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THEA'T'RE ROYAL, COVENT-GA RDEN. ' COVENT-GARDEN CONCERTS. EVERY EVENING at 8. Under the sole Direction of Mr. JOHN RUSSELL. Conductor for the Classical Music, Signor Bottesini. Conductor for the Dance Mu ic, Herr Johann Strauss. The programme for this evening will include overtures " Sentiramide" and " Fn► Diavolo ;" grand orchestral selec tion from " L'Africaine ;" songs by Madlle. Sarolta and Madlle. Eraclio; solos by U. Wieuiawski, Signor Pot tesini, Master Bonnay, J. M. \Willi, Mr. Reynolds, &c.; polkas and waltzes by Johann Strauss, &c. To-Morrow (Thursday) a BEETHOVEN NIGHT when will he performed overture, "Leonora ;" concerto (violin), M. Wieniawski; the pastoral symphony, &c. Promenade, amphitheatre stalls, and amphitheatre, Is. Doors open at half-past Seven. NEW ROYAL ADELPIII THEATRE. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.— Mr. J. W. ANSON (Treasurer) has the honour to an nounce, through the kindness of B. 'Webster, Esq., an Extra Night for his Annual B-nefit, which will take place THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, Sept, 4, when will be presented Shakspere's comedy, AS YOU LIKE IT. The following popular and talented artists will appear : Jacques. Mr. A. Stirling; Orlando, Mr. Hermann Vezin ; Adam, Mr. G. P. Addison ; Touchstone, Mr. H. Widdi cotnbe ; Amiens, Mr. Win. Harrison, with the incidental songs, "Blow, blow, thou Winter Winds," and "Under the Greenwood Tree," Rosalind, Mrs. Hermann Vezin; Audry, Miss Nellie Farren. Song, Miss Rose Hersee, "Sing, Birdie, Sing." Mr. J. L. Toole, who has just returnod from Paris, will on this occasion make his only appear ance in London previous to his provincial tour, in ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Boxes and Tickets can be obtained of Mr. J. W. Anson, 20, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, or at the Box-office, from 10 to 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING. AS YOU LIKE IT. Messrs. Howe, Chippendale, Compton, Kendal, C'ark, Weathersby, Braid, Rogers, Coe. Vincent. Arc. ; Me*dames Sco.t Stddons, Burke, Dalton, W right, fitzwilliam, &c Alter which, TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE FOUNDS Mr. Buckstone. To conclude with PE nc.t SMINK. Mr. Ccmpion. Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Leamee and Manager, Mr. Vlnlnr, OPEN for the WINTER SEASON. THIS the performances will corn , nence with the popular Farce, by J. M. Morton, Esq., entitli d )'OUR PI L L ICOD DY. Characters by Messrs. Dominick Murray and !lies Pelly Marshal!. At a quarter-past 8, TILE STREETS or LONDON, by Pion Bo tic , cau t, Esq. Badger, Mr. Vining. Messrs. M 'Lean Dominkk Mirs ray, IL Forrester, C. I'►ice, R. Cathcart, W R Robins, Newbound, Chapman, Tapping; Miss Edith Stuart, Miss Emma Barnet', and Mrs. 11. Marston. . . N.B —Mr. and Mrs. DION BOUCICAULT will shortly make their re-appearance at this Theatre in FOG 17E. R OYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HIGH HOLBORN. BRILLIANT AND UNABATED SUCCESS.-GREAT HIT OF THE NEW PANTOMIME MIMIQUE. THIS EVENING. the new Pantomime Mim'que ARLF.- QUIN SINGE, by Mona Montero and Company. Mars of lau.:hter night y greet the Xonentric Abbott's " Vanishing Act." The Brothers Daniels in their inimitable 'Violin I'Lr formances repeatedly encored. A rec's thrilling ..Erial Act. SCE.N ES IN TIIE ARENA by the matchless 'I roupc of Equestrians. Gerard's Great Tunnel Leap. 3ldlle. Earn § e c's Wonders of the Haute Ecole. The Poulle Madame Gerard in her daring' Balloon F light. The rear velloul Kings of the Carpet. Fills's Fire Horse. &c. OPEN EVERY EVENING. COMMENCE AT EIGHT. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE at the ItuYAL AMPHITHEATRE and CIRCUS, High Holborn, every SATURDAY at 2.30. Carriages may be ordered for a Quarter to Five. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. trliE "SUN" NEWSPAPER.- G. It. 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The Reform Fête and Banquet Committee are determined not to spare any efforts to render their undertaking as successful as possible. They have solicited the aid of Earl RUSSELL and Mr. GLAD STONE, and these distinguished statesmen have taken advantage of the opportunity thus afforded to them in their replies to give vent to some of their feelings of disappointment at the chrracter of the Reform Bill. Earl RUSSELL will be in Ireland , at the time •fixed for the entertainment to take place, and has, therefore, sufficient reason for re fusing the invitation held out to him. The noble lord goes on to say that be must be candid, and his feelings are not those of rejoicing. " I must add, therefore, that I am too uncertain what effect Lori DERBT'S leap in the dark may produce to be a fit and enthusiastic companion for those who wish to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill of 1867." This is decisive at any rate, and very likely is more to the point than many of the speeches that will be delivered on the occasion referred to. We never expected that Earl RUSSELL would be pleased if any Reform Bill were passed, but we hardly thought he would be so extreme as this. The noble lord is no flatterer, far from it ; he speaks his mind in a downright, simple, straightforward fashion, and he is certainly by no means sanguine respecting the present Administration. On the contrary, he men tioos many npJasuros which he deems to be wces3ary for the welfare of the country, and then adds, " Upon all these mea sures the present Government will, I conceive, use the influence which they have acquired to resist and suppress those remedial schemes, which, in my ju lginent, are absolutely essential for the future welfare and honour of the United Kingdom." It would be easy to say that these are not generous terms in which to speak of political opponents when there is no particular question uppermost to engage attention or to excite controversy ; but we can go further, and say that the language here used is not just. This time last year, had he been called upon to speak prophetically, would the noble lord have imagined that the Conservative Government would bring in and pass a Reform Bill such as that which has lately become the law of the land? Why then does he now set out to predict what is to be done by those whose course he cannot under stand, and should therefore not presume to follow in a speculative manner. We would add that there is reason to ask why none of these " remedial mea sures" were effected during the blessed time when the Liberals had a monopoly of office. These they kept back as a piece de resistance for emergen cies, or which they put off sine die, in order that no one should dream of ousting them from place and power ? Perhaps these are queries that it is more easy to ask than to answer, but at any rate we re gret that Earl