The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-27 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The stem of the Rupert, ironclad ram, to be built at Chatham Dockyard, and which has been in course of forging at the smithery in th^t yard, is a ponderous and notable piece of wofz. Its weight is 19 tons, and the dimensions are so large, 30ft. long by about Bft. wide at the lower part — because it is prepared for extending the armour plating some distance below the prow or ram. When this great mass of iron is taken at a white heat by a crane from a furnace to be submitted to the strokes of a five-ton steam hammer, the blows of which shake the whole building, the effect is really grand. The " established" hands in Chatham Dockyard of 59 years of age and upwards are to be super annuated, the Admiralty having issued an order to that effect ; and three men have just been super annuated on that ground—W. Cook, assistant timber converter, at £4l 12s. per annum ; James Harris, shipwright, £3l Os. 9d. ; and James Stur geon, shipwright, £l3 Bs. 6d. The C om mander-in -Chief has approved the transfer of Captain Smyth, 2,1 Battalion 20th Regi ment, to the Ist Battalion of his corps at Kil kenny. Lieutenant Bowers, Ist Battalion 6th Re giment, and Ensign Dickson, 49th Regiment, have r eceived orders to hold themselves in readiness for e m;aarkation for India to join the service companies of thuse corps. The 28 young officers who have recently received their commissions as lieutenants i❑ the Royal Artil lery, have been granted leave of absence till the 14th of Feb., on which day they are required to join their regiment at the depot, Woolwich, for duty. The 2d Dragoon Guards, now on their way to England from India, on board her Majesty's Indian troop relief steamship Serapis, Captain John Soady will disembark at Portsmouth about Monday next and proceeded to Chichester, where the service companies will be joined by the depot, and for a time be quartered. About 500 invalided soldiers from various corps serving in India, who are also on their way home in the Serapis, will be sent on from Portsmouth, on disembarking, to the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley. The 82d (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regi mea:t of Infa❑try, now on its way to England from India, on board her Majesty's troop relief steam steamship Crocodile, Captain Watson, will disem bark at Portsmouth, and occupy quarters in the Cambridge Barracks of the town garrison, now in the possession of the 33d Regiment. The latter is under orders to proceed to the Great Camp at Aldershott. Orders have been received at Chat ham Garrison for the depot of the 82d Regiment, at present quartered in Chatham Barracks, to leave the garrison on the 7th of February for Ports mouth, to await the arrival of the service com panies. The following lectures are to be delivered at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, on the days mentioned :—On January 26 and 31, February 2 and 7, on " Railway Engineering," by Mr. W. Cawthorn, B.Sc. ; on February 9, 11, 14, and 16, on " Hygiene," by Dr. De Chaumont, Assistant Professor of Hygiene at the Army Medical School; and on February 18, 21, 24, and 28, March 3,7, 10, 14, 17, 21, 21, and 28, on " Geology," by Mr. A. IL Green. An order has arrived at Chatham Garrison from• the Horse Guards for the following draughts to be held in readiness to leave the depotsfor conveyance by the overland route to India to join the service companies :-59th Regiment—Captain W. H. Thompson, Lieut. G. Poignand, Ensign F. F. Irwin and Apthorp, two sergeants, and 35 rank and file ; 108th Regiment—Capt. J. E. Wetherall, Lieut. J. M. Urquhart, Ensign Taylor, two ser geants, and 45 rank and file. The depots cf the 59th and 108th are the only ones at Chatham which have not already sent reinforcements to their re spective companies in India and Malta. TEE VOLUNTEERS. A meeting of the field officers and captains of the administrative and consolidated battalions of Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers was held at Bir mingham on Friday night, Lieutenant-Col. Rat cliff in the chair. Among the officers present were Colonel Machell (Leamington.) Major fiebbert, Major Richards, Captains Edwards, Chattock, WTalford, INl‘lnnis, Brown, Salt, Chesshire, Briggs, ilazlehurst, Burt, Mole, and Thornton. The Go vernment proposals fcr modifying the capitation grant and other regulations of the force having been considered the following was proposed by Major flebbert, seconded by Major Richards, and carried unanimously :—" That the Government proposals for the regulation of Rifle Volunteers appear to this meeting illusory as regards the hope held out of additional pecuniary aid by increasing the capitation grant to effective members ; that regarded as a whole, these regulations seemed calculated seriously to in jure the present position and usefulness of the force, and to diminish the zeal and interest of the officers in its efficiency, if not wholly to destroy it. We are of opinion that as little change as possible should be made in the present constitution and re gulations of the force ; but that the increased libe rality, which was professedly the primary object of the new scheme, should be made real and substan ti 11, so that every effective member might be en titled to a capitation grant of not less than 30s. We are also of opinion, that in return for this increased grant, the members of the force should, if so required by the Government, submit to more stringent rules, for securing greater efficiency among both officers and men. We are also of opinion that the time has arrived when some consi deration is due to the officers of the corps, upon whom have mainly rested the organization, drill, and maintenance of the force, from the period of its establibbrnent ten years ago to the present." And the following scheme was proposed : " 1. The Government Capitation Grant, when earned, to be at the disposal of the commanding officer and committee, according to the exist ing War-office regulations. 2. The present dis tinction of efficients and extra efficients to be re tained. 3. The capitation grant to be 203. for each efficient, and a further sum of 19s. for extra effioieney in musketry practice. 4. Eflicients to go through every year all the usual preliminary drills and lectures, with position and aiming drill, and attend six company drills with their own company, and six battalion drills, a minimum of 12 files to be fixed, without which no company drill shall count ; and a minimum of four companies of 16 files for battalion drill. Extra efficients to pass into the second class, and to fire ten rounds in volley firing, with a minimum of five files for each volley. 5. Officers, on the expiration of six months after joining, or promotion, to undergo such reason able examination as the Government may require. 6. Officers who have served ten years and up wards, on retiring, to retain their rank. 7. All 'other existing regulations now in force to remain unaltered." The resolutionists add—" We are in duced to urge most strongly the propriety, indeed, ,the necessity, for retaining the present distinction bet %TOL) efficietits and extra-efficieuts ; and for in ereaeieg the nt to each extra-efficient, for the fol lowing among manyreasons :-1. Th at t h e whole charges for uniforms, ranges, ('rill sergeants, and heal-quarters, are incurred equally for every mem ber of the battalion, whether efficient, extra-effi cient, or non-efficient, the result being known only at the close of the year, when the official returns have to be made to the War- effiee. 2. That the proposal of the Government, that each member shall either make himself efficient and earn the 30s. grant or ray 30.. to the corps, has been found by ex - perience to be utterly impracticable. 3. That such additional aid has become more important by reason of the War-office Circular of M;437 last, re gniring Volunteers (after the example of Aldershot) to assemble for brigade field days, which the pos session of such funds would enable the command ing officers to secure by payment of railway fares an d expenses for the men who assemble for that purpose." By a final resolution it was determined that a copy of the foregoing, or a memorial founded thereupon, be sent to Lord Leigh, as Lord Lieu tenant of the county, with a request to his lordship to forward the same to the Secretary of State for the War Department. LETTER - FROM DR.`" LIVINGSTONE. _ ,i 1 An interesting letter from Dr. Livingstone is published. It is earlier in date than the last communication received, The most xecent was dated Ujiji, May 30, 1869.. ne following was written on the 2nd of February, 1867. lie, could not say exactly where he was when he wrote :- - " I have not taken my latitude here even, but reckc os that I am about 10 deg. 10 min. south, and 31 del 50 min. east. We are probably about 4,5001 feet above the sea; but I guess that from thee barometer, which stood at 30 . 