The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-27 00:00:00

BP lEIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times remarks that the power of the existing Government is becoming rapidly limited to the exercise of the Royal prerogative, alluding to a report that this sacred fund is to be largely drawn upon, in extremis, for the creation of a dozen consolation peerages. No doubt, there is at least that number of fitting objects for public charity in its most splendid form. Considering the continual augmentation that House must receive from law, from diplomacy, and from the army, its original character as a representation of land and property should be well sustained. Upon general grounds, and were these ordi nary times, small objection could be made. But _every thing that gives a character to the existing circumstances tells pointedly and emphatically against a creation of Con servative peers by the moribund Cabinet. Some Govern ments, after long service and after a long-continued popularity, have fallen at last upon some temporary occa eional issue—some neglect, some shortcoming, some mishap—just as an old servant might forfeit his place without prejudice to his claim to some substantial reward. In that case two or three peerages have been taken in discharge of a just debt. But the merit of the expiring Government cannot be its length of service or the number and variety of its achievments. The House of Lords is Conservative enough to be troublesome to a Conservative as well as a Liberal Government. The Times forsees the effect a new creation would have on the question of the day, and thinks there would be nothing for the head of the new Government but to create Pe4 enough to turn the balance their way. It would not be right to charge on the Conservatives alone an irreverent handling of the august assemblage under question, and a lavish diffusion of its privileges. Both sides have offended in this way. But there is this excuse for the Liberal side — that in the majority of instances a Peerage, whatever the politics of theoriginal holder and his political friends,becoines an accession to the Conservative force of the House. The institution itself is one of Conservative tendencies, and in natural antagonism to popular movements. Without a single new Conservative creation between this and the end of the century, the House would be then found disposed to resist all change where resistance is possible. What the House wants is, not Conservatism, but such an amount of popular confidence as shall widen the scope of its own action, put more work into its hands, render it a more serviceable ally of the Lower Houle, and insure more respect for its decisions when they deserve it. The Post asks what amount of power and what prestige will the Conservatives carry with them across the floor of the House of Commons. Upon the solution of that ques tion the character of the future policy and coming legisla-• Lion of the country will be largely dependent. By the attitude which they assume as a party in the face of inevie table defeat, and by the course they take on their forcect resumption of the duties of an Opposition, the policy ot . ' the Government to be formed by Mr. Gladstone must be not inconsiderably determined. The Conserve.. Lives have been thoroughly and decidedly defeated, but they have not been humiliated. Numerically they are weaker than when they acceded to office, but morally, if they comprehend,their position, they are stronger. The army of Mr. Disraeli shews more instead of less confidence is the astute and versatile strategist who leads them, their organisation is admirable, and the general election, if it has diminished somewhat their numbers, has added to their ranks not a few adherents whose names and position will make them count as court cards in the game. The Post asks both leaders and their following " What will he do with it ?" There is another problem with regard to which speculation cannot much assist us, and which events aloneb can satisfactorily solve. Is the majority a majority merely against Mr. Disraeli, as a challenger, or is it a majority determined not only to defeat the Conservative leader, but, in addition, completely organised to give power and place to Mr. Gladstone, and to maintain him, come who may against him, as leader of the nation? The Daily News thinks Mr. Gladstone's address to the electors of Greenwich, accepting the seat they so spon taneously gave him, is worthy of himself and of them. It is something for even the leader of a great party to be returned by a large and independent constituency without taking any part whatever in the election, and Mr. Glad stone may well feel that a seat thus given him is indeed a most honourable one. Mr. Gladstone expresses his belief that such generous and unasked confidence is unparalleled. Parliamentary leaders have before now sought the suffrages of other constituencies after their defeat at home, but this is the first instance, probably, in which a large constituency has elected its representative without any sanction from him, and while he was still fighting his battle elsewhere. Mr. Gladstone may well set the " generous, unasked, and unparalleled kindness " which has given him this seat against the failure of his too chivalrous effort to pluck a seat frcm the very grasp of the Conservative Mentor. A seat in Parliament so offered and so accepted is honour able both to the constituency and to the representative. Mr. Gladstone cannot be said to fall back on Greenwich. lie has not gone there as a defeated candidate to ask for a seat. lie was already the spontaneously elected member for that constituency before the nomination in South-West Lancashire, and was elected without any intimation from himself that he would accept the honour. The electors of Greenwich have well deserved the distinction which Mr. Gladstone's acceptance of the seat will confer upon them. They have dune the Liberal party a servi2C. They have taken all trace of humiliation from Mr. Glad stone's defeat by conferring on him beforehand that rarest )f honours—an unsought seat. Mr. Gladstone might probably have preferred to sit for his native division of his native county ; but if that satisfaction has been denied him, he at least enjoys the honour of a seat for which he made no effort, and to which he was elected in his absence, and without a sign from himself ; and that is an honour which will be unique in Parliament. The Summary says: It is not for us to interfere in so delicate a matter, but we may be permitted to observe that the difficulties of the Liberal party are as great with Mr. Gladstone as a leader, as without him as a leader. If he is Prime Minister, he will have to elect between the two sections of his followers ; if he is not, there can be little doubt that he will become rapidly still more demo cratic in his action. In either case, Conservatives will probably be re-called very _shortly to power. Mean while it is preposterous that while the Pall Mall Gazette distrusts him for not being a man of the world, an enthu siastic supporter in the Daily News actually calls on us to fall down and worship Mr. Gladstone as the only religious statesman of the day, who is the elect of the people on that very ground. Injudicious as Mr. Gladstone is, odd as he has shewn himself to be, as in other ways, so, by translating some book during the exciting hours of the polling in South-West Lancashire, he must himself wish that so injudicious though well-meaning a friend could be muzzled. The Telegraph trusts that the Queen will lend the lustre of her station and personal assistance to the ceremony of the opening of Parliament. Even as a stately pageant of our political life the opening of such a house at such an epoch deserves to be rendered complete. The empty throne must seem more unsatisfactory than ever when nothing but its occupancy is wanted to restore the half-forgotten splendourj3 of that which is still the most august and ancient assemblage of lawgivers in the civilised world. Ceremony may be over. valued ; but while a just and due solemnity is confirmed by traditional customs, and while the stateliness of monarchy is found useful