RUSSELL should betray so manifest a spirit of intolerance and bitterness, and display such uncalled-for petulance_ The noble lord's letters are generally unfortunate, and this last does not appear likely to redound to his reputation for forbearance, or to exhibit him in a more favourable light to the public. Mr. GLADSTONE'S reply is much more concise, and, as usual with the right hon. gentleman, very mysterious. It is difficult to decide whether he feels satisfied, and whether those about to celebrate the event of the passing of the Reform Bill ought to be satisfied either. First of all, he says that it appears to him to be justifiable for them to rejoice at the extension of the franchise, and then immediately goes en to declare that the satisfaction would have been much more complete if some other parts of the subject had been treated better, and had " tbe enfranchisement in boroughs not been connected with provisions so inconvenient and irrational with respect to the payment of rates through the owner." Here Mr. GLADSTONE inge niously puts in his pet grievance, concerning which he contrived to " bore" the House of Commons pretty completely during the early part of the session. We may notice particularly in this correspondence that want of unity which is so fatally apparent among the Whigs and Radi cals in all they attempt to do, which makes their best-laid plans fall short, and their best endeavours unfinished and incoherent. Thus we have Earl RUSSELL declaring that he does not sympathise with the proposed rejoicing in celebration of the passing of a Reform Bill. And then we have Mr. GLAD STONE'S emphatic assurance that it appears to him the said celebration is " amply justifiable." Let us fancy these men engaged in solemn conclave in order to decide upon the construction of a measure for amending the representation of the people. How could they possibly arrive at a satisfactory conclu sion when they start from totally different premises? It is true that Lord RUSSELL is decided in his cen sure, while Mr. GLADSTONE halts between two opinions; but the right hon. gentleman has the best of it in the long run, for he throws cold water upon the Government scheme, but does not wholly con demn it. Mr. DILLVITN, in his explanation to his consti tuents the other day, made special reference to the want of unanimity that exists among his party. He said that even if the Liberals were " united toa man" they could not have passed such a Reform Bill as that just effected by the Tories, and nothing could have been more opportune than the appearance of these letters of the two leaders of the party to verify this assertion and bear out this statement. If anything were wanting to vindicate the scene that took place in the tea-room, surely this correspondence does so fully, fairly, and most completely. It is evident that the very part which Mr. GLADSTONE refers to as satisfactory is that to which Earl RUSSELL points ominously, and stigmatises as" Lord DERBY'S leap in the dark." All of these incongruous ele ments have shown they never have shaped a de finite measure, and we can assure any one who still thinks that Reform was not left in the hands of itslegitimate directors that to have done so would merely have been to have insured its failure total and complete. If Mr. GLADSTONE hasdissembled his love in speaking of the measure, Earl RUSSELL has certainly gone the length of kicking it down stairs as unworthy of his regard and re spect. We fancy, however, that the present Admi nistration can afford to be indifferent to their praise or their censure, for they can look beyond them, to the approval of the people, for whose benefit the measure was framed, and whom it chiefly concerns. The Non-Unionists of Staveley have been hold ing festival, and a very large and influential meet ing was held yesterday at Barrow-hill. The occa sion was the presentation of a testimonial to Mr. Manimam, the managing director of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, as a recognition of his labours in the popular cause. Both employers and men have had a good deal to contend against in the fulfilment of their determination to preserve their independence, and having so far achieved a decided victory they have good right to meet and rejoice together over their successful cham pionship of the rights of British industry. It was not to be supposed that so important a move ment would be left unmolested by the Trades' Unionists, who desire to see every man brought into subjection to an intangible despotism. Accordingly last year a great demonstration was made at Chester field with the avowed object of forming a Miners' Union in that part of the country. Great agitation prevailed at Staveley, and many men left the works. However, the non-unionists held a meeting and en rolled themselves in vindication of what they very justly called "the freedom of I.tbour." They were warmly supported by the directors of the company, who established an accident fund of their own in dependent of the men, and promised liberal contri butions to the funds of the association. The men are much gratified with their triumph over the attempt to dictate to them, and yesterday they pre sented a token of their satisfaction to Mr. MA.RICHAM, who has assisted them zealously throughout, while at the same time they in augurated the establishment of a mechanics' insti tution. The meeting was a very large one, and in addition to the actual employers of labour who were present, many of the principal inhabitants of the neighbourhood were attracted by the pro ceedings. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, who was among them, made a sensible and appropriate speech, which, like the other addresses delivered both by workmen and masters, was listened to with great attention. The plain, common sense of the Staveley speakers ought to have weight with their f e ll ows i n other parts of the country. One of them named TnomAs IlessllllV shrewdly said that the agitators of the unions were not seeking the interests of either side, but of themselves, and that, while the men had often gone supperless to bed and found no breakfast when they got up, the chief delegate was getting his £3 per week. They had resolved to break off this tyranny, and, at their own expense, commenced an agitation for its overthrow. Finding the hours of labour too long for the lads, they had gone to the masters and asked for a reduction, which was granted them. Masters and men thus meet half way, and the result is equally creditable and profitable to both. Mr. JACKSON, M.P., had a word of warning well worth listeuing to. He had THE SUN, LONDOI9. WEDNESOAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1'367. been, he said, 50 gears in business, and when in the earlier part of his career he had seen great combinations cif masters against the men, great reluctance