00 inches at the sea level,. now showing 25 - 50 'inches. I have come a long way about; could not go round the north end of the lake (Nyassa), partly from want of food, partly from fear that my Johanna men would bolt at the first sight of danger ; and they did skedadle, after all, at the south end, on the mere report of danger in front from the hlaritu. Their eyes actually stood out with fear as those of an ox sometimes do. I was then left with a following of only nine Africans. The Johanna fellows were such inveterate thieves, constantly stealing from their loads and from the gardens of the people, that it was a relief to get rid of them. I would have crossed at the middle of the lake, but the Arabs avcided me as if I had had the plague. No sooner did they hear that the English were coming than off they scampered through bush and brake across pathless forests, "Dcii tak the hindmost." The English name was for the first time an inconvenience. The highlands of Magomero extend up parallel with the lake to an unknown distance. The watershed is almost fifty miles east of the lake, and there wo counted fifteen running burns in one day's march — the sources of the Rovuma. Here the same process of depopulation goes on. It is in the hands of the half caste Arabs. It is Agawa against hlanguaja, or as they are called Waiyan against Wanyana. It was on this high and cool country that poor Bishop Mackenzie hoped to have his mission in time. At the town of Mataka, opposite the middle of the lake and fifty miles east of it, we saw a great many patches of English peas in full bearing and blossom in July. The people understand the season to plant them in, and wheat would undoubtedly flourish if irrigated by one of the numerous springs which run among the hills. It is a land of plenty. But instead of the three weeks' easy canoe sail up the Zambezi and Shire, the other route took three and a half months' weary treadmill trudging. I had, however, an intolerable drag in the Sepoys, and sent them all back from Dlatakasi. I heard afterwards that seven of them remained to let their pay run on. . . . I feel more and more that Africa must be civilised from within. No people can be more hopelessly bigotted than the coast slaving tribes. Mataka is a better subject than any to be found within 200 Miles of the coast. (Here follows description of a gang of slaves he met.) We visited the three most important Agawa, or Wangan chiefs near the south end of the lake, and then went to Katosa or Kreemasuas, an old friend, who thought that plying us with huge baskets of beer was the proper way of showing respect. We wanted to go up to Kirk's Renge and avoid the Mazetu, but the people below were afraid of those above, because they had driven back a party of slaving Arabs. Katosa at last turned out with his wives to carry our extra loads, rather than see his old friend at a standstill, and the fat ladies soon shamed the young dandies with their sharp tongues. Kirk's Range is just the edge of a plateau, high and cold, and densely peopled by Manganyia in their primitive state. They go by different names, as Kanthunda—those who live on mountains jutting out of the plateau, Chipeta—those who live more on the plains, but pure Manganya, spinning buaze and working iron. It is too cold, apparently, for cotton. Their huts are plastered inside and out—even the roofs to defend themselves against the cold. One village was scarcely over a mile from another. They were extremely hospitable. I gave a cloth to the headman of the village where we spent the night, and he immediately gave us all a bountiful supper and breakfast next morning. . . . The had never slaved, and I spent a good deal of time in trying to warn them against com mencing it. We went westwards till we imagined we were beyond the longitude of the Mazetu, and then turned to the north, making fer the point we left off at in 1863. We came at last to parts where Mazetu had plundered the year before, and once nearly walked into the hands of a party of them out plundering. We had killed a hartebeeste, and wore surprised to see two parties of villagers pass us at a trot. They had escaped from the villages to which we were bound, and the Mazetu were actually there. We turned westward again, but never came near the Portuguese route to Cazembe. The map-makers have placed it too far east. We crossed the Leang,wa. in 12.45 and about thirty miles west of Nomberurne; then the great Leangwa valley—the bed of an ancient lake; then mounted the Babira plateauin the southern borders of 11 deg.south. The watershed between Chambeze (the Zambesi is here called), and Leangwa rises to 6,600 feet. Crossing the Chambeze in latitude 10.35, we found in flood with clear water; but the lines of trees which sheaved its actual banks were only forty yards apart, and came here on the last day of January, 1867. If lam not much mistaken we are on the watershed we arc in search of. Luapula is in front; but I hope to tell you better about it when we reach Tanganyika in May next. The Barbera country is depopulated by their own slaving. Most of the central parts of the country are covered with forest. Sobisa, we passed through when it was dripping wet, for this is the rainy season, and more water falls than I ever saw in Africa. The few people had no food to sell, no animals could be seen, and we had, my friend, hard lines. The few people wore living chiefly on mushrooms; they could collect a half cwt. in a short time—good, of course, but only for producing dreams of the roast beef of bygone days. Trudging through dripping forests and across sloppy, marshy places—the feet almost constantly wet, and gnawing hunger at the inner man—soon took the flesh off our bones. The want of salt made the gnawing sensation worse. Of sugar I scarcely remember the taste, but I am like a certain brood of pigs that take to fat kindly. "We shall rest a fortnight hero. Lost all our medicines, making me feel as if sentence of death by fever had, as in my poor friend Mackenzie's case, been passed upon me." A later note received, while it gives no details, describes the Doctor as pursuing his work under great difficulties. COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) A LABORIOUS OCCUPATION.—Shop-lifting. NEW LEGAL DEFINITION.—A Copyholder.—A Com positor. PROBABLE.—What the cab proprietors will soon find it, if the now arrangement is carried out—A flagging trade. THE Two SI3IONS.—M. Jules Simon has been speaking wisely in the Legislative Body for free trade. May tb,e countrymen of that gentleman prefer the counsels of Jules Simon to those of Simple. EARLY WISDOM.—Madge : " I say, George, wouldn't it be nice to go to a pantomime ?"—George : "0 ! wouldn't it ?!! "—Madge : "In a box, you know ?!! "—George s "Yes 1 in mamma's lovely new rortmanteau I" (From Fun.) ITANDir BOOK-Manxrus.—Dirty fingers. THE FIRST SUB-MARINE TELEGRAPIL—A Middy's wink. AN OLIVE BRANCH (LET US HOPE).—Tho 01livier Ministry. PAYING Tllaol - GlI TILE NosE.—The M.P. who wins his seat by a protracted canvass in Bermondsey fairly deserves a share of the " sweets " of office. (From Jay.) The Pale of Civilisation—Pearl powder. Song for Wet Weather—`Long to rain over us." The sort of arithmetic the Government understand best—Reduction. You should never take the word of a lato riser—The man must, indeed, be a dreadful liar'Who lies a-bed. When is a thief like a sempstress?-:-When he cuts and runs. A lot of folks are continually getting "stout," but re maining thin ! The French Legislative Chamber must be a dark place-- M. Rochefort enters it by means of a Lanterne. There was foul (foWl)' play . at ' the late Tipperary oleo.: tion—A Heron and a Crane were feloniously beaten. POLITICAL.—If her Majesty ruled over the entire globe, could she be called the Reine of Terra? PATHOS.—Fond Mother: "And what would Johnny do if poor Mamma were to die ?" Johnny: " Eat up all the sugar!" TARIM} THE BREAD OUT OF MS MOUTII.—In some re cent observations in tho Times on tho present situation in Prance, occurs this remarkable passage:—" It is said that when Emile 011ivier, having ordered the apprehension of M. Pierre Bonaparte, communicated the fact to the Emperor, and asked his approval, a tear dropped along that usually impassible face, and testified the heaviness of the blow." Now, this isn't fair. If the 2'1271C3 goes on at this rate, what—ah! what become of the Paris corre spondent of the Daily Telegraph? • BREAKFAST.— EPPS'S COCOA.