to deepen the reverence of popular power, the grandest function of the sovereign ought surely to have all the majesty and effect which it can borrow from the visible presence of Royalty. The Queen's appearance, uttering such words as should alone be in her mouth, will seasonably reassure the country against sinister forebodings ; and the Telegraph is equally ready to affirm that it will imply a like abstinence from personal feeling as regards the statesmen who will be charged with the adminis trative and political duties of the day. On all accounts, then, the presence of her Majesty is most desirable, since it would not only signalise the beginning of a new parliamentary era, but would place before the newly-constituted assembly, at the very beginning of its life, the august figure of the hereditary sovereign in that impartial and inviolate position which she holds between all rivalries of policies and parties. The Times warns statesmen not to rely too much on tne weak elements of our parliamentary system. If anything be certain in English politics, it is that the redistribution of seats will be carried much further, and that members n will within a few years be just l y apportioned to population. For good or for evil, the number of small boroughs will be diminished, and the Marylebones and Lambeths will be divided and more fully represented. Though nothing can be pleasanter than a quiet little constituency, which gives no trouble, and regards its member with almost superstitious veneration when he makes his rare appearance, yet such constituencies must for the most part pass away, while the few that remain will be fought for with desperate euergy and lavish purse by the ambitious rich, by the local magnate, or his rival, the merchant from town. Statesmen and men of political genius generally must, therefore, make up their minds to woo and win large popular constituencies. • The Post says the Reform Leaguers have been made tools of by their selfish' superiors in Liberal society. They were never intended by the higher Radicals to sit in Parliament. There is a fiiheral scoff at their pretensions; there are a thousand Liberal moel:eries over their universal failure. And_ one, no doubt, has been cleverly "'hayed off against another. The evidently approaching dissolution of the Adelphi-terrace Reform League, through deficiency of funds ant the withdrawal of popular sympathy, renders tins perhaps the - less regrettable, but it will entail the - publiclife of Mr. Edmond Beales, M.A. lle does for the Tower Hamlets ; he gill not 1,0 much longer the head of an asso ciation professes to govern the world, even as far as Spain. But we have our comfort. Such spirits do not rest. When they have settled their charges of mutual peculation, when they have arbitrated between the atheism of Mr. Bradlaugh and the public claims of Mr. Beales, when they have discovered who, among them. selves, connived and confederated against the rest, when the proillem of the " mysterious funds" has been solved, and when it is explained why hardly one worh;ii, , :-, 7 ;iss candidate went to the poll, or paid the charges, thou we may learn that a new and ev. , destiny is r'served for the dispersing p n t i :. • _ Adelphi-terrace. Until then, rate, and go,:. Constituency. ABINGDON ANDOVER AYLESBURY ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE AND LESEA BRECON SHIRE BARNSTAPLE BRIDGNORTH BANBURY BATH BEDFORD BERwicic BEVERLEY BEWDLEY BIRKENHEAD BIRMINGILtH BLACKBURN BODMIN BOLTON' BOSTON BRADFORD BRIDGWATER. BRIGHTON BRISTOL BUTK/NGIIA.3I BURN LEY BURY BURY ST. EDMUNDS • • BEDFORDSHIRE BRIDPORT BEAU MARIS BRECO BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BERKSHIRE CUMBERLAND, EAST .. CUMBERLAND, WEST .. CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGESHIRE .... CANTERBUEY CARDIFF CARLISLE C.kRMARTIIEN CARMARTHENSHIRE CARNARVON CA RNARVONSIIIRE CIIESHIRE, MID CHATHAM CHELTENHAM CIIESTER CHICHESTER CHIPPENIIAH CIRENCESTER CLITHEROE COVENTRY CALNE CAMBRIDOE UNIVERS CARDIGAN CARDIGANSHIRE, CHELSEA CIIRISTCIII.7IICII COCKERMOUTH COLCHESTER ... CRICTCLADE . CORNWALL, EAST .. CORNWALL, WEST .... CHESHIRE, EAST CHESHIRE, WEST DENBIGH . DEVOI, PORT DARLINGTON... DERBY DEVIZES .. DEWSBURY DOVER .... DROITWICIT 1)131;11AM • DURHA3I, NORTII DURHAM. SOUTH DoRCHF.STEE DUDLEY DERBYSHIRE, SOUTH DERBYSHIRE, EAST ... DEVON, NORTH DEVON, EAST Do RSETSIIIRE EVFSHANL Ex,TErt. ESHEX, Sotxx ESSEX, WEST ESSEX, NORTH-EAST E vE t'INSEUItY FIZOME FLINT FALMOUTH FLINTSIIIRE GLA3.IOItOA.NSLIIRE GATESHEAD GLOUCESTER GRAVESEND GREAT GRIMSBY OREENWICII GUILDFORD GB Tild3l GLOUCESTER, EAST GLOUCESTER, WEST . HANTS, SOUTH HERTFORDSHIRE HACKNEY HALIFAX HASTINGS HELSTON H EItTFORD HEREFORD HEREFORDSHIRE HULL Fr YTHE HANTS, NORTII HAnwicH HUNTINGDON HARTLEPOOL HA.VERFORDW: ST HORSHAM HUNTIKGDONSHIRE HCDDER , FIELD IPSWICH ISLE OF WIGHT KENT, WEST KENT, MID KENT, EAST KING'S LA: r; N KIDDERMINSTER . XNAILESBOROUCIH KENDAL LAMBETH LEEDS . LEICESTER LEICESTER, NORTH ... LEICESTER, SATTR LANCASHIRE, S.W. . LANCASHIRE, 5.E..... LEOMINSTER LUDLOW LONDON CITY LONDON UNIVERSITY. LYMINOTON ........... LAUNCESTON ......... LINCOLN ............... LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH LINCOLN, MID LINCOLN, SOUTH .... LI/HUARD Limas LICHFIELD LivEßrooL LANCASHIRE, NORTH LANCA.SIIIRE, N.E. .... MONTGOMERYssum MALbow MARLow MIDHIJEST MACCLESFIELD MAIDSTONE MALMESBI3 RY MANCHESTER MA RY LEBONS MERTHYR TYDVIL MONMOUTH MALTON MARLBOROUGH M t MIDDLESBOROUGH MONTGOAIERY MORPETH MONMOUTHSHIRE MIDDLESEX NORFOLK, SOUTH . NLWARIC NEWCASTLE-lIPON - TY NE I NEWCASTLE-UNDR-LYM• NORTHALLERTON NORTHAMPTON . NoRwICIf NOTTINGHAM .. NEWPORT. I. OF WIGHT] NORFOLK, NORTH NORFOLK, WEST NORTHAMPTON, NORTH NORTHAMPTON, SOUTH NOTTS, NORTH Members. Mr Lindsay Mr Fortescue Mr N Rothschild Mr Smith * Mr Mellor * Mr Davies Hon G C Morgan Mr T Cave * Captain Williams Mr Whitmore Mr Samuelson Mr Tite * Mr Dalrymple Mr Whitbread * Mr J Howard * Lord Bury * Mr J Stapleton Sir H. Edwards * Captain Kennard * Sir R Glass Mr John Laird Mr John Bright Mr Dixon * Mr P H Muntz Mr W H Horuby Mr J Feilden Hon F L Gower Lieut-Colonel Gray * Mr J Hick Mr Malcolm * Mr T Collins Mr W E Forster * Mr Ripley Mr A W Kinglake Mr Vanderbyl Mr James White Professor Fawcett Mr H Berkeley * Mr S Morley Sir Harry Verney * Mr R Shaw Mr Philips Mr Hardcastle Mr Greene Mr F C H Russell Colonel Gilpin Mr T A Mitchell Hon W 0 Stanley Mr Howel Gwyn Right Hon B Disraeli Mr Du Pre * Mr Lambert Mr Benyon Colomel Loyd Lindsay * Mr John Walter Hon C Howard t Mr W N Hodgson Captain Lowther Hon P Wyndham * Colonel Torrens * Mr Fowler Lord George Manners Lord Royston IJ Right Hon H Brand Mr Butler Johnstone * Captain Brinckman Colonel Stuart Mr E Potter • * Sir Wilfrid Lawson * Colonel Stepney :1* Mr Sartoris I * Mr John Jones Mr W B Hugnes :1* Captain Parry Mr G C Legh Hon W Egerton Mr Otway :j* Mr H B Samuelson j Earl Grosvenor * Mr Raikes Lord H G Lennox .j Mr Goldney .1 Hon A Bathurst Mr R Assheton • I Mr Eaton • * Mr Staveley Hill .1* Lord E Fitzmaurice Right Hon S Walpole • Mr Beresford Hope ~t Sir Thomas Lloyd j* Mr Richards :* Mr C W Dilke i* Sir Henry Hoare * Mr E Burke * Mr J Fletcher Mr Rebow • j* Dr Brewer Sir 1) Gooch i* Hon F Cadogan * Sir John Trelawny • • 1 * Mr B Wiilyaras Mr St Aubyn • • * Mr P Vivian * Mr E C Egerton • * Mr W Legh • I Mr Tollemache Sir Philip Egerton • * Mr Williams Constituency. NOTTS, SOUTH NORTHUMBERLAND, N. NORTHUMBERLAND, S OXFORD UNIVERSITY OXFORDSHIRE OLDHAM OXFORD IC PEMBROKE gn• PEMBROKESHIRE .1 PETERBOROUGH 1 1 1 I 1 PETERSFIELD PLymouTli... 1 I PONTEFRACT PORTSMOUTH PRESTON POOLE READING RICHMOND RIPON ROCHDALE nyE RETFORD, EAST 1 I RADNOR ... ROCHESTER 1 J. 1 1 1 I RADNORSHIRE 1 RUTLAND SUFFOLK, WEST SALISBURY 1 I SUSSEX, WEST 1 I I SOMERSET, WEST SOMERSET, EAST SOUTHAMPTON STROUD 1 I , 1 01TRREY, EAST 1 I SALFORD SANDWICH . SCARBOROUGH 1 1 1 1 1 SHEFFIELD SIIREWSBt7RY SOUTH SHIELDS SOUTHWARK 1 1 I STAFFORD 1 I STOCKPORT 1 1 STOCKTON SUNDERLAND 1 1 i 1, I 1 1 SHAFTESBURY SHOREHAM 1 STALEYBRIDGE 1 SURREY, MID SUSSEX, EAST 1 I I STAFFORDSHIRE, EAST 1 I STAFFORDSHIRE, WEST, 1 I STAFFORDSHIRE,NORTIII STAMFORD SHROPSHIRE, NORTH , SHROPSHIRE, SOUTH 1 1 ST. IVES STOKE-UPON-TRENT SWANSEA TAMWORTH I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 TAUNTON TEWKESBURY TOWER HAMLETS 1 1 I TRURO 1 TYNE - MOUTH .. 