to instruct them, and a disposition to keep► them ir e a state of terrorism, he told them they we all one day reap the fruits of such proceedings. His voids have been amply verified in the a.icenr [alley now obtained by the Trades' Unions. Mr. JACKSON spoke heartily in favour of in divi•ival independence, and said that had he him self belonged to a Trades' Union he shotnld never have been member for North Derby shire. The whole affair passed off brillipntly, and we hope that one of its results will be that masters and men in other parts of the country will follow the example so well set them at Staveley. The arrival of the City of Paris, with news from New York to the 24th ult., informs us that several clubs are organising at Washington, Cincinnati, and elsewhere in favour of Mr. JoHNsores re-election as President, when his term of office has expired. It would be a singular conclusion to all the specula tions and plots of Radicals and Republicans if this effort should succeed. However, it is scarcely likely that it should do so unless public opinion in the States is considerably modified. The Radical influence is in many quarters strong, and they do not scruple to use it unsparingly. It is true that their lavish ex penditure has disgusted some, and their waste of the national resources in keeping up the desolation of the Southern States has alienated others. We may judge from the New York Herald, which generally espouses the popular side of a question, that the STEVENS and ARKLET influence is on the wane. That journal urges the President to proclaim a general amnesty throughout the South, and to form a new Cabinet. General GRANT, the new Minister, is already showing his activity by discharging numerous superfluous employes from the War De partment. General THOMAS is still suffering from ill health, which, it is expected, will interfere with the President's arrangements. From Mexico we hear nothing ; but from Hayti we learn that several conspiracies against SALNAVE have been discovered, and numerous arrests made. Admiral TEGETHOFF had left New Orleans for Vera Cruz on board the Austrian frigate, but for what purpose is not stated. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. There have been several receptions by the Em peror at the Tuileries. His Excellency Djemil Pacha, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipo tentiary from Turkey, presented an autograph let ter to his Majesty from the Sultan thanking the Emperor for his hospitality to him during his stay in Paris. After the audience the Ambassador pre sented to the Emperor the splendid horses of which I have spoken. The Emperor has also received General Salomon, Resident Minister of the Republic of Hayti, to remit to him a letter of congratulation from the President of that Republic on his escape from assassination on the 6th of June in the Bois de Boulogne. his Majesty has also received the Queen of Wur temburg, sister of the Emperor of Russia, who has been in Paris for several days in private. The Etn- peror went to the Hotel de Bristol to conduct the Queen to the Tuileries, where her Majesty was re ceived by the Empress. Baron de Waechta, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Wurtemburg, was present at the audience. The Emperor and Empress have also received Prince Otho of Bavaria, brother of the King. His royal highness travels incognito under the title of Count de Wittalsbach. The Emperor has received, at a private audience, Monseigneur the Greek Patriarch Melchite of Antiocha, Jerusalem, and all the East. he See of Seus, seiOgnneuSrußndearyna, d in ou t , h p e r c e h se a u p t e e l d of t t o he t Tuileries, Mon at onodk N t l h o e n s u e s ize o u a C h s r t a 1 t l o o t , t h appointed o ß r s h o i p ,h o e f y O w r a e n r e , presented to his Majesty by the Grand Almoner, in the presence of M. Baroche, Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice and Public Worship. The best informed journals continue to assert the existence of a diplomatic Note drawn up by the French Government with a view to prove that the result of the Salzburg meeting of the two Emperors is eminently calculated to maintain peace. The cor respondence of the Journal des Debats from Vienna, however, says that the interview embraced discus sions upon all the points which are the order of the day, and the two Emperors agreed that France and Austria would support an identical policy. There was a formidable storm of thunder and lightning throughout the whole of the south-east of France a few days ago. It was so dark at eight o'clock in the morning at Montauban, that it was necessary to light the gas. There was just such a peculiar hazy atmosphere yesterday in Paris, but it was not sufficiently dark to render that precaution to be taken. The lightning did much damage in several places. At Ville de Bourbon it s't fire to three houses which are entirely consumed. The rain fell in such torrents atMontauban that the quantity was equal to 1-15th part of the usual average of a whole summer. The rain was equally abundant in upper and lower Verdun. In the town of Verdun the damage done to houses, corn, and cattle was enormous. Many animals were drowned, and some of the inhabitants only escaped drowning by great exertions. The railways suffered considerably. Near Bouloc, a man named Roux Pons and three servants were conducting a cart laden with forage belonging to the Marchioness of Puylavoque, when the field became illuminated to a distance of more than fifty yards and a large ball of fire fell at ten paces from them. M. Roux was prccipated to the ground, and the shock was so violent that the three other persons were insensible for some seconds. M. Roux was killed instanta neously, but the other persons did not receive any material injury. The thunder left no other mark on the body than a slight wound on the temple. his hair, however, was burnt. The occurrence took place in the open field, at a distance from any tree. In pursuance of the money convention between France and Austria gold pieces of 25 francs are about to be coined at the Paris Mint. They will epis coin h a o s ld te s p ou il t l a r s r o e r s t e represent ten invitation itus t Austrian a n to fl E o r n ins. ga d T t h o 25 francs will m be o o n f e ttahrey valueun i uniformity, r of m pound children, of from three to a place at Toulon. Three t y' as t h s n t e P r l i i e n c g e . ° f An extraordinary case of poisoning has taken five years of age, ate some kernels of almonds and seized peaches when they were with violent convul sions. One died in less than an hour , The two others, the elder and more robust, were saved with great difficulty. A great many ferocious wolves have lately been seen in the department of Morbihan, a circumstance which is considered by the weather wise of that locality as a presage that there