— GRATEFUL AN D Coax - FORTING,—The very agreeable character of this preparation has r2oderai it a geuer tl favourite. The 'Civil Service Gazette' re marks:—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his homccopathie preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which g overn the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the flue properties of well-selected ocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deli cately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled " JA3IIIS EPPS S Cp, , Hein ceo Pe4thig Chemists, Lyndon. THE SUN, LONDON, VtitIMAY "SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times remarks that Mr. Stansfeld acquitted himself 4t Halifax on Tuesday last, of a comprehensive task with :Ina' candour and ability. He undertook to shew that :he Administration to which he belonged had redeemed Its promises in the past, and might be expected to fulfil its obligations in the future. Mr. Gladstone's Ministry, tie said, succeeded to power with distinct duties and .esponsibilities. It was first bound to settle the Irish Jhurch Question, then to restore economy in the finances of the country, and finally to turn the new motive tower of a Reformed Parliament to account in measures of utility and promise. The Irish Church Question was settled accordingly, nor was it any reproach to say that the settlement had not produced the instanta neous pacification of Ireland. Mr. Stansfield, in deed, had the courage to go a bit further, and acknowledge frankly that even the termination of the Land Question itself could not be expected to achieve such an .mpossibility, or to satisfy all the hopes that might have neen conceived. With these glimpses we must content Jurselves for a fortnight longer; but, after the Land Bill, what is to follow ? On this point Mr. Stansfield spoke with great hesitation, as if the figure of six omni uses abreast were before his eyes There was the ,bolition of university tests, a subject of great importance, Ind one, too, on which "the Liberal party were united pen a solution ;" yet Mr. Stansfeld hardly expected to tee the University Tests Bill carried. He had more con fidence in the Licensing Bill, though it is hard to see why ;his should take precedence of the University Bill, except s less likely to provoke opposition. Then there was edu cation and the ballot, the latter question, including a .omprehensive reform of election procedure. Of the ,rmy Mr. Stansfeld said nothing, but as regarded the ,avy he declared himself in a position to affirm that we were actually stronger than we were before. He told cis hearers that the Admiralty reforms had not only liminished expenditure, but " had led to a positive increase of the real naval power of the country." Of effective ships and effective seamen we ha7e a more powerful force than ever. By and by we shall probably he wondering why reforms at once so obvious and so pro ductive were left so long unattempted, but in the mean- I time we may allow fair credit to those who first effectually I undertook the work. The Standard trusts that the recent meeting at the Mansion House in favour of emigration was only the fore runner of various other gatherings of the same kind. The abject of the National Emigration League is one which is most legitimately a matter of public agitation. It has passed out of the domain of party action, and it cannot be aged as a pretext for political manoeuvres. We have a sufficient guarantee in the names of the men who cave lent themselves to this movement, to be con rinced that this is purely a national question, which nust be urged, if at all, by the voice of the whole people of the country. We claim the support of ill in favour of it who are interested in the well .seing of England and of her colonies. We claim especially the support of the masses of the working men, whose searest and best concern this is. If only the working men will persevere in this most patriotic agitation there is no government strong enough in England to resist their lemand. They must not be put off with the usual excuses A Liberals in office ; they must not submit to be told that 'here is no way by which the State can carry out a scheme A national emigration. It is the business of the Govern nent to find a way. They are there for the very purpose ;hat they should govern, and government does not mean silly the reduction of expenses and the elabora ,ion of theories. A Government which turns away thousands of workmen, and itself contributes to the national distress, is especially bound to provide ieasures of relief. A Government which can undertake .0 do what this Ministry have undertaken to do in respect o the grievances of Ireland cannot shirk the more press ng duty of satisfying the wants of the people of the whole mpire. A Government of which the members talk of free land" for the Irish, is under a peculiar obligation o open the way to the lands which are already free-- which may be obtained without wrong to any one, which equire only that the road to them should be bridged in 3rder that they may become accessible to the teeming nillions of this kingdom. A Government which cannot lo this—which is content to see the life-blood of England stagnate in poverty at home, or go to nourish the strength 3f our enemy, has no claim to be reckoned patriotic, much less, a Liberal Government. The Daily News declares that the universal approval with which the change .in the telegraphs is made is a :cmarkabpa testimony to the general efficiency of post )ffice management. No other Government department :ould ask to be allowed to supersede private enterprise with any chance of public approval. If the Board of Trade proposed to absorb the railway, or the Admiralty to work the great steamship lines, or even the Home Office so supply us with cabs, the proposal would be received with general antagonism and suspicion. But the post- Ace is popular. It does for us what private enterprise would never do. In handing over the telegraphs to the Post-office the public has, therefore, mly completed the recognised function of the department is the great engine of intercommunication in modern civi sisation. The demand that everything shall be saciified to security and despatch has double force now that the whole telegraph system of the country passes under Government tontrol. An uniform fare must be accompanied by nn uniform service. To cultivate places which pay w , ;11, and neglect those which pay badly, is just what tan be done, and has been done, under the .ystem of trading companies; we look to the iovernment to do more and better than this for us, snd to treat all places alike. This consideration alone iustifies the monopoly which tho Post Office has asked end got. The Government must not work the telegraphs .nerely for revenue—must not regard them as a source of revenue; but must work them with a single eye to the zonvenience of the public. If this is done, the transfer to cc begun to-morrow will be an unmixed benefit to the .lountry. A telegraphic system as complete as our Post Office system, as efficiently organised, and as admirably worked, may be as great a gain to the country as the Post Office itself was when it was first established, and may oecome as essential an element in the business and social life of our posterity as the penny post has become in our own. The Pall .3fall Gazette observes that the tendency of all departments to grow, and to find work for themselves to chew the necessity for growth, is proverbial. It has never however, been illustrated so forcibly as in the forma tion of the control system by the War Office. The theory favoured by the chief has been that the department's stores should be regarded as a huge shop ready to supply from a central point all military requirements ; and although the expense of carrying out this idea has added enormously to the cost of a great part of the stores, the real object has been thoroughly attained of keeping a host of officials at the War Office, at the Tower, at Woolwich, and all large stations, constantly supplied with a sufficient amount of correspondence. In the attempt to divest com manders of the responsibility hitherto strictly enforced upon them by the War Office, the Administration has unknowingly gone further towards the crea tion of an irresponsible bureaucracy than the Government of any free nation ever went before. In fine, we have still our dual government of the army; and the net result of the present state of things is that, in order to make both ends meet, Mr. Cardwell is about to cut down dangerously the working combatant portion of the army; to reduce the military staff in such a way that there will henceforth be no object in any officer's qualifying himself by study for any higher than regi mental duty; and at the same time we are erecting a huge army