1 T visTocK TIVERTON T lIIItSK WAKEFIELD WESTMORELAND 1 I WALLINGFORD WARE HA 31 . . . 1 WARRINGTON 1 WARWICK .. . WEDNESBURY WESTBURY WESTMINSTER Mr M Chambers ,* Mr Lewis j* Mr Backhouse I Mr M T Bass * Mr Plimsoll Sir T Bateson * Serjeant Simon Major Dickson * Mr Jessel, Q. C. Sir John Pakington Mr Henderson j* Mr Davison ! Sir H Williamson * Mr :Elliott Mr Pease * Mr Beaumont I Colonel Sturt Mr H B Sheridan * Sir T Gresley * Mr R Smith * Hon H Strutt * Hon Captain Egerton Mr T D Acland Sir Stafford Northcote I Sir L "Palk t Lord Courtenay Hon Mr Portman Mr Floyer Mr Sturt Col Bourne Mr Coleridge 1. Mr Bowring * Mr W Baker * Mr A Johnstone I Lord Eustace Cecil , I Mr S Ibbetson , i* Mr Round * Colonel Brice Lord Barrington I Mr M'C Tor ens Alderman Lusk ; t 11Ir T. Hughes Sir John Hamner J* lilr Fow;er * Mr llastwick Lord R Grosvenor Colonel Talbot Mr H V.vian i Right lion Sir W Hutt Mr Price Mr Monk ~ * sir C Wingfield I t Captain Temlioc I Mr Alderman Salomons If Rt Hon W E Gladstone I Mr Onslow I* Captain Cholmeley * Hon F Tollemache Sir M Beach Mr Holford Colonel Kingscote ! 1 1 WEYMOUTH 1 1 1I 1 I 1 WHITBY WHITEHAVEN WIGAN WINCHESTER .... W!NDSOR 1 WOODSTOCK WORCESTER 1 WORCESTER, EAST . WORCESTER, WEST .. WYCOMBE .. • 1 WALSALL ... 1 I WENLOCK * Mr Marling f Right4Hon W Cowper. t Lord H Scott Hon H Cowper Mr A Smith * Mr H Brand * Mr C Reed * Mr Holms Mr Stansfeld Colonel Akroyd * Mr T Brassey * Mr F North * Mr Young Mr R Dimsdale Mr Clive * Mr Wyllie Mr Biddulph Mr Bailey * Sir H Croft Mr James Clay Mr Norwood Baron N de Rothschild Mr W B Beach Mr Sclater-Booth Major Jervis Mr T Baring * Mr Jackson * Colonel Edwardes Mr Hurst 'double * Major Aldridge return Lord R Montagu Mr E Fellowes Mr E A Leathern Mr H E Adair * Mr West. Q.C. Sir J Simeon * Mr Mills * Mr Talbot Lord Holmesdale Mr Hart Dyke Mr L Pemberton * Hon G Milles Lord Stanley * Hon R Bourke * Mr Lea * Mr Illingworth * Mr Whitwell * Alderman J Lawrence * Mr W M'Arthur Mr Baines * Alderman Carter * Mr Wheelhouse Mr Taylor Mr Harris Lord J Manners * Mr Frewen Lord Curzon * Mr Pell * Mr Cross Mr °Turner Hon A F Egerton * Mr S Henry Mr Arkwright Colonel Clive Mr Goschen Mr Crawford Mr Lawrence * Mr Bell j lit Hon Robert Lowe Lord G Lennox Mr Henry Lopes Mr C Seely * Mr! Palmer Sir M J Chohneley * Mr R Winn * Mr Arncoats * Mr H Chaplin Mr Welby * Mr Tumor Sir Arthur Buller Lord Pelham Colonel Dyott Mr Graves * Lord Sandon * Mr Rathbone Colonel Wilson-Patten f Hon F Stanley * Mr Holt * Mr Starkie Mr C W Wynn * Mr Bentall * Mr Wetherhed Mr Mitford * Mr C Brocklehurst * Mr Chadwick Mr Lee Mr Whatman * Mr Powell Mr Bazley Mr Jacob Bright Mr Birley Mr H Lewis Mr T Chambers Mr Richard Mr Fothergill Sir J Ramsden Hon C Fitzwiiliam • Lord E Bruce Mr D Williams Mr Bolckow Hon C H Tracy Sir G Grey Mr C Morgan Colonel Somerset Viscount Enfield Lord G Hamilton Mr E Howes Mr C S Read Mr G Hodgkinson Mr E Denison Mr Headlam Mr Cowen Mr Allen Mr Buckley Mr Hutton Lord Henley Mr C Gilpin FM* W Russell S.r H Stracey Sir Clifton ~ Mr Wright Mr Martin Sir E Lacon Hon F Walpole Sir W Bagge Hon T De Grey Mr Ward Hunt Mr S Stopford Major Cartwright Sir Rainald KnightleY Right Hon J Denison Mr F C Smith 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 • 1 1 WILTON WILTS, SOUTH 1 WOLVERHAMPTON WA P.WICKS EIIRE,NORTH' WARWICKSHIRE, SOUTH' WILTS, NORTH YORK YORK, N.W. RIDING... YORK, S.W. RIDING YORKSHIRE, N. RIDINGi 1 1 1 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1868 THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH AND 41R. GLADSTONE. The Primate of Ireland has written a letter to Mr. Glad stone upon the subject of the Irish Church. He states that on his return from holding his triennial visitations his at teLtion was attracted to a reference made to him in the Wigan speech. For several reasons he did not answer it. Mr. Gladstone having again referred to him at Preston, he feels called upon to address Lim on the subject. Mr. Gladstone, he says, has evidently mistaken the spirit and intention of his (the Archbishop's) speech. He maintains that the propositions brought forward in it are just and reasonable, and free from any tendency to excite religious animosity. Ho argues that the overthrow of the Establishment would cause an extensive emigration. His ebservatious had reference not to the inhabitants of towns or thickly populated Protestant districts, but to those few and far between. Ho quotes the United States and Canada to prove the inefficiency of the voluntary system. He sup poses that Mr. Gladstone, far removed from communi cation with the Irish Protestants, is unacquainted with their apprehensions and plans for the future, but the clergy who dwell among them aro but too well aware of the loosening of their attachment to their father land, and of their desire to remain in it, which is going on in the scattered hamlets where Protestants are waiting to know what is to be their fate as regards the continuance among them of the kind and considerate friend whom they found in their pastor, and who, in the absence of a resident gen try, has been their sole adviser, protector, and comforter. These Protestants must of necessity yield to the attractions of the majority around them as they did 150 years ago. The Archbishop, therefore, thinks he was fully justified in saying that the measure of disestablishment proposed would put before them the alternative of apostacy or emigration. The Archbishop again quotes a sentence of his speech— "lt is very generally stated that if the Roman Catho lics are not satisfied with this measure, then Ireland must be conquered over again. Can it be that there is no remedy for poor Ireland but the sword and the gibbet ? Would it not be better to leave the Bible still open and the sword undrawn ?" lie now adds—" I trust that you will see that this is very different, indeed, from the sentiment you attributed to me. I cannot entertain a hope that yours will be a final or a healing measure. I believe, on the contrary, that it will be received as a grievous and uncalled for wrong by one party, while it will neither satisfy nor conciliate the other, but will give rise to fresh demands end renewed agitation, to the results of which I cannot look forward without the liveliest appre hension." As for the tale of the Orange flag in the church of Kilderton, the Rev. Mr. Green refused to perform divine service because it was placed upon the church, and thus some old and infirm people from a distance were deprived of the sacranieut. In spite of the Archbishop's advice to the contrary he still persists in his course, and proceedings would have been taken against him bad he not admitted his error. No flag ever covered the holy table or hung over it. Members. Mr Henley Colonel North Mr Platt Mr Price Mr W Martin.. Mr Serjeant Kinglake lion A Walsh Hon G J Noel Mr Finch Major W Parker Lord A Hervey Mr Hamilton * Dr Lush Colonel Barttelot Hon H Wyndham Mr Gore Langton * Mr A A Hood * Major Allen I * Mr Bright Mr Gurney 1 * Mr Hoare Mr Winterbotham MrDickenson Mr Locke King Mr C Buxton * Mr Cawley * Mr Charley Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen * Mr H Brassey Sir J V Johnstone Mr J D Dent Mr Hadfield Mr Mundella Mr Clement I* Mr Figging Mr Stevenson Mr Layard Mr Locke Captain Meller * Mr Pochin Mr J B Smith * Mr Tipping * Mr J Dodds Mr Caudlish * Mr Gourley Mr G C Glyn Right Hon S Cave Sir Percy Burrell * Mr Sidebotham * Mr W Peek * Hon W Brodrick Mr Dodson * Mr Scott t Mr A Bass * Mr M'Clean * Mr Ingram * Mr Child Mr Adderley Sir E M Buller Sir J Hay Mr Ormsby Gore Lord Newport Gen P Herbert * Col Corbett * Mr Magniac Mr Melly * Colonel Roden Mr Dillwyn Sir R Peel * Sir H Bulwer Mr Barclay * Serjeant Cox * Mr Price Mr Ayrton t Mr Samuda Mr 'Williams Hon. Captain Vivian * Mr E T Smith Mr A Russell Hon G Denman. , - * Mr Amory Sir W P Gallwey * Mr Beaumont Earl of Bective Hon G H Lowther * Mr S Vickers Mr J Calcraft Mr Rylands Mr A W Peel * Mr Greaves Mr Brogden * Mr Phipps Captain Grosvenor Mr AV H Smith Mr H Edwards Mr Hambro Mr W H