will be a very severe winter. The wolves had destroyed a large number of dogs. Three Americans the day before yesterday hit upon a clever plan to evade the recent regulation about chairs, which prohibits restaurateurs from placing seats before their establishments. They were panting with heat and fatigue, and could not endure the atmosphere inside. The waiter was ordered to spread the table outside. Persons who wish to be drawn about the Exhibition may hire a small chaise for 2fr. an hour. The three gentlemen each got into one of these chaises, and, being drawn to the table where the dinner was all ready, they kept their seats, and enjoyed the dinner to the great astonishment of the waiters and delight of the visitors, who were much pleased with the ingenious device. French cooks must look to their laurels. A Norwegian cook has invented an apparatus which, by a peculiar process, so economises the heat that a chicken may be cooked in five . minutes. The ex periment has actually been carried into effect at the Norwegian cottage in the Park. A gentleman who partook of it describes the process. The chicken was perfectly done. Other things may of course be worked in the same way. The curiosity respecting the Zouave doctor con tinues, or rather it increases. The following account of an interview which a writer in a popular journal obtained is no doubt authentic. " When I entered the room I was struck with the countenance of the Zouave. Jacob said, am neither doctor nor quack. Chance has discovered that from the one fact of my desire to be useful I can relieve the sick. Persons have attributed special faculties to me. I neither affirm nor discuss these. I make no specu lation of them, and I ask for neither remuneration nor gratitude. I ant enchanted with the letter pub lished by the aide-dc-camp of Marshal Forey, who affirms that I have not effected any cures. At least I shall be left tranquil. Remark that I have never, even to give gratuitous assistance, made any appeal to publicity. What Idoit is not for me to define— that is the business of the savants and of all those who are occupied in considering the influence which one man, desirous of giving relief to another man, may have upon his fellow.' This was all that the Zouave would say, but he opened a drawer full of letters, the greater part of which had not been unsealed, and observed that he received many letters, but he wrote very little. A person who went to see the doctor on the 24th of August says that he mounted the staircase with much difficulty with the assistance of a friend. Half an hour afterwards he descended the staircase alone, only leaning upon the balustrade occasionally. He was not cured, but he could support himself much more firmly upon his legs, and since then, leaning upon the arm of his wife, he could take a daily walk for an hour. Jacob has asserted that he possesses a fluid dispersed over all parts of his body, which he admits, however, may only act upon the imagination. Be this as it may, the most eminent scientific men of Paris who discuss the subject assert that all men possess this fluid, which some call animal magnetism, but that it exists to a much greater extent with some men than in others. Jacob, it is asserted by some, has this fluid in greater abundance than hitherto known, and its power is of unparalleled influence over all who are subjected to it." The Emperor and Empress will leave Paris for Biarritz in the course of this week. The Emperor will return to the capital at the beginning of Octo ber, when, I believe, it is certain that the Emperor of Austria will come to repay the visit of the Em peror Napoleon to Salzbourg. La Liberte, which appears to have a well-informed correspondent in Spain, contains a letter from Madrid, which states that, in spite of the alleged dispersion of some of the insurgent bands, insur rectionists have appeared upon various other points. In the province of Valencia there is great excite ment, and in the town of Valencia such is the fear exhibited by the authorities that several persons have been shot, merely on suspicion, and without having been guilty of any overt act. La Liberte appears to anticipate, from the tenour of its gene ral information from Spain, that ere long some startling movement will burst forth at Madrid. The weather continues extremely hot and oppres sive. The Exhibition is, perhaps, the only cool locality in Paris. The visitors to-day were even more numerous than yesterday. The Queen of Wurtemburg was there, and has been there every day since her arrival in Paris. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) LIBERATION OF THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 3 Telegraphic intelligence has been received by the British Embassy in this capital announcing the liberation of the Abyssinian captives by the Emperor Theodore at the intercession of the Armenian Bishop Isaac. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 4. The Cunard extra steamship Tarifa arrived here at 5.30 a.m. to-day with 97 passengers. She landed 9 passengers and despatches, and proceed:d for Liverpool immediately. All well. TURKEY. Active negotiations are being carried on between the Porte and the foreign ministers here relative to the tranquillisation of Crete. The Rus3ian Ambassador General Ignatieff is ex pected to return here this week from the Crimea. Admiral Vezzin Pacha has arrived here from Crete. The shattered hull of the Arkadi will, it is believed, be recovered, and will be brought here. THE AUSTRIAN FINANCES. VIENNA, Sept. 4. It is asserted that Herr von Lonyay, the Hun garian Finance Minister, supports the proposal to appoint a commission to examine the financial position of the Empire. Deak is said to favour the proposition. Baron Beeke intends to cover the deficiency in the revenue by an increase of the income-tax, a further issue of State notes, and a loan not exceed ing 20,010,000 florins. Baron lVcrther has left for Paris. FRANCE. BOMISE, Sept. 3, Two o'clock.—The monthly settlement on railways, foreign, and miscellaneous I l securities is proceeding favourably. The market is generally very quiet. Threes are quoted at 69f. 65c., or the same as yesterday, taking into account the deport. Italian Fives are at 48f. 95c., a rise of sc. ; Credit Foncier at 1,373 f. 75c., an advance of 3f. 75c.; Creditlllobilier without change, at 277 f. 50c.; and Comptoir d'Escompte at 712 f. 50c., a decline of 2f. 50c. A fall of 15f. has taken place on Southern railway shares ; they are quoted at 537 f. 50c. The tours de compensation have been fixed as follows :—Bank shares, 3,335 f. ; Italian Fives, 48f, 95c.; Credit Mobilier, 280 f. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, 710 f, ; and Credit Foncier, 1,375 f. 41 per Cents lOO 25 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 75 Do. end month 69 671 Credit Mobilier 275 Do. end Month 277 50 Credit Fonder 1370 DJ. end month — Bank Shares — - Italian Loan — - Do. end month — - Mexican Loan ll - Do. Bonds — - Spanish Threee - Homo Debt — - Deferred - RAILWAYS. For Account. 