within an army, a War Office within a War Office of extravagantly paid and comfortably lodged officials, neither soldiers nor civilians, realising Dryden's satire on the militia of his day— " Mouths without hands, maintained at vast expense ; In peace a charge, in war a weak defence." From first to last, no greater tissue of administrative mistakes has been made than in the form and manner of erecting a department which apparently conceives the army as made for itself instead of itself for the army.' The Telegraph says that a question has arisen under the Friendly Societies Act which seriously affects the inte rests of a class peculiarly deserving of sympathy, The Act of 1855 defines the objects for which such institutions may be established, and among the purposes specified is " the relief or maintenance of the members, their hus bands, wives, children, brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces, in old age, sickness, or widowhood." The question is whether "sickness" includes mental malady—in other words, whether a member who unhappily be comes deranged can be relieved by these societies. The late Mr. Tidd Pratt, who was a lawyer of great ex perience, held the opinion that the managers would not be justified in giving relief to a member so afflicted ; and the deceased Registrar also considered that a provision for the insane could not legally be inserted in the rubs of such an association. Mr. Elliott, the police magistrate at Lambeth, takes a contrary view, and on Tuesday he gave an extra-judicial opinion, that lunacy might be included under the word " sickness." The authority of Mr. Tidd Pratt is deservedly high, and, in view of the degree to which administration and contribu tion rates have been guided by the accepted rule, it would be most undesirable to invoke any hasty treatment of the question ; but the interpretation of the statute given by Mr. Elliot certainly seems the most rea sonable. " Sickness " is defined in our dictionaries to be " disease; disorder of the body ;" and what is madness but a disease of the brain? There is a custom of speaking about bodily and mental maladies as if they were quite distinct; but, strictly speaking, a man never goes mad without that part of his body which is the seat of thought becoming diseased, and his affliction may there fore be aptlyexpresited by the significant old English word I.'ll/91601110... WLS . XI EDUCATION CONFERENCE. An Aberystwith corretpondent telegraphs that at the conference which met in that town yesterday to consider the prospects of the University College for Wales, a committee was appointed to endeavour to procure a grant from the Government. It was also resolved that requests should be sent to thirty gentlemen, asking each of them to lend £250 for Lye years without interest, in order that the college may open at once. FREE INQUIRY IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS, A paper has been read by the Solicitor-General before a very influential body of London clergy and others, on the " Limits of Free Inquiry in the Established Church." No report of the proceeding appeared at the time, but the Inquirer gives an outline of some of the most prominent sentiments expressed. Mr. Coleridge pro nounced no opinion upon the question which now divides the Church of England, but he dwelt on the political nature of the Establishment, and, being a political institution, a wide latitude of ideas was necessary. If a Church ceased to represent differences of opinion, it ceased to be national. The penal laws by which the Established Church in Ireland had been supported were without a parallel : it was a shameful history, and it was a matter of congratu lation that the supremacy of the Church in Ireland hadnow been subverted. Mr. Coleridge also said, in the course of his remarks, advocating fne discussion and inquiry in all religious matters, that the Church, in the cha racter of an establishment was a national insti tution as much as the Houses of Parliament or the army and navy, and that those who dissent from its formularies have as Englishmen an interest in it, and a right to interfere with its constitution.—ln the discussion which followed Dean Stanley took part. PROFESSOR MORLEY ON KING ARTHUR. Professor Henry Morley has delivered his second lecture on "King Arthur, his place in Literature, from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Tennyson,"in the Birmingham Institute. He took up his subject at the time of Spenser, and said up to that point the King Arthur legends originated in a true fact of history, and probably a true person. The historical fact was the struggle of the Celt against the Saxon, which brought out the best energies of the Celt, and brought out, too, a strain of poetry. Geoffrey of Monmouth, was the originator of the Arthur stories, and Walter Map, a man of rare genius, was the :harmoniser of them. When we read Tennyson's "Holy Grail," if we have read the version in Sir Thomas Mallory's book, we cannot help feeling how bright the old story was, nor that the poet of our own age has not ex pressed it morebrightly or more truly than it was expressed by Walter Map. Sir Thomas Mallory's arrangement of the King Arthur Stories was printed by Caxton, and thence forward we have the King Arthur Stories as he arranged them. Professor Mcrley then entered at considerable length into the poetry of Spencer, whom he classed among the four great poets. Shakspere and Chaucer represented universal genius ; Spencer and Milton, the individual Englishmen of their time. The old Arthurian legends were adopted by Spenser in a high and spiritual sense, while Milton conceived an epic on King Arthur, but he abandoned it for "Paradise Lost." Dryden's "King Arthur" was written at the end of the reign of Charles 11., but not produced till after the Revolu tion of 1688. It was very artificial, and only deserved mention because Dryden's name was a name of honour. Later on we have a snatch of " Morte d'Arthur," by Bishop Hober, who made his Guinevere a village maid. Then came Lord Lytton's epic, whose exe cution was not equal to his ambition, but whose treatment of the subject was in full accordance with the whole treat ment of the Arthur legends. Mr. Morley is to deliver a third and concluding lecture on the subject in the course of a few weeks. THE DERBY HORSES. "Augur," of the Sporting Life, makes the following remarks on the latest proceedings of the candidates for this year's Turf Blue Riband ;—" Sunshine is in more demand than she has been for a very considerable time, 1,000 to 150 being accepted in one hand about her a day or two ago. Bridgwater is just now decidedly the lion of the betting. 1,600 to 100 being taken, and 1,000 to 65 on Monday, the demand for him being so great that no more than 14 to 1 was procurable, which odds were booked to £5O. It is beyond question that last autumn he just accomplished a great task set him with Palmerston, and if he runs to the form in public, I have little hesitation in saying that he will prove the equal, if not the superior, of his illustrious brother St. Albans. Public backers were pretty well sickned of "dark" ones with Bread albane, so seldom is it that own brothers or sisters turn out equally good. St. Albans and Savernake were exceptions to this, as were also Lord Lyon and Achievement. Gentlemen who have horses training in the vicinity of Fyfield, and who have had frequent opportunities of seeing Bridgwater, inform me that he has a magnificent appearance, and from the nature of my information it will astonish me if the offspring of Bribery does not prove himself a. ' nailer' in 1870; that is, presuming he continues sound and well. I hear that as soon as the spring advances Challoner will ride him in some gallops, on pnrpose to have that splendid jockey's opinion of the horse's merit 3. The public are evidently so taken with the family connections of Bridgwater that ho will doubtless be an enormous favourite for both the Two Thousand and Derby. Lord Ailesbury races for honour. Filthy lucre ranks but little in his lordship's considera tion, and hence the extra confidence of backers. Sunlight has grown into one of the finest three year old that ever trod the turf, and, if his heart will let him, he has yet a brilliant career before him. When tried at home last season he was invariably better than Sunshine, and therefore Waugh continually lost his money in trusting him. King o' Scots, though fre quently backed at outside prices, is a son of King Tom, which is nearly enough for me ; but, apart from that, he is shifty, and not the sorndest horse in the world. The Exciseman commission seems to have becomo exhausted, as the I,ooo's to 30 are refused, though 40 to 1 would be accepted. Alaric and Cymbal are attractive long