Gladstone .. Mr L'entinck Mr Wood Mr Lancaster Mr Bonham Carter Mr Simonds Mr R Eykyu Mr Barnett Mr Sherriff Mr Laslett Hon G C Lyttelton Mr Amphlett Mr Knight Mr Dowdeswell Hon. W H Carington Mr C•Forster General Forester Mr Brown Mr Antrobus Lord H Thynne Mr T Grove Mr Villiers Mr Weguelin Mr N wdegate Mr B Davenport * Mr H C Wise Mr John Hardy Lord C Bruce * Sir G Jenkinson Mr Lowther * Mr Brown Westhead Sir F Crossley Lord F C Cavendish Viscount Milton Mr Beaumont Mr Milbank Colonel 0 Duncombe SCOTLAI\ D. ABERDEENSHIRE, lAST Mr Fordyce ABERDEENSHIRE, WEST* Mr M'Ccrnbie AYR Bunons I Mr Crawfurd AYRSHIRE, NORTH ....,* Mr Finvie ARGYLESHIRE 1 Marquis of Lorne . AYRSHIRE, SOUTH ~., i * Sir D Wedderburn ABERDEEN t Colonel Sykes L'oaDF.n DISTRICT !f Mr Trevelyan LurEsifinE l. Mr ,Dalrymple .... BANFF Mr R Duff BERWICKSHIRE ... CLACKMANNAN Mr D Robertson Mr Adam CAITHNESS. Mr Traill DUMFRIESSHIRE DUMBARTONSH/RE DUNDEE * Sir S Waterlow Mr Orr-Ewing Sir J Ogilvy * Mr Armistead Mr Jardine' Mr M'Laren * Mr Miller * Sir G Maitland Mr Grant Duff * Mr Grant Hon C Carnegie.. Sir R Anstruther Mr Merry Mr Dalglish Mr W Graham * Mr Anderson * Mr Grieve Sir H Davie Lord Elcho * Mr Mackintosh * Mr Cameron Mr Nichol Mr W H Maxwell Mr E P Bouverie Mr. S. Aytoun * Major Hamilton Sir E Colebrooke Mr M'Lagan * Mr Macfle r Kinnaird Mr Crum-Ewing * Mr Parker Sir G Montgomery Sir W Scott * Mr Matheson Mr Spiers * Mr Campbell Admiral Erskine Lord R S Gower Mr Ellice Mr Baxter Mr Young * Lord Garlies DUMFRIES EDINBURGH EDINBURGHSHIRE, Er.elN lleitußs ELGIN AND NAIRN FoRFARSIIIRE FIFESUIRR FALKIRK BURGHS GLASGOW GREENOCK lIADDINGTON BURGHS, HADDINGTONSHIRE INVERNESS INVERNESS-SIIIRE KINCARDINESHIRE KIRKCUDIIRIOIIT KILMARNOCK BURGHS, KIRKCALDY LANARKSHIRE, SOUTH LANARKSHIRE, NORTH LINLITIIGOWSHIRE LEITH BURGHS PERTH PAISLEY . PERTHSHIRE PEEBLES AND SELKIRK ROXBURGHSHIRE Ross AND CROMARTY RENFREWSHIRE -- _ STIRLING BURGHS STIRLINGSHIRE SIITIIERLANDSRIRE ST. ANDREWS 8u11, G ., MONTROSE WIGTOWN BURGHS WIGTOWNSIIIRE - ANTRIM COUNTY ... ARMAGH COUNTY . ARMAGH ATHLONE BANDON BELFAST CLARE COUNTY CARRICKFERGUS CASHEL CARLOW CORK CLONMEL COLERAINE CAVAN COUNTY CARLOW COUNTY DONEGAL CO UNTY Do WNSIIIRE DOWIMATRICK DUNGANNON' DUBLIN DUBLIN UNIVERSITY DUBLIN COUNTY DUNDALK DUNGARVAN DROGHEDA ENNISKILLEN ENNis FERMANAGH COUNTY GALWAY COUNTY ... GALWAY KERRY COUNTY KILKENNY KILKENNY COUNTY KINSALE KILDARE KING'S CoUNTY ...... LEITRIM COUNTY .. LONDONDERRY COUNTY LONDONDERRY LIMERICK CITY LIMERICK COUNTY . LONGFORD COUNTY LOUTH COUNTY LISBURN MAYO COUNTY MONAGHAN' COUNTY MALLOW NEW Ross NEWRY PoRTARLINUTON QUEENS COUNTY ROSCOMMON COUNTY SLIGO TRALEE TIPPERARY COUNTY TYRONE COUNTY ... WEXFORD WATERFORD COUNTY WATERFORD CITY. WESTMEATH . WEXFORD COUNTY Wiciu.ow YOUGHAL . Mr Barrow Mr Hildyard * Earl Percy * Mr Ridley Mr Beaumont Hon H Liddell Rt Hon G Hardy Rt tionJ Mowbray '* Mr Cartwright Mr ilibbert Mr Cardwell * Mr V Harcourt * Mr Meyrick f Mr Scourfield Mr Whalley * Mr Wells Mr Nicholson Sir R P Collier Mr Morrison Mr Childers Major Waterhouse Mr Stone * Sir J Elphinstone Sir T Hesketh * Mr Hermon * Mr Arthur Guest Sir F Goldsmid Mr Shaw Lefevre Sir Roundel] Palmer Lord John Hay Mr T B Potter * Mr Stewart Hardy Mr Foijambe Lord Galway IRELAND. Rear-Adml. Seymour Mr O'Neill Sir J M Stronge Mr Verner Mr John Vance * Sir J Ennis r a Mr Shaw * Mr Johnston * Mr M'Clure Sir Colman O'Loghlen Colonel Vandeleur * Mr Dalway Mr O'Beirne * Captain Fagan Mr Murphy Mr Maguire Mr Bagwell Sir 11 H Bruce Colonel Annesley Mr E Sanderson Mr Bruen t Mr Kavanagh Lord Hamilton Mr Conolly Lord H Trevor Lieut.-Colonel Forde Mr Keowne Major Knox Mr Pim Sir A Guinness Mr Lefroy * Mr Ball Colonel Taylor Mr Hamilton * Mr Callan * Mr Matthews Mr Whitworth * Viscount Crichton Captain Stacpoole Lieut.-Colonel Cole Captain Archdall Mr Gregory Viscount Burke Sir It Blennerhassett * Lord St. Lawrence Lord Castlerosse Mr H A Herbert Sir John Gray Mr G L Bryan Mr Agar Ellis Sir G Colthurst Mr Cogan Lord 0 Fitzgerald Sir P O'Brien * Mr Sherlock . Mr Gore Dr Brady Mr Peel Dawson Sir F Heygate * Mr Dowse Major Gavin Mr. F W Russell .. • Mr Monsell Mr Synan Mr O'Reilly Col. Greville-Nugent Mr C Fortescue Mr Deese Mr Verner * Mr Moore Lord Bingham Colonel Leslie * Mr Shirley Serjeant Sullivan 1* Mr M'Mahon * Mr Kirk * Captain Darner Mr Fitzpatrick * Mr Dighy Colonel French The O'Conor Don I'Major L E Knox The O'Donoghue Captain White Mr Moore Mr Corry Lord Claude Hamilton Mr Devereux Mr Esmonde Mr De La Poer Mr Blake * Mr Delahunty Mr Pollard-Urquhart Mr Nugent Sir John Power * Mr D'Arcy Mr F Dick • Hon H Fitzwilliam Mr C Weguelin 4NOTHER LETTER. Mr. Fieidea is candidate for what is called the South-East West Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Fielden is a Conservative, and is by no means impressed with admiration for Mr. Bright. More, he has been doing what he can of late to show that the hon. member for Birmingham is "no better than he ought to be." Among other things, he has charged Mr. Bright with indifference to the reform of our poor-law. He says that once he made it his business to ask Mr. Bright to help him to procure some reforms, but he would not listen to him, was uncourtcous, and finally told him that Mi. Potter knew about that subject, and he knew nothing about it. Go then, and talk to Mr. Potter. The story has been brought under the notice of Mr. Bright. That hon. gentleman r(plies—" I hope your eh c!ors will not ho mis led by the falsehoods of the Tory candidates or their pal ty. If 1 have laboured to give the working men free access to the harvests of the world for their supply of food ; if I have laboured to give them instruction by untaxed and cheap newspapers; if I have done as much as any man living to ( xtend to them the right of voting' for mem• burs of Parliament, will any man believe that I am regardless of the interests and comforts of the poor 1 Mr. Fielden knows, if ho is honest enough to say so, that his application to me hat reference to some mintife point of poor-law regulation, which did not bear at all on the treatment of the poor, but rather on the duties and position of the auditors of the Poor-law Unions, and that I directed him to Mr. Potter, because Mr. Potter had paid more attention to that point than I had, owing to the fact that the auditor of this district isoneof his constituents, and had fully explained the matter to him. I gave all the as sistance to Mr. Potter that was in my power, as both Mr. Potter and the auditor would willingly testify. Mr. Fielden, to my knowledge, did nothing for free-trade, nothing for a free press, and nothing for the extension of the fran chise. 1 have no faith in a man who does nothing for his follow-me❑ till they are found in the ranks of pauperism. For myself, I would prevent their becoming paupers ; but, if that sad fate overtook them, I would deal with them in a spirit of justice and kindness. lam not di fend ing myself from the slanders of Mr. Fielden, but I am giving you the explanation you ask for. I think Mr. Holden is one of your candidates. There was no more honest and inde pendent Liberal i❑ Parliament than Mr. Holden." The death is announced of the Dowager Countess Somers, widow of the first Earl Sonurs. Great excitement prevailed in Liverpool on Tuesday consequent on the South-west Lancashire election. A fight took place in the Exchange news-rooms, but nothing serious is re-ported. Mr. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Southern Confederacy, was present at the Warwick meeting, last week. By a curious coincidence he witnessed the success of a horse named after a former enemy of his—President Lincoln. Amongst the gentlemen called to the bar at the Inner Temple, we observe the name of Mr. Francis H. Jenne, Oxford First-Classman, and the eldest son of the late lamented Bishop of Peterborough. The Queen of Holland, who has been staying in London some weeks at Claridge's Hotel, and who has taken great interest in the charitable institutions of the metropolis, left town on Wednesday afternoon on her return to Holland, via Calais. The Queen is expected to return to this country early in the ensuing year. SCENE IN HASLINGDE N CHURCH.