867 50 Orleans - - Northern 1165 Lyons and Mediterranean 896 25 Southern ___ __ Western 571 25 Eastern — Sardinian l5 Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragona Roman 383 75 72 - 83 - 57 - THE CAUSE OF EDUCA7ION. A public meeting was held at Penzance on Friday last, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of a large building to be appropriated to day and Sunday schools in connection with the Wesleyan Methodists. RICHARD LEWIS, Esq., the barrister and secre . _ . tary of the National Lifeboat Institution, made vu 411 t, VVI U7IVII Lt fully tv lug al) Opt LILL: u marks on the subject of education. He said he had long been a promoter of the cause of education, but he dreaded equally both bigotry and sectarian ism. John Wesley preached free trade in religion, and a life according to the teachings of the Bible. This meant religion for the learned and the un learned, for the educated, for the imperfectly edu cated, and for those who were utterly destitute of knowledge. He believed that great misapprehension existed on the subject of popular education. The power of reading and writing did not alone consti tute education, but the mental power that was set to work by the training received. He wished some distinguished man in Parliament would bring in a Reform Bill on education which should please both Whigs and Tories, which should be charac terised by no party views, but by patriotic and com prehensive ideas. He fully agreed with the remarks of Earl Russell,',that whatever course was taken in popular education, the Bible should never be absent from school-rooms ; they should be places where free religion, but no sectarianism, should be taught. , He had just come from the assizes at B r i s t o l, w h ere I out of 18 prisoners only five could read or write in any degree. Drunkenness and ignorance were the most prolific causes of crime in the land ; edu cation was the great remedy in his view against criminality. He felt certain that the result of the building they were about to erect would be most gratifying to them all, not only by the successful teaching of reading and writing, but by instruction in morality and religious duty, the impression of which received in youth could never be effaced. But they must bear in mind that nothing would succeed without great industry and undaunted per severance. He instanced gentlemen at the bar, w ho, by their severe mental discipline and great labour, had raised themselves to high posi tions in their country's service. He occasionally mixed with the highest and the lowest classes in the land, and he found amongst many of both classes that the greatest difficulty was to get them even to think consecutively, and the cultivation of the think ing power must be the grand point at which they must aim in educating youth. An interesting ex ample of the power of education was lately afforded at the Paris Exhibition in the trial of two safes, where the American succeeded by scientific prin ciples, while the Englishman hoped to succeed by the mere application of muscular strength. In a town like Penzance they need not be dependent on any thing that Government might do. If they accepted Government grants they must accept Government conditions ; but if these conditions involved prin ciples which they could not surrender, they were perfectly able to support their own schools. Let them go forward in their great undertaking of sub duing the pernicious influence of ignorance and vice, and success would certainly follow. WILLIAM APARTitun, Esq., sheriff-elect of Lon don and Middlesex, and other gentlemen, also ad dressed the meeting. Votes of thanks were given to Mr. Lewis and Mr. M'Arthur and to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated.— Western Morning News. THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION.--The Boundary Commissioners will commence their inquiry in Essex next week. Among the matters which aro mentioned as likely to be brought before the commissioners at Colchester is a proposal for extending the limits of the borough so as to include the parishes of \Vivenhoo and East Donyland. A proposal will also be submitted to make Colchester the place of nomination for the proposed division of North east Essex. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.—Certain disqualifica tions of Justices of the Peace are now retnev,d by the Act (30th and 31st of Victoria, cap. 115) in the execution of certain acts in Sessions as to Municipal Corporations, Local Boards of Health, or Improvement Commissioners, by reason of being ratepayers, or liable, in common with others, to contribute, or to be benefited by, any penalty payable, &c. TILE IRON TRADE OF WITTON PARK.—During the past few weeks trade has considerably improved at the works of Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co. (Limited), at Witten Park, several largo orders having been obtained. The various departments are now fully employed, with the ex ception of the Neato-mill, and that, we understand, will commence work next week. Tho tradespeople in Bishop Auckland aro already beginning to feel the good effect of the improvement in trade at Wittou Park.—Newcapae WONr/la4 THE REFORiTI FETE AND BANQUET. A general meeting of the London Working Men's Association was held last evening at the Association Rooms, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, in reference to the forthcoming fete and banquet at the Crystal Palace on the 30th inst., in celebration of the passing of the Reform Bill—Mr. G. Potter in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the first business of the meet- ing was to confirm the action taken by certain members of the association in conjunction with the delegates from the trades and other societies in pro. moting the proposed Reform fete and banquet. Mr. STAjI" then moved—" That this association nrtanrso thA action 1,7 rni , rnllnre of ihn association, in conjunction with the delegates from the societies of working men who took part in the Reform Demonstration of December, 1866, in pro moting the Reform fete and banquet at the Crystal Palace on the 30th inst., and empower the committee to announce the fete as under the auspices of the Working Men's Association." Mr. WICKS seconded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. The SECIIETAItT then stated that as secretary of the Reform Fete Committee he bad received the following letters from Earl Russell and Mr. Glad stone, M.P. : " Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Aug. 31. beg you will thank the committee, in my name, for doing me the honour of inviting me to the Reform fete and banquet on 30th September. As, however, I