shots with the public, and their names are frequently mentioned. Alaric, thong' of an honest, hardy character, has never struck me as a Derby aspirant. His claims to be considered ;he coming Gladiateur, with which we have been threatened almost as long as with the advent of the millenium, are moonshine. Cymbal is, however, a horse of another colour, and, as expressed in previous articles, his form was so consistent in the past season, that he has, according to my impression, quite a 20 to 1 chance. He has, I learn on excellent authority made remarkable improvement, and William Goater and the persons immediately interested in him are very partial to his Epsom prospects." THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THREE CHILDREN. Mr. F. Blake, coroner of Newport, has received Dr. Taylor's report of the chmical examination made in the cases of the three children of W. F. Foster, Esq., surgeon of that town. It will be remembered that the children had been suffering from tough, and died withing a short time after they had taken a mixture made up for them by Mr. Saunders, Mr. Foster's assistant. The symptoms attend ing the deaths of the children were similar to those of irritant poisoning: Dr. Taylor considers that the children died from natural causes. He expressed an opinion that cer tain circumstances connoted with the deaths of the three children gave some probability to the theory of accidental poisoning, and the case vas one which called for the fullest scientific investigation. Now there was not, in his opinion, the shadow of a ground for imputing death to poison. Dr. Taylors report has, in courtesy, been submitted to the jury, who will meet again for the consideration of their verdict. LAW AND POLICE. Ax Acnorr FOR LlBEL.—Judgment was given on Wed nesday in the Court of Common Pleas in the suit of " Dickens v. Haywood and others," in which the question was whether a verdict for £5OO against Mr. Cursham should stand, the libel being a letter written to the agent of the Duke of Portland, the plaintiff's landlord, complaining that he had destroyed game. The court gave their decision in favour of the plaintiff, the verdict being set aside. THE INTERMINABLE LCTIONS AGAINST THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SMITH COAST RAILWAY.-011 Wednesday, in the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Lopes, Q.C., moved for a rule to shew cause why a fresh inquiry should not bo directed in the ease of Mary Hay v. the above company, in which a jury, in Mr. Secondary Potter's Court, awarded damages at £6OO for injuries sustained by the accident at New Cross in June last, on the occasion of the return of the excursion train from the Licensed Victuallers' fete at the Crystal Palace. The plaintiff, who is a barmaid, appeared to be so affected when she came into the jury box that she obtained very heavy damages ; but her simulated indisposition on the occasion of giving her evidence was inconsistent with the subsequent trips to Ramsgate, excursions to Hackney, and the enjoyment of a round of pleasures. It was only fair that a popular prejudice against a public company should not be the agency for fleecing them to an unreasonable extent. The court granted the rule, subject to the course to be adopted with numberless other similar actions brought against the London and Brighton Railway Company. It is to be noticed, with regret, that the local builders are advertising their "desirable residences" as being near the new house of the Poet-Laureate, at Haslemere. ,One land agent offers a good view of the same. M. Tenzyso; wa§ j driven hdroza2 • his , residenco _Falk. dintakiikt ilktrulap main! pogt, JAN:CARY 27; 1870. FOREIGN NOTES. PARLIAMENTARY CORRUPTION IN AUSTRALIA. The conduct of some of the colonial members of Parlia ment in connection with their transactions at the Lands Department has been again brought under the notice of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria. The committee appointed to inquire into the working of the Lands De partment sent in a report condemnatory of the con duct of two members of Parliament, Messrs. Stutt and Miller. Only Mr. Stutt's case was taken, and the Assembly acquitted him. The Melbourne Argus, however, does not attribute this acquittal to the innocence of the accused, but to the foregone determina tion of the Assembly to acquit its members in the face of the evidence. From the time the report was brought up it was evident that the Opposition had resolved to make it a party question, as the M'Culloch section could not afford to lose the votes of the accused members and those associated with him. The charge against Mr. Stutt was that he sold his influence as a member of Parliament to secure a certain piece of land to a man named Mills. The late Attorney-General defended him, and argued that he should be acquitted, as even supposing he took the money, he afterwards acted against the interests of Mills. Such at least is the version of the affair given by the Argus, but there seems little doubt that the land transactions have been occasionally very questionable. The Land Bill has been sent back amended by the Council. It is tp be hoped that these amendments will not cause a great difference between the Houses. The Bills providing for the payment of Members of Parliament and abolishing State aid to religion have both been rejected by large majorities in the Council. RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA. Congress has finally passed the measure readmitting Virginia to its rights as one of the United States. It is stipulated that Virginia State officers must take the oath that they are not disqualified by complicity in the rebel. lion, or else that Congress has removed the disqualifica tion. The Virginia State Constitution is never to be altered's° as to deprive negrces of the striae rights of suf frage, office-holding, and school privileges as whites, or to require different qualifications for office-holding or voting on the part of negroes from those required in whites. THE 'WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The Italian Commission for promoting the London Workmen's International Exhibition of next July has issued a circular to the municipalities, presidents of the Chambers of Commerce, and managing committees of working men's clubs, through the peninsula. The late Minister of the Interior, the Marquis Rudini, is the President of this Commission, and among the members are Depretis, formerly Minister of the Interior, and other distinguished persons. After alluding to the object of the exhibition, the circular de clares that Italy could not prove wanting in so useful a rivalry. It was necessary for the workmen themselves, and those interested in their progress, to set vigorously to work, in order that the contribution made by Italian workmen should not appear to disadvantage among those of other nations. In order to attain the desired end it will be requisite for the Chambers of Commerce to promote the formation of provincial committees. Their immediate province would be to diffuse by means of the press and by conversations the notice of the approaching event, to put themselves in communication with the best known and most zealous workmen, to collect the greatest amount of information as to the trades most prevalent in the place, to classify them by their natural groups, to open, if necessary, collections and subscriptions, and finally to complete all those prepara tory works which must precede the final task of the selection and transmission of the articles to be exhibited. The circular goes on to say that the action of the Govern ment in the matter is greatly limited, and it eo 's not seek to invade the field reserved to private initiative. " It cannot be indifferent to a work of such importance, and the Commission hopes that its assistance will not be wanting in case of necessity ITALIAN FINANCES. The opening of the Italian Parliament, which was to take place on the Ist of February, has been postponed by a royal decree until the 7th of March. The reason for this ronewed prorogation is that Signor Sella finds it impos sible to prepare his complete financial scheme by that time. Signor Sella intends on the 7th of March-1. To explain the exact situation of the Treasury. 2. To present detailed accounts of the receipts and expenditure for 1867. 3. To furnish exact data as to the manner in which the funds destined for the maintenance of public worship are administered. 4. To shew the actual position of the ecclesiastical property which the State is empowered to alienate. 5. To introduce important modi fications in the Budgets of 1870. 6. To explain the economics which the Ministry propose to practise in the expenditure already commenced. 