—Some cause of displeasure has arisen on the part of the congregation of Haslingden against their vicar, the Rev. L. H. Mordacque. The real reason of the disturbance has not transpired; but it appears that last Sunday morning and afternoon the principal part of the congregation, after the vicar had announced his text, rose from their seats and left the church. The Sunday school has been broken up, and it is in contemplation to form another, to be held in the town-hall. The Broad Arrow, which at least has arrogated to itself to be authoritative, rays :—A novel kind of torpedo, of extraordinary power, has been invented by a Mr. White head, of Fiume, and the Austrian Government has already paid £20,000 to the lucky inventor of the secret. He offer/ the exclusive possession, with a reservation in favour of Austria, of this secret to our Government, for £100,000; or the disclosure of the secret only for £20,000, to be paid conditionally on the success of the torpedo, which will be determined by a board of— inquiry,, and this will most probably be formed from the late floating obstruction com mittee. We believe our Government will accept the latter terms, for there is little probability of the secret being kept. THE BISHOP - DESIGNATE OF LONDON. Dr. Wordsworth will receive his new charge in a very diffe rent state from that in which it came into the hands of his predecessor. Bishop Jackson's prudent and diligent supervision has been 'fruitful for good, and he may be trusted to spew the same qualities in the sphere to which he is about to be transferred. The points in which he has sometimes been thought deficient—breadth of sym pathy, conciliatory manners, and the unvarying courtesy which sets everyone at ease—are of especial importance in the great see of London. These are things, however, which a man fit to govern learns from intercourse with men, and to a prelate of Bishop Jackson's sincere and simple character they cannot have been difficult of attain ment.— Guardian. ELECTION SCENE IN MASSACHUSETTS.—A corre spondent of the Nation, writing from Boston on the sth inst., gives an account of the proceedings at Salem on the day before the election of General Butler. The chairman introduced Mr. Dana, who wasgreeted with derisiveshouts, requested to take off his gloves, or put them on, I hardly remember which, and he began to speak amid loud cheers for the opposing candidate. Ile spoke for five minutes— or rather he and the crowd spoke for five minutes —in the following manner :—Mr. Dana : Fellow-citizens— The crowd : We ain't yer f e ller-citizens. Mr. Dana: Fellow-citizens of Essex--- - - The crowd : You ain't from Essex ; three cheers for Butler. Mr. Dana: I come from— The crowd : Cambridge, Cambridge. Mr. Dana : Well, now, what county is Cambridge in ? The crowd : Middle sex. Mr. Dana: And what county is Lowell in? The crowd: Middlesex. Mr. Dana: Very good ; I come from the same county from which your present representative comes. The crowd Three cheers for hint. It was evidently of little use to attempt to make a financial speech, so Mr. Dana contented himself with saying a few words and read ing a " telling" letter written by Butler some time in 1867, in which lie urged that Giant should not be nominated to the Presidency, because he bad "no head and no heart," and was impotent to govern." The letter, however, produced no effect other than more cheering for Butler. and Mr.' Dana good-humouredly sat down. MILITARY DIRTY LINEN, Londoners generally send their dirty linen to the country to be washed. Not so the military, who do exactly the reverse. L The public will be astonished to learn that the whole of the barrack and hospital bedding in the London district,which, besides other places, includes Chelsea, Ken s in g ton ,Kni ghtsbridge, Regent's Park , Hounslo w,Windsor, and the Tower, is sent to a washhouse situated in the interior of Wellington Barracks, close to Buckingham Gate. Sheets and bedding wh!ch may have beenused by a small pox patient at Hounslow or a fever patient at Windsor, are brought thence into the very midst of London, and washed in the centre of the badly-ventilated block of buildings in which the Guards and their families are quartered. The laundry is itself inade quate to the work. It was erected for the personal convenience of the regiment on the spot, but has been converted to its present use on the principle of expediency, which seems to be one of the most prominent features of military administration. In a dismal corner building near the cookhouse the linen is submitted to a process of boiling and stamping in half-dirty water. The drying closet will not dry the sheets as fast as they are washed, and it is useless to expect any bleaching or purification from exposure to the smoky air of London, in the confined courtyards of a crowded barrack. It would be interesting to know whether the sanction of the medical department has ever been given to an arrangement obviously dangerous alike to the Guards and to the inhabitants around. We believe the astounding truth to be that the spot is beyond their jurisdiction, and that they have neither power to visit nor to condemn. Meanwhile, we findat Wool. wich a totally different affair. At the Herbert Hospital there are usually some two or three hundred patients, and as the hospital was erected to accommodate a thousand, the laundry, being of corresponding size, is not athird employed. Erected regardless of expense, in a pure and bleaching atmosphere, and replete with every convenience, its staff is capable of washing for the patients in the hospital, and for the whole of the London district and the garrison at Woolwich besides, and this without an addition to the cost at which the establishment is now maintained beyond the extra soap. More than £5O per month is paid in wages, and no one exactly knows how much it costs in coals, improvements, and repairs. Official stupidity, departmental jealousy, and reckless careless ness of the public interests and health can scarcely be more clearly demonstrated. Sir Henry Storks has indeed a task in hand to remedy such evils. We wish him strength to fulfil his difficult and important mission.—The Lancet.. tHE ELECTION RIOTS. Several election riots, more or less serious, took place in several places during the two or three days just past,. Of these we have already recorded the most important. Riotous proceedings, however, are reported from Leicester. After the declaration of the poll, Lord Curzon and Mr. Pell, the Tory members returned, accompanied by a large number of their supporters, sought to return to their hotel. As they emerged from the Castle yard, guarded by a posse of polico, they were followed by a large crowd of persons hooting and groaning, which gradually increased in numbers, as did also the violence of the expressions of disapprobation. As the members passed along, the crowd made a rush at them, threatening them with personal violence. The police, however, charged and successfully repelled them. Stones and brickbats began to fly in all directions, many of the police officers being struck by these missiles. In the midst of this confusion Mr. Pell made his escape, and sought refuge in the neighbourhood. Lord Curzon was then with difficulty escorted by the police to the Assembly Rooms, amidst a perfect shower of missiles of all kinds. On reach ing the Assembly Rooms, another attempt was made by the mob to attack his lordship, but they were again pre vented by the police, who drove them in all directions. The mob waited outside, but Lord Curzon, by means of a skilful ruse, made his escape in a cab to the railway station. Most of the-shopkeepers closed their shops. At Durham city, too, the rioting was something more than ordinary. Between one and two o'clock in the after noon a party of " Reds " and a party of "Blues" met in the Market-place, and open warfare was the immediate result, the missiles consisting of loose paving -stones that were spread about the market square. One Sewell, who was not a participator in the conflict, was severely injured. As he was crossing the street, a man ran up behind him and hit him on the back of the head with a stone. The unfortunate man dropped senseless. He was removed to the hospital, where he gradually sank and died. The rioters have been remanded. LAW AND POLICE. AN UNFORTUNATE CASE.