns may be expected The Pernambuco Railway Company have announced that their debentures, which fell due on the 31st of July, have all been renewed or provided for. The last returns of the Bank of France show that the metallic reserve has again increased, the augmentation being 17-1 millions of francs. The total amount of th e metallic reserve at present is 903,000,000, or £36,120,000 to 1,149 millions of francs of notes in circulation. The fine harvest weather at the beginning of the wee k caused an advance in the English funds. Foreign stoeltB were a little less weak, the few change s that occurred being upwards. In the share market railway stocks werde more active ; the best managed lines are looking up, all s there is more inquiry in miscellane ous description generally.—Westminster Gazette. THE TIIEORY OF MINORITIES. The recognition by Parliament of the right o, minorities, though for the present limited in extent, involves a principle deeply affecting the whole organism of Government. Its universal adoption— for it is not in the nature of such a principle to remain only partial in its application—will shift the basis on which public society rests, and will, in reality, do more towards weakening obedience and upsetting authority than the most democratic lowering of the franchise ever yet seriously pro posed. For, to admit the right of minorities is to break up the unity of corporate bodies, of the com munity; it is to transfer authority from the com munity to the individual, to make the house of Commons represent not communities, not the na tion, but persons and numbers. But what authority is there in mere numbers ? There is an authority intelligible and definite in the community, in the corporate body, in the nation. Its will, as expressed by the majority, is the will of the community, of the corporate body, or of the nation, loyally accepted and obeyed by all ; the acts which proceed from such an expression of will are the acts of the nation. But once destroy this prin ciple and you disintegrate society, and you will have to fall back, as the only alternative, for the source of authority on the will of the individual. To admit the doctrine of minorities is to inaugurate the reign of individualism, which is the bane of modern society. But what Christians regard as the bane of modern civilization —the erection of the individual reason into the supreme and ultimate judge of all acts, the source of all authority, philo sophers look upon as the triumph and the highest result of modern progress. The supremacy of the individual will is their creed ; all authority outside of the individual is nothing else than a cess ion of his sovereign rights, a delegation, for convenience sake, to the community of a portion of his supremacy. We were not, therefore, surprised to find the philoso phers, the doctrinaires, the advocates of pure "Geist," combining with old-fashioned and obstruc tive Tories to force on practical statesmen what, in men like John Stuart Mill, is no mere crotchet, but a Parliamentary development of their philoso phical theories. To stiff and " wooden " politicians of the Lord Ellenborough stamp—the heavy weights on the Tory course—any extension of the franchise, though conceived in the spirit of the Constitution, is down right treason—the commencement of inevitable democracy—the beginning of the end of the British COUNTRY MARKETS• NORWICH—SATURDAY. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 72s to 74s ; red (lin (weighing 631 b), 66 s to 68 s pe r q r. Flour, 49s Od to 50s 0 per sack. NOT TINGIIAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 70s to 79s ; old red, 66s to 72s ; n° o white, 74s to 78s ; new red, 68s to 73s per 36 stone. C" -t i T fine, 28s to 365; new, 28 s to 36 s p er 21 stone. Beans, oins —s to —s; new, 4 6 s to 50 s per 38 stone. Fine fl o ur, 41 ' to 51s per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. New white wheat, 68s to 75s ; new red, 60s to 69s • °l + ? ' white, —s to —s ; old red, --s to —s per 36 stone. ' 1 3 ',1 .. ; ley, for malting, —s to —s per qr.; grinding, 35s to `0,,4 per 30 stone. Oats, fine, 37s to —s ; now, 23 s to 34s p er stone. Beans, old, —s to —s ; new, 46s to 50s per 38 stony Fine flour, 52s ; seconds, 4 6 s to 18s per 20 stone. Empire. Such men, with political weights and scales in their hands, are for ever weighing and balancing, as grocers do pennyworths of