expect to bc in Ireland at that time, it will be out of my power to accept the invitation. It would not be candid of me to stop here. I must add, therefore, that I am too uncertain what effects Lord Derby's leap in the dark' may produce to be a fit and enthusiastic companion for those who wish to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill of 1867. " Other measures, unconnected with the reform of Parliament, appear to me to be necessary to assure the future of this country. Among these measures are to be mentioned, in my opinion, a general, sound, unsectaria❑ education of the people ; the abolition of church rates, and a redress of grievances, both in regard to the relations of landlord and tenant, and of the maintenance of the Church of the minority, of which the Irish, as a nation, justly complain. NN,Uponil linfluence they have acquired present Government acollnctehievsee, use measures teiD fl t to resist and suppress those remedial measures which in my judgment, are absolutely essential for the fu ture welfare and honour of the United Kingdom. " I beg you will submit this letter to the com mittee, and remain, your obliged and faithful ser vant, " RUSSELL." The letter from . fr. Gladstone was dated from " llawarden, Chester, Aug. 27," and after refer ring to his attendance at the proposed banquet, about which negotiations arc still pending, goes on o say : " It appears to me that such a celebration as your committee. propose is amply justified by the great extension of the franchise which has been given by the act, and that it will tend to create an enhanced sense of the duty which it imposes, as well as the powers and privileges it confers. Of course, your satisfaction would have been more complete had some other parts of the subject, and especially the redistri bution of seats, been treated in the same comprehen sive manner as the borough suffrage, and had the enfranchisement in boroughs not been connected with provisions so inconvenient and irrational with respect to the payment of rates through the owner. —I have the honour to be, sir, yours faithfully, it W. E. GLADSTONE." The Secretary said he would take this opportuui' y of stating, in reference to a paragraph appearing in an obscur3 weekly paper of last Sunday, and copied into some of the daily papers, that the name of no member of Parliament had been used in connection with the proposed banqaet but on the authority of his own handwriting. The resolution adopted by the association that evening, approving the proceed ings of the committee, was a refutation of the other portion of the paragraph in question. Mr. PACKER then moved, and Mr. Thomas seconded, the following resolution, which was car ried :—" That this association recommend the lestab lishment of a Fund, t c b e d evo t e d to paying the legitimate expenses a n d promo ti n g the return of working men to the reformed Parliament as the re iresentative of labour, and that the committee be instructed to prepare a plan for working out such p:oposition, and submit the same to a general meeting of members foi approval." On the motion of Mr. Pardoe, seconded by Mr. Adams, the sub-commitee on labour were requested to consider the propriety of at once convening a delegate meeting of the London trades' societies, to take into consideration t ie p os ition of those societies consequent on the stale of the law respecting picketing, as laid down by Baron Bramwell at the late trial of the tailors atthe Central Criminal Court. The meeting then closed with a vote of thanks to the ellairpp And the IWQrmi Fete Cowwiam NON- UNIONIST DEMONSTRATION :AT STAVELEY. • The workmen in the employ of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company, who formed themselves into a non-union association, on Monday presented to Mr. Markham, the managing director, and who has been mainly instrumental in adjusting matters be tween masters and men, a testimonial consisting of a beautifully -designed claret jug and waiter, toge ther with a chastely -designed inkstand and an illu miaated address. On the claret jug was engraved the following inscription :—" Presented to Charles Markham, Esq., Iby 2,566 of the workmen of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company (Limited), in grateful acknowledgment of the zeal and ability displayed by him in vindicating the right of the British workman to freedom of labour and of action against the operation of trades' unions, and also in appreciation of his uniform kindness to his workpeople.--August, 1867." The cost of the tes timonial was £53, which amount was raised by a subscription amongst the workmen themselves, none being allowed to give more than 61 The proceed ings excited almost an unparalleled amount of in terest in the district, and the day was observed as a general holiday, the whole place being en fete. Special trains conveyed workmen and their families from the Speedwell and Seymour Collieries, and at four o'clock a very numerous company sat down to tea in a large marquee, erected close by the rail way station. The proceeds were to be devoted to the funds of the newly-established Mechanics' In stitution, the inauguration of which was thus auspiciously celebrated, the Duke of Devonshire, and other distinguished visitors, being present during tea. A luncheon was also provided in the Workmen's Dining Hall. At five o'clock a meeting was held in the Staveley Works School, Barrow hill, which was crowded to excess, a considerable number of ladies being among the assemblage. Mr. B. WHITWORTH, M.P. for Drogheda, pre sided, and in the course of his remarks, greatly eulogised Mr. Markham, with whom he said the working man could not find a truer friend. As one of the directors, he could assure them that Mr. Markham had studied the interests of the working men as well as those of the masters, and he felt sure that Mr. Markham would never do anything that was not strictly right, that was not truly honourable, or that he would be ashamed of. The presentation was then made by Mr. Thomas Henshaw, on behalf of himself and fellow workmen. Mr. MARKHAM, who was received with hearty cheers, said—l accept with gratitude this address and testimonial, which is gratifying to my feelings after the events that have recently taken place at these works. I can assure you I should not have been found advocating the cause of the freedom and liberty of labour if I had not been deeply impressed with the conviction that their principles were founded upon truth, justice, and equity, and that it was for the advantage of society at large that the most per fect freedom of labour should prevail amongst all classes, and that no man was worthy of the name of an Englishman who placed his liberties at the mercy of any others, and ceased to think and act for him self. (Hear, hear.) I am a member of the Civil and Amalgamated Engineers, but if that society attempted by rules to regulate my freedom and liberty of thought and action, I should never have joined them, as I would not delegate to any council or living being my personal freedom which I inherit by right as an Englishman. The pioneers of the non-union movement are men who have been en gaged in numerous strikes from their early life, and after great experience these men are now convinced that they have frequently suffered the greatest privation by placing their liberties at the dictation of other people, but like all sensible men they are not ashamed to proclaim their altered opinion. Much has been said about the effects of education, but I am convinced that the working classes, when they become mo re i n t e lli gen t an d en li g h tene d , w i l l cherish as I do their right to think and act for them selves. It is only where gross ignorance prevails that men are induced to join in combinations which deprive them of their rights and liberties. It is well known to me that the freedom of labour in this dis- tie. hits enabled ILe workiug man to elevate and improve his position in a manner that would have been wholly impossible if he had delegated those powers to others. If working men combine upon what grounds can they object to a similar combina- tion of employers of labour ? If such a conspiracy were formed upon a similar scale to the trades unions the position of the working man would be miserable in the extreme, as capital in such a struggle must succeed. To show the competition of foreign workmen I may remark that many years ago I had the joint charge of some ironworks in the north of France with Mr. Jas. Morrison, the well-known ironmaster in the north of England. We found hundreds of Englishmen in almost every depart ment, but we soon discovered that every operation" that was performed by Englishmen cost from 30 to 100 per cent. more than if it was undertaken by the French and Belgian artisan, whose intelligence and industry are proverbial. At that time the com mon labourer received only a franc and a half per day, or 15d. Our sympathies were, of course, with but we soon found we must our fellow-countrymen, pass into the Bankruptcy Court or meet competi tion, and when I left France there was only one Englishman left in the wor'.;.s I had charge of. A recent visit to the French Exhibition has satisfied me of the great strides the foreigners have made in mechanical improvements during the past ten years, and unless the most perfect freedom of labour pre vails in the country in all trades and occupations, the English workman will find himself and family reduced to paupers by the presumption and folly of trades unions. As long as I live I shall never cease to advocate the spread of knowledge and freedom of labour amongst all classes. In the present critical state of society no body of men, however intelligent, can control the trade of the world, which becomes adjusted to the great law of supply and demand, and any interference with such known laws must, sooner or later, bring distrep amongst all people. The workmen of Staveley will long remember with gratitude the presence of the Duke of Devonshire, who has come amongst us at great personal inconve nience to sanction with his presence your non-union movement, and lam sure his grace will not fail to appre ciate and approve the example you have set to your countrymen in the establishment of the non-union movement, which will spread its influence through out the land. (Loud and protracted cheering.) The Duke of DEVONSHIRE then stepped forward, and was greeted with loud cheers. He said—l have listened with attention and equal pleasure to the speeches just delivered by working men. I came here principally in the character of a spectator, and I would gladly have continued to occupy that posi tion. I have no desire to take up the time of this company, but having been called upon by the chair man I think it is my duty to address a few words to you. As one who is deeply interested in the mate rial prosperity of Staveley, and still more interested in its good name, high character, and peaceable conduct, it has given me the very greatest pleasure to be present on this occasion. I may well call this a remarkable occasion, and I think no one ac quainted with the events which have taken place here during the last year will think I use too strong language when I call it such. These events have excited more than a local interest—they are such as well deserve to receive a large share of public attention and to make an impression on the public mind. I scarcely know which of the two parties is most to be congratulated upon the event of this day—whether I should congratulate Mr. Markham, whose conduct has been such as to gain for him this signal mark of the confidence of the working men with whom he is concerned, or congratulate the working men on having been so prompt in recog nising his conduct as being such as to well deserve their approbation. And now let me say one or two more words respecting the purpose for which we are assembled. If I could think this meeting could with any propriety be characterised as a triumph of one class over another—a victory of employers or employed—l for one should not have thought it my duty to be present on this occasion. What appears to me to be the distinguishing character of this assembly is that we are ',net to commemorate a vic tory on the part of both employers and employed— a victory of goo d gu n and judgment on the part of the men in spite of what I take to be bad advice. When I talk of bad advice I do not wish to be misun derstood. I do not know enough of those who came into this district to produce changes and discontent to impute any bad motives to them. But when I speak of bad advice 1 speak of the effects of that advice, and not of the motives that prompted it. The advice was to my mind bad in this degree—it was advice that did not tend to the good of the men, and which could not have led to their advan tage, and which they did well and wisely in repu diating. Now upon no person would it less pro perly devolve than on myself to enter into the cir cumstances which have taken place during the last year. You all know how great and active attempts were made to create a spirit of discontent, and to induce the working men of this country to think they ought to place themselves in an attitude of hostility to the masters. To a certain degree these attempts were at first successful, but there were a considerable number who knew from the beginning that this was all wrong, and could not tend to any ultimate good. They took courage to speak out themselves, and so soon as they did so they found many more coming round to the opinion that there was no real ground for discontent, and that there was no real ground for placing themselves in an attitude of hostility to their