-At the Central Criminal Court, before Baron Pigott, Charles-William Templeman, 22, has been charged with the manslaughter of Stephen Blake, his father-in-law. The prisoner had married the daughter of the deceased, she being at the time only six teen years of age. The parents were aware of the marriage, but they were not consenting parties to it, and the marriage did not turn out very happily. The deceased was a valet to a gentleman in Eaton place, and "on the 11th of October the wife of the prisoner had gone to visit her mother and 'atlier there, and they were in the kitchen when the pri soner came to the house and entered the room where they were. He was at the time the worse for liquor, and by the direction of Mr. Charley, the master of the deceased, he was requested to leave the place. Some altercation took place, when the prisoner struck the deceased a violent blow in the eye, and he bled profusely. The prisoner then seized him by the neckcloth ; swung him round, threw him down, and fell violently upon him. Immediately aftei the occurrence the prisoner seemed to have exhibited the utmost sorrow and remorse for what had happened, and he wrote several letters to his wife and his mother-in-law entreating their forgiveness for what he had done. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recom mended him to mercy on the grounds that the act had been clone in the heat of passion and without premedita tion. He was sentenced to be imprisoned• and kept to hard labour for six months. BREACH OF PROMISE.—A breach of promise trial in :,he Court of Queen's Bench has excited much interest. The plaintiff was a young lady of great personal attrac tions, and the defendant a gentleman in the Indian ser vice. The courtship had gone on during the furlough of the defendant, and the marriage was to have taken place after his return. No quarrel had interposed ; but defendant declined to carry out his engagement on account of his health. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., admitted the engagement, but contended that, as it would have been suicidal for the defendant to have married, he was released de facto from his promise. The case occupied most of the day, and eventually the jury, who could not agree, were discharged without giving a verdict. THE LAST CHURCH•RATE MARTYRS.—At the Wands worth Police•court, Mr. Hanbury, a Quaker, and Mr. Ridley have been summoned for non-payment of their proportions of a church-rate of 2;3.d. in the pound, made in the parish of St. Mary, Balham, in May last. Mr. Dayman, the presiding magistrate, made an order in each case. In the course of the hearing it transpired that this would be the last of the church•rate cases. CHARGE OF ASSAULT.-At the Clerkenwell Police court, on Thursday, William Matthews was charged with assaulting Francis William Kniil , compositor, by striking him with his fist and with his walking-stick. Complainant said he was willing to accept an apology, t n 1 had offered to withdraw the charge on those conditions. The magis trate admonished the defendant, ordered him to publicly apologise, and pay the costs. Talking of the education question, a traveller observed that as he was walking on one occasion under the arcade of the Horticultural Garden, looking at the works of art displayed there, he came upon two well• dressed ladies examining a statuette of Andromeda, labelled; " Executed in Terra Cotta." " Executed in Terra Cotta," says one ; " where is that ?" " I am sure I don't know," returned the other ; " but I pity the poor girl, wherever it was." A young medical student, Mr. Edmund Miles, has met with his death rather mysteriously in Dublin. Ho was brought to one of the city hospitals at two o'clock in the morning, by two pol:ccmen, who found him in the street quite unccnscious, having a wound on the left eye, with ex tensive effusion of blood, and also a wound on the back of the head. He died in a few hours. It is stated that three men wantonly attacked him near Moore's monument, in the neiehbourhoad of Tr:nity College. His body awaits an in quest. A QUOTATION WANTED.—The stanza quoted by Mr. Reverdy Johnson in his recent speech at Brighton, expressive of the identity of race and institutions of the United States and Great Britain, was taken from a short poem, written thirty years ago by Mr. W. F. Rock, the well-known stationer of Walbrook, white on a visit to America, but printed for the first time last year in a little volume entitled " Winter Gatherings : Poems written chiefly in Youth," which Mr. Rock privately circulated among his friends in an edition de luxe. NEW SPIRITUAL PEER. —The Right Rev. Dr. W. C. Magee, recently consecrated to the bishopric of Peter borough, will become entitled to a seat in the House of Lords shortly after the meeting of Parliament, and will act as chaplain. Dr. C. Wordsworth, on his consecration to the bishopric of Lincoln, will remain without a seat until a vacancy occurs in a diocese other than Canterbury, York, London, Durham, and Winchester. Until Bishop Magee's accession to a seat on the Episcopal bench of the House of Lords, Dr. Atlay, of Hereford, will act as chaplain. GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The following appeared in our Latest Edition of yester4ay evening:— The annual general meeting of the Gresham Life Assurance Society was held this afternoon at the head offices of the society, 37, Old Jewry, City ; William Tabor, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, presided. The routine business having been transacted, The CHAIRUAN said he would now call upon the actuary and secretary to read the report of the directors for the eleve❑ months just closed. Mr. F. ALLEN Cuaris then read the report as follows : " The directors have again the pleasure to report the satisfactory progress of the society. "In the annual report for the year ending on the 31st July, 18G7, it was stated that the current and future financial years would terminate on the 30th June ; consequently, the Board have on the present occasion to make their report for 11 months only. ‘-‘ During the period commencing on the Ist of August, 1867, and ending on the 30th of June, 1868, 4,162 proposals were submitted for the assur ance of £1,660,652 ; of these the directors accepted 3,693, and issued policies for the amount of £1,438,148. "The new premiums received during the eleven months amounted to £41,422 15s. 3d. " The sums received from new premiums and renewal premiums during the eleven months now reported on, were £253,228 13s. 61, and from inte rest on investments, £34,440 17s. The income of the society from these two sources alone, with the addition of the receipts for the month of July, thus completing the receipts for twelve months, was at the rate of more than £320,000 per annum. "During the same period the sum of £99,763 Bs. Bd. was paid for endowment and assurance claims, and £12,455 3s. 10d. for bonus ; after satis faction of which, and of all other charges, a sur plus of upwards of £95,000 was added to the invested funds. "The directors retiring on this occasion are William Tabor, (george Lowe, F.R.S., and Joseph Williams, Esquire 3, who being eligible, are recom mended by the Board for re-election. " The auditors, G. H. Ladbury, Wm. Webb Venn, and William IVhitelock, Esqrs., retire, and again offer themselves for election. " The directors trust that the arrange:nents they have made for the continued development of the resources of the society, will justify their expecta tions of increasing prosperity." The CHAIRMAN, in rising to move the report just read be received and adopted, said it was with the greatest pleasure that he had to announce to the meeting that the period embraced by the repert had been the most successful and prosperous the society had ever experienced. (Hear, hear.) The amount received from new premiums during the eleven months just passed had been £41,422, and had the period been for 12 months he had no doubt the sum he should have had to announce would have been £45,000. There was another source of congratulation, and that was, that