sugar, political privi leges against popular demands ; they see in the growth of the people in intelligence and political activity, nothing but danger to the Constitution. They are wilfully blind to the great merit of our Constitution —its elasticity, its adaptability to the growth of the nation, its power of comprehension. Dull of eye, these obstructive politicians, void of the true Conservative spirit, see not the signs of the times in which they can scarcely be said to live, but they fill the ear with evil forebodings ; prophets of ill, their prophecies have a tendency to bring about their own fulfilment. In voting with the philoso phical Radicals these men, both Tory and Whig, had no idea whatsoever on the theory of minorities. They seized upon it simply in the hope of surrepti tiously cutting down and paring away the largely extended franchise which, in a generous and un grudging spirit, the Government and the House of Commons had conferred upon the people in full confidence that the working classes, admitted to the franchise, would act in obedience to old tradi tions and kindly associations so as to continue in the ways of the Constitution. If the right of mi norities was only made use of by the obstructives as a" dodge" to cripple the Reform Bill, the doc trinaires and philosophers rejoiced in its success as in the triumph of a principle which, though prized by " the ppliticians of the writing table," by the " philosophers," the " enthusiasts," and the " dreamers," they never for an instant fancied would be adopted by practical statesmen, or be driven by " Geist" into the heads of the " Philis tines." Hence their inordinate joy at such an un expected triumph. The Times broke out in a strain of unconcealed self-laudation. It regretted, for the honour of the English press, that it stood alone in its support of the right of minorities which but yesterday scouted by Mr. Bright as the " spawn of feeble brains," rejected by practical politicians like Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone, is to-day, thanks to Mr. Lowe and the doctrinaires of the Times, to John Stuart Mill and the philosophers, to the House of Lords and its fears of the people, erected into a principle of the Constitution. How far in the support and in the development of this novel principle—so deeply affecting the whole organism of Government —Tories of the Lord Ellenborough stamp, and philosophical Radicals will combine, it is difficult to reckon. Between these two small but influential parties there is one point of contact, and that is their common detestation of practical politicians of the great Middle class and of the "Philistines." The Spectator, the most able and consistent exponent of Rationalism in every rela tion of life, looks upon the introduction of the new principle involved in the right of minorities as the dawn of a new era in English politics. This English interpreter and worshipper of c; G e i s t , ' —this high-priest of individualism—announces with an almost ecstatic joy, the dethronement of the great Middle class and of its unintellectual leaders. It sees in the alliance of the " thinkers," and of the Democrats, an inauguration of the reign in England of a philosophic democracy. The working men, inspired and led by the philosophers, the philosophers freed from ancient prejudices and precedents, by which unintellectual statesmen and the great Middle class arc bound, will not shrink from applying to politic s the discoveries of pure reason.. In such a process the Spectator and the class it represents sees not only the means of de livering modern society from the dangers which threaten its stability, but of attaining to a more perfect state than has ever yet been seen. Fas est et ab haste cloceri ; which means that we may wisely learn from the Spectator what we have to avoid, viz., the application to politics by the theory of minorities of the doctrine of individualism, a doctrine equally opposed to the principles of a uthority in polities as ul religion.— Westminster CkPette. HE St N, LON .;ON , MONDAY EVENING, AU GUST 19, 1867: COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. YORK—SATURDAY. White wheat, from 6ls to 72 s ; rod , 60s to 66s .11°r.2,.6_ 4 0 ' Barley, for malting, 39 s to 40s ; grsctiowtre: stone. .„ _ 36s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28s to 30s per 24 b` c io. Beans, new, 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 665 W Flour, 498 to 51s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 1 2 . Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton ug•* l'' ~ . Ditto, via Marseilles SOS Ditto, via Panama ....... .......... ..... ... •• • ~ 3. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video SO' 22 , Ditto, by French packet t• 3 ' Cape Verde, by Brazil paoket - S ee ... . . d 27, Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena... • Ml. , ' 2 i, China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton.. Aug• e, Ditto, via Marseilles. Se t. o• Falkland Islands sot. 3 Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug' 2-1 ' .. ........... 9. India, via Southampton Aug ' " Aug* 2 3 Ditto, via Marseil es Auk Malta, Egypt, . Auk 25* U Ditto, Maratilles Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton. A.ug• / , 1 ; • Ditto, via 31arseiiles sept• . Au g. 21. Newfoundland ....... .... Portugal • SePto 3 ' Ditto, by private ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &a, .by British Aug' ~, • • . - ........ packet Ditto, by United States packet ................ Ditto ditto (New Yorki .................... Ditto ditto (New York) ........... . ........ Ditto ditto (Baltimore) .... ... .......• •• Ditto, by Canadian packet .................... 1"17 West Coast of Africa , Madeira , and T eneriffa.. •.• • SO' West Ladies and Pacific (except Mexico and Balm- ' 0. mas) Cub and Mexico • •.AllgO Bahamas, via New York A.4. Bermuda, via ditto The Arago arrived at Falmouth on Th 11093611 BO having on board the master and crew of W A ,* Czar, of Greenock. That vessel was abandon- id a sinking state last Sunday, when on her I° Y,rtli from Shields for Quebec. The A ra g o fell ill lv t be her in lat. 50 . 2 N., long. 2612 W. Althotiglaitoi weather was singularly fine throughout the t ln ti ois Kingdom it appears to have b een very Oa the Atlantic. Tad rilr • ADTERTISENIENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment ft --„,, ;4 ,A, 54 0 Palpitation, Shortness of Breath, Dropsy.— .l- ,',.0 0° 0 named disease is commonly preceded by irregilt o 3o,,4 of the heart, and dif fi cult respiration, which syD 3 P'' il ev„. always severe, and ever go from bad to -wore , ~ 5 1, -, r Koper means of cure be resorted to. In 11°110,1a se ar rivalled Ointment and Pills, the dropsical patient 11 t oe 4 find succour. The present relief derived frail tll t' these remedies is marvellously quick, and perseT e W 6 7o the steady application of this noble Ointment i b e i'',6l r esults in the lasting and satisfactory cure. "'„• 0 0 tie medicines act with such ene r gy on the circul tw oa.` e, a b so rbent system that the dropsical fl uid vanishelS 00' sufferer finds all the oppressive symptoms (WV till natural health returns. ---------- Births. „ Q v CO °lll C R OFTON-0n the 14th inst., at Ro seana, counti ni, the Hon. Mrs. Charles Crofton , o f a daughter . i gill , fr RADOM— On the 17th inst., at Bitted,' House, titer' ti . 0 the wife of James A. Hadden, Esq., of a &ug b t Il ' - MASEON —On the 15th inst., at Lower Sydenba°, - of William N. Masson, of a daughter. Marriages. f ta l° l4 4 LITTLETON— ROWLEY —On the 16th inst., 0 - ,V o a. - - . ;i5.1, Nayland Parish Church, Suffolk, Capt. tb 3 .- I , °' ill P. Littleton, Grenadier Guards, to Charlotte. %IP daughter of Sir Charles Rowley, Bart., of Ten arll3 A Sl' Stoke-by-Nayland. .. A ii 1 50 44 NICOLSON—CROSSE -On the 16th inst., at -`,, Lawrence, Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick NicolerVA, C. 8., to Annie, only child of the late R. CrooSel ' p ly Deaths. of , BURNLEY—On the 15th inst., James 13urnlon -`-' , '''' '' Is'or House, Gomersal, aged 36. So uth COoPE —On the 15th inst., at Ellen's villas, Po' wood, A. F. Coope, Esq., M.D , aged 55. PORTWAY—On the 15th nst , at . Great Staraf°ra, n.,, e d 80. .4 John Portway, Esq, of Stainford-hill, 5 1 031" SCOTT—On the 16th inst., at Mertoun Houee, H. Scott, fifth Baron Polwarth. Jobe ste° STARK—On the 11. th inst., at Margate, Sea, _. Esq., late of Ca'cutta , , ad Soho-squar, Loudom,tidet THomsox —On the 15th inst., at Thorney Close, P land, H9phurn Thomson, Esq., aged 78. London : Printed and Published by WILLIA— ,,,, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Sol 0 111 ' - 'ooiirt t i Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, ill 1 " Middlo3l37L--51O12day, AuSti§t 19, 1867. 4 `"i