7. To compile the budgets for the year 1871, with the addition of some im portant laws for the reduction of the army, the reduction of several taxes, and for changes of the judicial organisa tion. The Ministers believe that these measures will restore the financial equillibrium, and there is reason to hope that their disciplined majority in the Chamber will enable them to carry out the programme. PRINCE HENRY OF BOURBON. A Madrid letter in the Debats states that a letter of Prince Henry of Bourbon, brother of Don Francis d'Assize, has been going the round of the journals, and has caused quite a sensation. The writer relates that, being in Paris in September, he met Marshal Prim, and that the latter respectfully counselled Isabella to accept the spirit of the liberal programme carried out in September by the Revolution, if she wished to preserve some hopes for the restoration of her son, Prince Alphonse. The Queen was on the point of abdicating, when her friends prevented her from so doing. The Marshal denies the truth of the story. THE SPEECH OF COUNT BEUST. The speech which Count Beust delivered before the Chamber of Deputies was considered an important one. He did not altogether coincide in the views entertained by the three Ministers who have sent in their resigna tion, but he was much less in favour of centralisation than the majority of the Cisleithan Cabinet. He said that he would vote in favour of the address, because it contained some passages which were favourable to a reconciliation with the nationalities. His speech did not give much satisfaction to the Centralist party. According to the North-East Correspondence the Ministers, on quitting the Chamber, avoided meeting Count Beust, and again tendered their resignation to tv. Emperor. TILE JEWS IN RUSSIA. The Russian Government has encountered many serious difficulties in its efforts to disseminate primary intruction among the people. True, the Zemstwa, or Provincial States have shown an unexpected willingness in the cause, and the nobility have come forward with large donations. The Jews, however, are a formidable obstacle. Those in the districts of the Vistula are profoundly ignorant. A Warsaw journal, the Israelite, states that in a Polish village the elders of the synagogue, wishing to found a Jewish school, convoked ameeting of the heads of families in their district. The richest man present listened to the exhortation to subscribe to the undertaking, and replied, "My grandfather was rich without knowing how to sign his name; my father scarcely knows how to write, but ho is oneof the most distinguished Jews of Warsaw; and I, who am not better educated than my relations, I am the richest among you. This is why I will not have my children spending their time in the trifles you propose." The Government is very anxious to civilise the Jews of the Western pro vinces, whose language is a compound of Hebrew, German, and Polish. Very few of the Jews who carry on business n Russia know the Russian language. The latest news from Thorncliffe is that all is quiet. Subscriptions to a considerable amount have already been volunteered for the purpose of indemnifying the sufferers at the bands of the rioters, and it is expected that in a day or two at most a sufficient sum will be subscribed in Sheffield without any public meeting being held. A meeting of the working classes is arranged to be held in London, to "uphold and strengthen the connection between the mother country and the colonies." Sir G. Grey will preside on the occasion, and speeches will be delivered by Mr. John Buskin, Mr. Froude, the historian, and other well-known gentlemen. It is said that the movement bas elicited a warm expression of sympathy on the part of Mr. Thomas Carlyle, Mr. John Stuart lid ill, and Mr. Alfred Tennyson. A murder is reported from the neighbourhood of Newport, Monmouthshire. A few nights back a travelling tinker, named Rafferty, quarrelled with his wile at Black wood, and in attempting to strike her, hit his child, an in fant in arms, a fatal blow. On the death cf the child, Rafferty doubled up the body and buried it in a ditch. It was afterwards found by a ioliceman, and at the coroner's inquest on Saturday, a verdict of manslaughter was re turned against the inhuman parent. The Chatham division of the Royal Marines are ordered to wear the new pattern shako and forage cap. Fifty million envelopes are sold annually, and stamped with the crest and address from upwards of 35,000 steel dies, at Parkins and Gotto's, who make no charge for stamping or cement ing, and, having only one price, undertake to supply the nobility and gentry with every description of writing paper and envelopes of the best and most fashionable kind, at extraordinarhy low charges. Monograms, crest, or address dies cut at less than half price. Coloured stamping reduced from 2s. to ls. per 100. Arms, monograms, and crests emblazoned. 60 stampers, die sinkers, and engravers being kept upon the premises, all orders are exe cuted with great despatch. Dance programmes, invitations, at home notes, MSS. books, return thanks, bordered and overland papers, dish, dessert, and bouquet papers, and every description of fancy and household stationery. Parkins and Gott() ; manu • facturin stapnere, 24 and 2; Clzford:gtreet, THE PUBLIC REAM!: (From the Registrar-General's Report.) The following is the weekly return by the Registrar-General of Births and Deaths in Lon don and in ten other large towns of the United Kingdom : General Register-office, Somer.set-house, January 24. In the week that ended on Saturday, the 22d inst., 5,166 births and 3,831 deaths were registered in London and 19 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per thousand persons living, and the same as in the previous week. The annual rates of mortality last week in the 17 English cities and boroughs, ranged in order from the lowest, were as follows :-19 per 1,000 in Wolverhampton, 19 in Bradford, 21 in Huh, 24 in Portsmouth, 22 in Norwich, 23 in Leicester, 23 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 24 in Sunderland, 25 in Birmingham, 26 i❑ Leeds, 26 in Liverpool, 27 in London, 30 in Salford, 31 in Manchester, 31 in Nottingham, 31 in Sheffield, and, the highest rate during the week, 37 per 1,000 in the city of Bristol. Scarlet fever showed an in creased fatality last week in London, Sheffield, and Leeds, but had declined in several of the other large towns. The greatest mortality from this dis ease last week occurred in Ecel, sall Bierlow sub district of Sheffield borough, which, from an esti mated population of about 56,000 persons, returned 36 deaths, of which 18 were fatal cases of scarlet fever. In these 17 large English towns 247 deaths were referred to scarlet fever last week, against 241 and 218 in the two previous weeks. Whooping cough continues somewhat fatally prevalew:in Manchester and Salford and in Birmingham. The deaths registered last week in Edinburgh were at the annual rate of 36 per 1,000 persons living, in Glasgow 38 per 1,000, and in Dublin 29. Scarlet fever shows au increasing fatality in Dublin, and resulted in 15 deaths last week. In the week ending last Saturday the deaths re gistered in Paris showed an annual death-rate of 27 per 1,000 persons living. The deaths in Berlin in the seven days ending Thursday, the 20th inst., gave an annual rate of 28 per 1,000, and in Vienna during the week ending the 15th inst. of 28 per 1,000. Smallpox is very prevalent in Paris, and caused 48 deaths last week, against 40 and 27 in the two previous weeks. In London the deaths from smallpox in the three past weeks have, to gether, not exceeded 28. In London the births of 1,130 boys and 1,109 girls, in all 2,239 children, were registered last week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years 1860-69 the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,283. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,652. It was the third week of the year, and the average number of deaths for the week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,794. The deaths iu the present return are less by 142 than the estimated number. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 374, the corrected average number being 358. Eight deaths from smallpox, 41 from measles, 143 from scarlet fever, 8 from diphtheria, 55 from whooping -cough, 12 from typhus fever, 12 from enteric (or typhoid) fiver, 15 from simple continued fever, and 15 from diarrhoea were registered. The registrar of the Trinity sub-district of St. Saviour, Southwark, remarks, in reference to a fatal case of smallpox, which occurred at 10, har per-street :—" There have been four cases of small pox in this family, none vaccinated, the parents ob jecting. The street is fully populated." _ A builder, aged 31 years, died on the 14th of January at 135, Bridport-place, Hoxton Old Town, from " relapsing fever." The deaths from scarlet fever were 29 in excess of the number recorded in the preceding week ; 18 cases occurred in the West District, 27 in the North, 15 in the Central, 31 in the East, and 52 in the South Districts. Plithisis and pneumonia were not so fatal as in the previous week, but the deaths from bronchitis exhibit an increae. The deaths of seven children and one adult from burns or scalds, and two persons from drowning, of eight infants from suffocation, and of eight per 61.11Cidli were registered. 