after all the claims and other expenses had been provided for, the directors were enabled to add a sum of no less than £95,000 to their invested funds. (Cheers.) Such a state of affairs was no doubt highly satisfac tory to the meeting, but he should have had to announce a still greater addition had it not been that last year was one of a pleasurable nature to the assurers—namely, a bonus y, ar. (Hear, hear.) Had it not been for that circumstance, he felt certain he should have had to announce to them that the addition made would have amounted t0£120,000 instead of £95,000. (Cheers.) The claims for the period embraced by the report, it was satisfactory to find, ha•l not been greater than was to be expected, and taking all matters into consideration, it was particularly gratifying to him to have to make such a favourable announce ment to the meeting. The sums now received from new and renewed premiums for eleven mouths added to the interest on investments, made the in come of the society from these two sources alone amount to £320,000 per annum. (Cheers.) With , out detaining them further, he would formally move the resolution for the adoption of the report. Mr. SMEE said it was with much pleasure that he seconded the proposition of their chairman. Life assurance was a subject of the highest importance to all classes, and lie knew not of a better instance to show its importance than that which hal lately taken place. A gentleman named Lund, one of the sufferers by the lamentable accident at Abergele was an assurer in this office, he had in consequence of his good health suffered his policy to lapse, but fortunately for his survivors just prior to taking the journey which ended in his death, he had renewed his policy, and thus those nearest and dearest to him ha I the satisfaction of receiving a sum of no less than £4,000. He could not too urgently impress upon those present,- and through them the public at large, the great im portance of life assurance. None knew how soon a contingency might occur, because it was not al ways the most robust and healthy that lived longest. Accidents like thatcalamity to which he had alluded came with terrible suddenness, and then it was that the prudence and forethought of the life assurer was most comforting and beneficial to those left behind. Their office was one that fully met all requirements; their position was one of per fect safety and solidity and in every case their great desire was to meet their claims in the most speedy and liberal manner. (Cheers.) The report they had just heard read, was, he felt sure, highly satisfactory to all present, and therefore he deemed it a privilege to second the resolution for its adoption. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution to the meeting, and declared it carried unanimously. Mr. TREGOE then moved the re-election of the retiring directors. They had during their term of office efficiently done their duty, an he felt they could not be better served by auy set of gentle men than those who now composed the board of directors. Mr. TYLER, in a few complimentary remarks, seconded the motion, which, on being put to the meeting by the chaiiman was carried unanimously. Mr. WILLIAMS moved, and Mr. FooKs seconded, the re-election of the retiring auditors. This reso lution was also carried unanimously. Votes of thanks having been awarded to the directors, the medical officers, the agents, the secretary and staff, and the chairman, the proceed ings terminated. AMERICAN LITERATURE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Five Years Within the Golden Gate. Although confined to one volume, we are bound to say that it conveys to our mind the idea of what is called book-making. With insufficient material the writer has eked out the volume, cribbing and patching. But having said this, we have said all we have to say against the work. The authoress fully describes San Francisco, both the city itself and the citizens. Street by street, building by building, its wharves and shipping, its hills and drainage, and its general appearance are truthfully and graphically told. The writer is a genuine Union woman, and she does not attempt to conceal how strong were her feelings in favour of the North. Her five years' residence and intercourse with Americans have given her an American tone, although she professes to be, and really is, thoroughly English. Having a kindly heart, she was the better able to understand and sympathize with the kindliness of the people, and, in conse quence, to describe the society. She gives accounts of two excursions, the one to the Mammoth Pine Grove, the other into Nevada to the Geysers. We regret that when at the Grove she did not proceed to the wonderful Valley of the Yo Scinito, which is not far distant. The Chinamen, as servants, she considers clean and honest, although the description of the quarter they occupy in the city is far from inviting. Immigration she describes as dangerous to the labourer from want of employment, and to the capitalist from want of experience. The in dustrious, economical Chinese, living on rats an I garbage, are formidable rivals in the labour market. She speaks well of the public institutions, and of the charitable, generous spirit of the inhabitants ; and although an ardent admirer of the American school system in the general diffusion of education, she condemns most heartily the mixture of boys and girls in the same seminary. She lived opposite to one during a portion of her residence in San Francisco, when she saw enough to make her declare that she would sooner condemn a daughter of her's to ignorance than permit the contamination which resulted from the mixed intercourse. There are some touching pictures of sweet creatures, with large fawn-like eyes, and luxuriant hair falling in clustering curls, who became the victims of the brute —man, who married and deserting, left them to gain a living by performing as musicians in layer bier saloons. 'ln all these cases, " husband in fault as usual," but Isabel Saxon pays a high tribute to the gentlemanly-bca.ing of American men. The difference between them and the English in this respect is, according to her, most marked ; and, we can very safely add, that she would find that difference at least as marked in Germany, France, or in most other continental nations. At the same time she administers a well-deserved rebuke to her American sisters for the manner in which much of the civility tendered by the other sex is received, and which is nowhere more visible than in public conveyances. In San Francisco a group of men on the side path, where they are frequently to be found, instantly give way, clearing the road for nor woman, and this is so in all American cities. But not only was she jostled in London, or turned into the gutter when a hulking lot of men had blocked the pavement, but while procuring bet ticket at a station two persons fashionably dressed rudely elbowed their way in before her in de fiance of all good breeding, although they could gain nothing from such hurry. We have a right to receive a lady's evidence on such points in Pre' ference to a man's. She is keener, more sensi tive, and more open to such influences, and Isabel Saxon gives her opinion in no minced way, but, as strongly as she can utter it, declaring that beyond comparison that Americans are more gentlemanlik e than her own countrymen. A man the other dap wrote to the Daily News that in Texas he dare not have hinted that he was Englishman, or his life would not have been worth an hour's purchase, and thousands would believe that, who would not read , such works as "Five Years Within the Golden Gate,' ' which dispel these gro,s misrepeseutations. A coun the try which welcomes all Europeans working on theory that its wealth is increased in direct propor tion to its immigration could not tolerate such an outrage to its system as that described by the ma° who wrote to the Daily News, and Texas as much as California has been formed by immigrants, contai niLlg only, people from everywhere. Englishmen cannot read such books as this without feeling that they can enter into American politics, and the domest ic concerns of the States