employers, and that above all it was not to their interest to allow fetters to be imposed upon them, so as to prevent them disposing of their own labour as they thought best. The opinions of the non-union men gradually pre vailed and gained the preponderance. There can be no more marked testimony to the complete suc cess which had attended their efforts in combination with the earnest and considerate, and temperate and moderate conduct of Mr. Markham, than the scene we have witnessed this day, when so many of the working men of Staveley have come forward to present to Mr. Markham this signal mark of their approbation. lam not going to trespass upon your attention more than to say this occasion will be long remembered as one of the most remarkable in the history of Staveley—it is an event which de serves to be known throughout the country. It is a proof that there is no real antagonism, and that the working n.en know and feel that there is no real antagonism, really in the interests of capital and labour, and that where there is a will there is certainly a way for a good understanding between employers and employed. I trust this good under standing will long continue, and that this day will long be remembered as one of the brightest and most remarkable which ever occurred in the his tory of Staveley. (Loud applause.) Mr. Jackson, M.P. for North Derbyshire; Mr. Allport, general manager of the Midland Railway ; Mr. Ne7.marsh, and several other gentlemen ad dressed the audience to the same purport, and the proceedings, which had been throughout very en thusiastic, terminated with the National Anthem. fin - r 1r - • • YW4. "14,Aft 11t114434 HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Sept. 1. The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill. MR. CHARLES DICKENS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sru,-A newspaper paragraph (originating, I have no doubt, in some innocent mistake), to the effect that I am much out of health, has become widely circulated, both in England and abroad, and has brought many inquiries upon me. Will you allow me to state in your columns that the state ment is wholly destitute of foundation, and that I never was better in my life.—Faithfully yours, CHARLES DICKENS. Gad's hill Place, Iligham-by-Rochester, Kent, September 2. THE RUSSIAN ARMY. Mr. Consul Michell states in his June report that the Budget for 1866, with a supplementary esti nihte, puts the expenditure of the Russian army at 118,792,289 roubles, or about £18,800,000, a saving of above 9,000,000 roubles as compared with the previous year's Budget. But the St. Petersburg Gazette represents that although the Budget of 1865 only provided for the expenditure of 128,000,000 roubles upon the army the expenditure in that year amounted to 150,000,000 roubles. The Gazette says that each Russian soldier costs the State 200 roubles (£3l 135.), and that this sum, though less than the cost in France, is more than that of Prussia or Austria. Senator Hagemeister, in his exhaustive work on the Budget of 1866, in which he estimates the expenditure on the army as 70 per cent. higher than it was in 1845, reckons the pre sent strength of the Russian army, rank and file, at above 800,000. A statistical work recently published by the Ministry of the Interior estimated the strength of the Russian army as follows :—•Regular troops.—Ordinary peace establishment, 902,56 t officers and men, and 69,590 horses ; strengthened establishment, 1,016,641 officers and men, and 93,502 horses ; war establishment, 1,242,182 offi cers and men, and 151,341 horses. The irregular troops are estimated to amount to 229,225 officers and men, and 213,826 horses ; the number enrolled in 1866 was 81,088 officers and men, and 67,225 horses. The Consul remarks that the Russian army is drawn from a male population of 25,000,000 in Russia proper, and from not more than 2,000,000 in the Kingdom of Poland. Irrespective, therefore, of the 45,000 men serving in the Imperial navy, the 800,000 rank and file of the army are supplied by a population of about 55,000,000 male and female, and the army thus constituted 1 4-10 per cent. of that portion of the population which is liable to conscription. The numerical relation of the army to the population of the empire (70,000,000) exceeds that of France and Prussia by one-third. At the same time the number of young men eligible n Rus sia for service is comparatively far smaller than in other countries of Europe, where about 1 per cent. of the population yearly reaches the age of 20 years, and 40 per cent. of these are fit for military service. In Russia, owing to the mortality among children, it takes 50,000,000 of population to pro duce the number of young men of 20 years that France can command with a population of 38,000,000. The number of men of the class liable to military service, who reach the age of 20 in Russia, is, according to this calculation, about 400,000 per annum; of these perhaps not more than 160,000 are fitted for the army, and 100,00 0 are actually taken yearly, and only return to their families after eight years' service. The figures shoal the onerous nature of the conscription in Russia, apart even from the heavy expenditure it involves , amounting in the estimates (always exceeded) to one-third of the gross anticipated revenue. Nor, is this the whole charge to the country. Th e annual expense to the male taxable population of furnish' ing a contingent of 100,000 recruits cannot be less than 3,500,000 roubles (£554,000), while their liability to transport and quarter troops is estimated at 15,000,000 (£2,375,000), the two together con stituting a tax of 60 to 70 copecks (23d. to 27d.) per male. At the same time, in order to possess irregular troops, 3,000,000 of a population occupy' ing the most fertile provinces of the empire are exempted from all taxes and contributions. MR. BRIGHT AND THE AMERICAN WAR.—SoIn° time ago Mr. Bright received from the American ladies managing the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Coloured Women and Children an Afgha n which had belonged to President Lincoln, but which Mr s ' Lincoln had contributed to the National Fair for Orphans' In acknowledging the receipt of this present, Mr. Brig" says :—" I have great satisfaction in viewing the course I took in reference to your great struggle, and of t`T, lament that it w as no t t a k en b y a ll my countrymen. all the influential men of this country had looked with a generous eye upon your late contest, I believe the two i nations would h ave b een un it e d i n a so lid f r i en dship whic, nothing hereafter would have been able to disturb• hope good men and women in both countries will do. sll they can to wipe out the remembrance of all that is 0 111° the past. This is needful for the good of the two couutr iet and for the good of all the world."