111 E OF IN . The statements from Madrid, published on Sa turday, as to the details of a financial inea3nre, said to have been adopted I.y the Spanish Minister of Finance, prove to have been correct. The tone of the preamble read in the Cortes, of which, owing to its length, only au indication can be given, is honourable to Senor Figuerola. He says that in the Budget he presented in May, 1869, in which the sinking fund and interest corresponding to the issue of the Treasury Bonds against the hypotheca tion of the promissory notes of the purchases of national properties made in 1868, as well as to the whole of the loan 1869, were included, the deficit was 831 million reals (£8,310,000) ; but that as out of these there is one half of the bonds of the said loan and £7,140,000 of Treasury Bonds which have not been negotiated, the interest, &c., upon them and other economies already effected have reduced this deficit to £6,130,000. He accepts the Budget of his predecessor, Senor Ardanaz, not yet discussed, in the part that relates to many useful and welcome economies, but rejects the adoption of other measures which he believes are " sacrifices beyond a prudent limit" imposed on certain persons and on the creditors of the State. Senor Ardanaz imposed on all the public employes and pensioners a tax of 20 per cent. instead of 5 per cent. as hitherto, and Senor Figuerola has decided at once upon his own responsibility that it shall be only 10 per cent. Regarding the pub lic debt, Senor Ardanaz proposed a tax of 20 per cent. on the coupons, both internal and external. Senor Figuerola, rejecting this, determines that the internal debt be subjected to a 5 per cent, tax as hitherto, leaving the foreign debt untaxed in any form whatever, which reductions, together with others, will bring the deficit for 1870 down to £3,600,000. Finally, after other measures, &c., he says:-" Supposing no further reductions in the expenses should be made, or increase of revenues be obtained, which is very improbable, it must be considered that by next year the first series of the hypothecated 'Treasury Bonds, with interest, &e., and likewise a 20 th part of the Treasury B on d s , will be cancelled, which will reduce the expenses by £1,170,222, and therefore the deficit in 1871 will be £2,430,000." Referring to fresh reforms in contemplation, he adds that it is the duty of the State to consider the payment of the interest on the debt as the most sacred engagement, and that in order to secure the punctual payment of the four next coupons (perhaps five) of the home and foreign debt, and leave the mind of the Minister free to direct his special attention to other matters of im portance, he thinks the Cortes ought to vote the law by which he proposes to set aside for the purpose certain properties and revenues, of which mention has already been made. Du BARRY'S Delicious Health restoring Revaleuta rabies Food, which contains three times the nourishment . of : , he est meat, saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the more enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dys pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhcca, haemorrhoid s, complaints, flatulency, nervousness, . biliousness, fevers, sort throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neural g i a irritability, sleeplessness, acidity , palpitation, heartbur n, head ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and si c k ness sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis , incipient consumption, , scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, itc. We quote a few out of rB,OOO cures —The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food, Cure No. 58,413. Rome, July 21, 180. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoni ng a ll ot h er remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revak uta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful a t every mea l . I t h as produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the Gazette du Midi, July2s. Cur e No. 0,832: "Of Fifty y.ar indescribable agony from dyspepsia, n e rv ousness, a,sthins cough, constipation, flatul ency, spasms, sickness sickness at the stomach and vomiting. Maria Jolly. Wortham, 'Ling, near Diss. Nor folk Cure ho. 47,1• A : Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Naziug 'Vicarage Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme nervousness, indigestion gatherings, low spirits. and nervous f anc i es . Important Caution —Beware of the many unsa vour y an d more than sloppy is unite lions to which, witho u t aut h or it y, B a r o n Liebig's name moot audaciously attached In tins, at Is lid; 11b 2s 9cl,_• 2 lb 4s 6d; s lb !Is; 12 lb 225. 24 lbs 4' s.—Also iu BARRY'S BDNALENTA. RABICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for It cups at 2s, for 24 , cups at 3s 6d, for ‘8 c u p s a t 6 s , for 2,8 cups at 30s, for :,76 cups at —being about one penny per cup. The 30 s and ~ 5 s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.— BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Itegent-etreet, London; and Grocers and Chemists. STATE OF TRADE. BELFAST, Jan, 25.—Flax.—Sapplies in the vari ous markets about similar to those offered during the week preceding. Demand continues again fair at unaltered rates. Yarns.—Business accomplished was considerably less than that transacted last week, still the demand was of a fair character for all classes of yarns. Home trade transactions were only to supply pressing wants. Transactions on Scotch and Continental account were to a fair ex tent. English orders were neither numerous nor extensive. Stocks show slight reduction. Prices well maintained. Hand loom Linens, brown.-- Under this head very little of importance to an nounce. Good makes of cloth for dyeing a nd hollands were in fair request at unaltered figures. Inferior makes and heavy linens were dull of sale. No change in prices. Light linens for bleaching were not so actively sought for as during the past week. Powerloom.—A fair but not active demand exists for heavy linens and light linens for bleach ing. Very little doing in cloth suitable for the foreign clothing trade, or cambric handkerchief A steady demand exists for roughs. Cloth for dyeing and hollands, and prime makes of drills. Stocks small, no change iu prices. Linen handker chiefs and damasks are dull of sale. Bleached a nd Finished Linens.—Little alteration in this depart ment. Steady business still being accomplished on home account ; still purchases are made cau tiously. NorriNGHAm, 26th.—The cotton lace trade is in a satisfactory condition. Orders for plain nets aro now in course of completion for the Continent, manufacturers in this branch being well engaged. fhtre is about an average amount of business doing in curtains ; and there is still a fair inquiry for tatting edgings. Lace yarns hold firm at fully late rates. In the silk branch there has been au improvement in the demand for plain Mechlins• There is also a rather better inquiry for laces. The raw material is firm, and prices have advanced. in the hosiery trade there is a fair amount of business doing for shipping. Ihe home branch is without material change. Hosiery yarns maintain their value. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS. —Five thousand consumptive patients resort to Minnesota every year.—An American paper says —" The present winter, like the last one, has thus far belied all the cold weather prophecies of goose-bone, beaver, muskrat, bird-flight, and other examiners. The frigid predictions that circulated 60 freely a month ago aro seen no more.—The wages paid on Mississippi River steamboats average: Captains, $175 per month; pilots, $2OO to $250 ; first engineers, $llO ; deck hands, $3O to s6o.—Christmas must have been a lively day in Cincinnati. Here are some of the head lines of the Enquirer :--'‘ The Crimes of Christmas"---" The bully's blade the sceptre of the street "—" Ruffianism rampant —" A knife buried to the hilt in a drunken man's skull"-- - " A young man stabs his best friend"—" A Christmas reveller shoots a negro"—" A rough breaks a man's leg with a kick"—" A chairmaker cuts his throat. A New York dentist is charged with stealing a lady's ear ring, valuod at a hundred dollars, while he was fixing her teeth.