where they happen to b e located, with almost as much zest as Americans' and this English lady is as good an Union woman as could anywhere be found. She deplores th e ignorance that prevailel in England of Norther° objects at the commencement of the contest, when the North was in a peculiar mood to be at tached to their cousins over the water by a boarti expression of sympathy, even though it came 10 from one section of the people. They can nev er know how eagerly it was yearned for, and how bit terly it was felt that, instead of the sympathy, th e y received only taunts and sneers. Sympathy cam e ; but, alas! for England first, and America after the IVar_ T vice England has conspienonsici failed to grasp an opportunity—once when Irelao might have been Protestantized as well as Scotland' and settled on a broad, liberal basis of gaveruincrtt,, but instead of this it was " to hell or Connaught' Again, in the great American Civil 'War, when opportunity offered of binding the Northern peop le ' in the warmest ties of frat ern ity, an d th e y se ofre „ and jeered at the chance, because like fools led by that bell-wether the Times they could not see if and only knew it after the opportunity was gol ie ; and whatever good the Times has otherwise clone has been cancelled by that one course. Isabel Sa O does not say, though she fully implies this, Ow ci through her book runs that tone which shows 11 °_ genuine American is the spirit she has imbibed lit California. At one time during the war the seces sion sion element was sufficiently strong to rais e the question of separation, and the foundation 7f Pacific empire, but it was scouted by the mas s of the people. She bears testimony to the safety °` the streets of San Francisco as well as througho ll the State of California, contrasting favourably l e this respect, not only with the Southern, but als: with some Northern towns, and notably with thee Empire City itself. This is attributable to rb excellent working of the vigilance committee, wble a l c more than anything else has shown the won deri power of self-rule in the American. California Rag peopled by a rush of the most daring, reckless °°t casts to a barren shore without any of the maeh lacr i o f of Government, and with little of the necessar ies a life. It was a wonderful achievement to grasp 3 . 14 0 subdue that herd—so to sub lue it by a stern and administration of a criminal code, that murder , ° e tc t rage, and theft were almost expelle I from a t3 (10 so peopled and placed. The means, to many all e f were as unlawful as the crimes. The idea ° c i self-constituted secret society decreeing deat h the hanging without mercy, is wholly opposed t o re Anglo-Saxon notion of order and justice ; but the n ° was a hard necessity there, which admitted of . 00 hair-splitting or fine-drawn theories. The qu esti es s was simply, Were the blackguards or the W de , men to rule ? Was the State to becomes ra i e ir o monium, or the wealthiest in the Unio? to vice, in its most open and glaring deformity, 0 shock mankind, or was one of the fairest purt i f ito of earth's surface to be redeemed for the use of ''tif human race ? We desire the more to giv e , i lis author's testimony to the result, because we h 0 tha t high esteem the bold and daring communi t i. knew when and how to act—readily perforraloger, task of personal inconvenience as well as of daog and all must now allow, with the most We result. 0 1 It was intended by the Orangemen of Liie r . b OO 9 to celebrate the return of Messrs. Cross and Turn er torchlight procession on Wednesday night, but 1 0132 iott the authorities interefered, and the projected proceo was not carried out. a l / 1° [A.DVERTISEMENT.]—Henceorth no one will doubt the vaALDic° properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalent& fe;6106,3 Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bi Dee it has already received from Invalids whose position bi'"folli deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the_fo.., whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty r et oo l ; unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " (3 , 8 1, e It e t y Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866. - The health of f en* Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all othe'oo l _ 3 .l, dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Ile / tise:3 Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at everi r o, ,stio It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his be'' i' o f his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highll a ' 218, G extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures :—Cure NO . the Marchioness de Brehau, of seven years' liver cor 0 ; Ir wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous p for ost all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the m a rt r ip tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No 1.771: Lord Stu e t , Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' (I)6"epo', No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from elY:f000, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ilatulene3Ver sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No, 46. N!, De & James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' disesse",,. 1 1 :6 spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deaftte! r e portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and tau f leD sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron 1 1 °1 name tins, is ost audaciously attached. In m at Is. 11d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 21135., 4s. 6d • ' sthe; 5 the; ei 12 lbs , 22s ; 241bs ,405.—A150 Du BARRY'S REYALEErAr e ue o pt CROCOLA.TE POWDER is packed in tin canisters ; For it i i,Vdol 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 289 cuPoti for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cuP• re e ls , and 555. tins aro sent free of carriage in England o 0 of Post Office Orden—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO. , Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Cheraists . ACTON—On the 25th inst ß ~i r at ths t o o Dublin, the wife 0, Colonel Hampden Acton, Madras Staff Core of daughter. w ife KING—On tho 2Gth inst., at Richmond, Surrey, t il° 0 1 John H. King, Esq., of a son. aoa SWINBURNE -On the 24th inst., at Westbrook, mind, Lady Swinburne, of a son. Marriages. ell 0 n • KING—TIEwErr —On the 18th inst., at Swallosf- g gy King, of Wiomere, Great Marlow, Bucks, leicl,i Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Hewett., of Sic 3ll°ll l3l: o fr f WRIGHT—BURY—On the 25th inst., at Pimperr e r ,' Ivila i e j 3 9 ford, Philip, son of Francis Wright, of Osinaslt,,r of " Derbyshire, to Alice Elizabeth, youngest da u g liw Rev. W. Bury, rector of Pimperno. Deaths. 0" s llll BINGTIAM—On the 24th inst.. Henry C. B in g , l ot of Wartnaby Hall, Leicestershire, aged 58. flOt ti o CHAWNER—On the 24th inst., at Newton Maul, of Hants, Captain Edward Here Chawner , former 4th Dragoon Guards. oA faioo HARDING—On the 231 inst., Sir John Dorrie 9 k o Q-C., D.C.L., aged 59. ~ J°''' . L - , s eAl HOOFER—On 016 25th inst., at Woodfo rd, -.6 c r Hooper, Esq., aged 4G. 00, f31 % 4 SHORTREDE— On the 2Gth inst., at The Bozo 1300 heath, Major-General Robert Shortrede, 1" Ar.ny, aged 68. . a sVit - ------- ------ A ND.- 11 ,1 London : Printed and Pulishd by WiLLIAN. go 0 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tam Suki Ol e ''o o oS ti Strand, in the Precinct of the Be troy, in i ne Middlesex.—Friday, November 27, 1808. L.: C. 1 I l i 1 1 1 I - I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1, THE NEW PARLIAMENT. The following are the members returned up to the time of making up this list. The asterisk before a member's name means that he was not a member of the last Parliament ; a dagger before the name signi fies that the member represented a different con stituency in the last House of Commons. The two last columns shew the Liberal and Conservative gains respectively:— 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1! 1 1! 11 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 , ar on Hat t of Year fe E WE bit eat Zli an 1.4 0 Ca