— Cable messages between the United States and Havana will hereafter be sent for five dollars in gold for ten words, from offices east of the Mississippi, and $7 and 50 cents, gold, from offices west of the Mississippi.- The Aerial Steam Navigation Company of San Francisco held a meeting, in Dec., and decided to build a new and larger "Avitor " for practical work, to cost $37,000. $5,615 has been subscribed. The corporators are satis fied with the performances of the last model, which was accidentally burnt while on exhibition.— The steamer China sailed from San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 1, for Hong Kong and Yokohama. She carried $693,000 in treasure, of which $615,000 was f or H ong K ong. $lO,OOO for Shanghai, and $38,000 for Yokohania.- e -ln Vicksburg the policemen wear red uniforms.—The Central Pacific Railroad Company have built an hospital, costing $70,00 0 , at Sacramento. The total city debt of Boston is $23,433,939, an increase of $5,000,000 since last year.-- it vein of bituminous coal, 30ft. thick, and free from sulphur, has been discovered 28 miles from Chico, California, and I miles from the California and Oregon Railroad. This is the first discovery of bituminous coal in Northern Cali fernia.—An Omaha despatch says that the Mormon schism is increasing rapidly. There are over 2,000 apostates now in Utah, and they are about to have a daily newspaper. Utah intends to make a strenuous effort at this session of Congress to get admitted into the Union as a State,—The New York _Herald says that never before this year was the Hudson River open in January for navi gation from Albany to New York —An order for steel was recently sent by telegraph from Boston to Sheffield. Twenty-one days afterward the steel, which had to be manufactured, was landed in Boston.—The President of the Chicago Board of Education, in his annual report, re commends that the reading of the Bible be discontinued in the public schools of that city.— The auction sale of pews at Henry Ward Beecher's Plymouth Church took pace on Tuesday evening, January 4th, in Brooklyn. Tin' highest premium paid was $550, by W. 11. Sage, aLd tb° sale netted $57,543, as compared with $51,494 last year.-- 9'} 'o la te,t news tells us that Iyhe,it, is now Selling. i 3 llt , gUe River arid Urnpqint va..ey,, Oregon, fur .37 cents, and barley for 23 cents per bushel, and dull sales at that. In Omaha wheat is selling at 40 cents, corn and oats 35.-- - A Michigan husband agreed to leave his wife on payment of seven dollars. She mortgaged her cook stove and paid him.—Tho woman question ; Is he rich ?—Boston Ad rertiser.—The steamer Golden City sailed front San Fran cisco for Panama on Monday, Jan. 3, with $370,000 in trea,ure, of Nellie., $28,000 are for New York. $327,00 for England, and $15,000 for Panama..—The residence of ex-United States Senator D. K. Atchiuson, near Platts burg, Mobile, was burned on Monday, Jan. 3. All the furniture and a large library were consumed. The loss is about $20,000. In Waterloo, lowa, turkeys can b e b oug ht at ten cents a pound, chickens at eight cents, and prairie chickens at $2 50 a d ozen.— Th e l ay i ng of the cable be tween Salcomhe and Brest in connection with the French cable was successfully completed. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.—At the meeting of the Thursday,boar board of man agers, at t h e Bibl e House, New York, on Jan. 6, James Lenox, Esq., President, was in the chair. assisted by William Whitlock, jun., Norman White, Frederick S. Winston, James Suydam, and A. Walsh, Esquires' Vice-Presidents. The Rev, Dr. M‘Leod read th® 34th Psalm, and offered prayer. ta l in '; ed v o oßt n et ev e w .i npa lowa. Dxiliaries were recognized ; ono in Texas, 0 r . C m o umsTuNneil Orleans Communications tion s r were r e e n c e e r i a v l e d A f g r e o m nt of the South-Western Bible Society, returning thanks for i e n, ci Milne, s r iln t i h go - n W ti en e vfi s i u t d e ee r no n c, e w L o i o f t u ht i h si e a , a grant of $l,OOO, i n books to aid them in th e work gratifyingb;l Bible frinam rM.Andrew M. his fiel state ments field ; a f s r from n o the th e Rev. I. G. Bliss, Con s t an ti nop l e, g i ving an account of his work, snd especially in regard to Bulgaria, and the good effect of the Slavic and Bulgarian Testament which was electrotyped at the Bible House; from the Rev. H. B. Pratt, Barranquilla, N.G., saying in sub stance that he finds but little demand for the Scriptures in that region ; from the Rev. Dr. W. A. P. Martin, Peking, as to the best mode of prosecuting and ex tending the work in China; from Mr P. Hand of Pek ing as to the printing of the Scriptures there, and sending the fiscal account of the Mission. Grants of books were made to the American Tract Society; to the Gene ral Assembly's Committee on Freedmen ' • to the Pa triot's Orph an H ome at F lush i ng, Long Island; to the American Missionary Association, Arabic Bibles and Testaments ler Africa; to the Friends' Bible and Tract Distributing Committee ; to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Ojibwa Testaments; to 31r. John S. Pierson, Marine Agent for vessels sailing to vari ous foreign ports. The entire number of volumes granted is 7,744, besides others to the amount of $l,lOO, and in funds $2OO to the Missionary Society of the Metho dist Church for Bible work in Norway. The books granted were in an usual variety of languages, including Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, French, Ojibwa, and Arabic.—An interesting volume was exhibited to the board, being a copy in manuscript of the Gospel by St. Matthew in the language of the Kohlossian Indians in Al aska. It was written by the present primate of the Russo- Greek Church when, a young man, he was a missionary to that country. THOUSANDS OF PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S. —Portraitalbums, dispatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, bookslides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent bottles, cigar cases, card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in china, bronze gilt, and elegantly mounted for mantel shelf, drawing and library tables; bagatolleboards. indoor croquet and indoor games of all kinds; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services in every type. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new and fresh. Small articles carefully selected and sent post paid upon pre payment. Catalogues free. I ADVER TISEME N T. I—Hollow a y' s Oi n t men t an d Pills . — Bilious D i sorders,- In no organ of the human body does disease present itself so frequently, and in such varied forms, as in the liver, and in no affections is it more im portant to apply immediate and safe treatment. Hollo way's remedies happily place the means of cure within the reach of all. His Pills, aided by energetic friction with his Ointment upon the right side, and over the pit of the stomach, will soon relieve the troublesomeelyspeptic symptoms ; and, perseverance with these pr e p arat i ons , will ensure perfect recovery without any great restric tions in habit or diet. This treatment safely reduces the enlarged liver, often resulting frnm hot climates, or too great indulgence in the pleasures of the table. BIRTHS. ADAMS- On the 25th inst., at Berrylands, Surbiton-hill, the wife of Francis Adams, Esq., of a son. COURTNEY —On the 26th inst., at 10, Clyde-terrace, Stock well road, Mrs. G. 11. Courtney, of a son. MARNA G ES. SUMMERITOFP —I3ENAND—On the 25th inst., at St. George's, Hanover -square, CliarlesA Summerhoff, of Richmond, Surrey, to Ada Clara, youngest daughter of Richard B eu ,a,id, Esq., of Ebury-sreet, Eaton-square. TT:DOR—FRENCH— On the 25th inst., at Chester, Frederic S. S. Tudor, to Rosa, youngest daughter of Major E. F French, of Chester, late 82d Regt. DEA7'IIS. BuTLEil—On the 25th inst., Edward R. Butler, Esq., Crom well Hall, Finchley. SHEE —On the 25th inst., at 38, Grosvenor-place, Sir Geo. Shee, Bart., aged 86. SCOTT—On the 25th inst., Caroline, Dowager Lady Scott, widow of Sir David Scott, Bart. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SON Office, o. 112, Strand. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex..-- Thuroday, January 27, 1870. Tc Th s c P the then MU 14, R DVAIN old or ‘‘lo we • , MR f 14 -1 ST The fessioni weekly bined v establif. This nised t and it Lady CarOlir All • ton Gr Sub Treast il'. receive and r Puoils The manila A When nesse seta free I stre See 11 la 1✓ ApT other T L Th, Fire The T nnnn value retie leave thirty ~ F road. Ur this 1 Ti abt num. holpl Re stree FII: