The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times claims the right to be very much die. appointed that the Archbishop of Dublin has not done More for his cause. The least we could expect from him was that be should shew either faith or a graceful resignation. We cannot say that he writes either as though Jie expected the Establishment to stand, or as if preferring to make the best of an inevitable disaster. His future is as dark and cheerless as hii present is unsatisfactory, and his past a compilation from the worst pages of Irish history. When everything that can be said for or against the Irish Church has been said many times, with diminish ing freshness and increasing acerbity, and when Mr. Murphy is banded to a policeman and ordered to find bail, we had hoped that the former Dean of Westmin ster would at least give new life to the wearisome question. Dr. Trench treats with the utmost indifference the argu ment of numbers, of national sentiment, or of popular will. Ex enthedrcl he Ipys down that the wealth, the worldly wisdom, and the physical superiority of the Pro. testants should in this matter make up for the numerical disproportion. If they are fewer, he adds, they cannot help it, for it is not their own fault. Their forefathers, or rather the people who should have been the forefathers of a more numerous body, were massacred by the Papists. Protestantism did wonders, and flourished, and went far to convert the wirole island, but, unfortunately, once in forty years or so, the converts, or the people who ought to have been converts, rose in a body, and murdered the very excel lent teachers to whom they were under such obli gations. In the face of this wholesale periodical extirpation of the Protestants, it is a comfort to hear, on Dr. Trench's authority, that there remains an immense number of small farmers descended from the soldiers invited by the British Government to take confis cated Irish property, who, if they are not treated as friends to the English cause. will be the ether thing, and will make Ireland a hot country. For anything the arch bishop says, he regards this as a natural and proper course, worthy of good wishes, if not of a pastoral bene diction. The Daily News notices in Archbishop Trench's recent charge a very ill-judged and dangerous resort to the his torical argument in faVour of the Establishment. The archbishop attempted to account fur the paucity in numbers of the Irish Protestants as compared with the Roman Catholic population by the astonishing statement that the progress of the Protestant faith in Ireland " bad been checked by a hideous catastrophe--nothing short of a tearing up by the roots and trampling in blood and mire of all that had been previously accomplished." This imaginative pic ture referred, it seems, to the Rebellion of 1641, in which, according to some accounts, forty thousand Protestants were massacred. The loss of these, the archbishop argued, was crippling to the advance of Protestantism, for, at the general rate of multiplication, they would by this time have increased in numbers fourfold or fivefold. We fail to see how the addition of two hundred thousand or less to the numbers of the Established Church could redeem it from the imputation of feilure ; but, setting that consideration aside altogether, is it wise for a Pro testant ecclesiastic to arouse Irish Roman Catholics to turn back to the dark history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to invite a comparison of what Protestantism may be held to have lost in sanguinary outbreaks of rebellion, with what Catholicism may be held to have lost by the policy of repression, which down to the time of the "Union was sternly maintained by England? From the days of Spenser and Raleigh to the days of Cornwallis and Castlereagh the strong hand of the law or the fiercer grasp of military domination was ever at the throat of Catholicism in Ireland. No reasonable man will compare this studied and relentless oppression as an engine for crushing out a desteseed faith with the fitful bursts of Irish insurrection in 1641 and 1689 and 1798. The Standard thinks the termination of the deadlock in Victoria remarkably illustrates the wisdom of that course which is so often foolishly and ignorantly deprecated as Imperial interference. Here we have had a direct Impe rial interference with the action upon which the nume rical majority of the colonists had vehemently set their hearts, and yet that interference has been most happy in all its results. It has lead the effect of bringing peace to the colony when peace seemed to have fled for ever, and of maintaining the balance of the colonial consti tution when all local contrivances for restoring that balance had utterly and grievously failed. The Standard is, however, disgusted with the M'Culloch Ministry. The Opposition made use of their numerical strength in the Lower House to carry a vote of want of confidence against the Sladen Ministry, and thus to revenge themselves for their discomfiture in the matter of the Darling grant. The M 'Culloch Ministry have returned to power, weakened, however, by the seces sion of all its more respectable members, and damaged irretrievably in the eyes of the mob by the loss of the one cry on which they had been trading. To fill up the vacancies in his ranks, Mr. M`Culloch has been obliged to look for his colleagues in a political stratum lower than wife ever reached by any Ministry which has yet been formed in Victoria. Of the new Ministers, it may be said that they are below the grade, morally, intellectually, and socially, of those who would be considered eligible for ministerial office in any civilised country. Of the two law officers both are barris ters of recent and colonial creation, neither of whom has ever held a brief in the Supreme Court of the colony; while the gentleman to whom has been allotted the portfolio of Public Works and Roads and Railways, has only lately failed in the humble trade of journeyman tailor. The Herald falls foul of the International Working Men's Association. This association pretends to repre sent the interests and hopes of labour. What business. then, had its general council to address to the British Executive a memorial " demanding a commutation of the sentence of the three victims of Manchester !" Had that anything to do with industrial rights ? It is amusing— nothing more —to note the prodigious complacency with which the committee assure all persons, past, present, or to come, that they have " forced" the French Empire " to drop its patronising airs to the working classes." When did that particular change come over the spirit of the Imperial dream? When did the Third Napoleon submit to this joint-stock dictation ? We have never heard of it. If not, who else did ? But mightier yet have been the works, and mightier yet are the words of the association. In Belgium itself, we are informed, " the coal lords of the basin of Charleroi" have been defeated in the courts of law ; but this is not held to be enough. The King himself must be careful, or the Leaguers will discrown him. For, they say," the Belgian Government ought, at last, to understand that petty States have no longer any raison d'ftre except they be the asylums of liberty." This is almost cool enough to atone for the atmospheric excesses of the season. Still it is not the climax, Prussia has offended the association no less than France. "Always ready to fall foul of one another," says the report, " the military Governments are cheek-by jowl when entering upon a crusade against their common enemy, the working class." In Austria the Congres promise nothing less than revolution. But it is not "political." In America its battle is being fought out against "rebellious capital.' And this is the new gospel of industry—that " capital " is " rebellious " whenever it resists a demand on the part, not of " labour," but of the " labourer." Leaving out of view the monstrous bombast which predicts, as the task of this society, the future " regeneration of mankind," we would put it seriously to intelligent working men whether their true interests are not damaged by this sort of stilted balderdash. The German exploring expedition has advanced to the 80th degree of north latitude. Captain Koldewey, says the Telegraph, has done wonders, but he is not yet so far north at one point as Parry was many years ago, or the American Hayes was at another. Parry tried the despe rate experiment of journeying over the ice itself to the Pole. It was on the 22nd June that, having left his ship behind }dm in safe quarters, he commenced his strange enterprise. Half sledges, half boats, his vehicles served alike for solid ice or open water. Whenever a pool of water was reached the boats had to be launched • as soon as the pool was crossed they had again to be dragged heavily along, often up steep and dangerous cliffs of ice. Hard as the men toiled they made hut eight miles in five days. On the 22nd July they were fortunate, and made seventeen miles—their best day's work. Soon afterwards the wind shifted to the north, and, faster by far than they could travel towards the Pole the ice was drifting bene a th th e m to the south, bearing them helplessly with it. Then only they give up the attempt ; but they had reached the high latitude of 82 deg. 40 min.-2 deg. further north than Koldewey has achieved. The German captain's chance, however, lies in his having a steamer. Where Parry was helpless and encumbered with his boats, Koldewey may probably be able to make a da sh through om 9 of the open channels that are almost always to be found in a MOVIII9 ice-field, and press on to the Pole itself. . _ Englishmen are fond of boasting about the freedom of the press, and this freedom is supposed to extend wherever the Union Jack waves. It seems, however, says the Star, that we need not go to Paris to find a plac - z in which the pleasure of the ruler is made superior to the interests of truth or the convenience of the public. A printing firm in Gibraltar announced some time since the publication of a newspaper under the name of the Calpense. The town had already one journal, the Gibraltar Ch?onicle—the Moniteur, so to speak, of the Governor—and possibly the Governor thought, as it is said some eminent persons at Paris think, that opposition newspapers are a nuisance. At all events, the proprietory (0 the new journal were instructed that if they attempted to publish the paper as they proposed an ordinance would be issued making such publication illegal without a license, which would only be granted under stringent conditions. The printing firm were rash enough to embark on their speculation in spite of this friendly Lint, and accordingly the ordinance was made—that say, the law was altered to suit the notions of Sir Richard Airey and the convenience of the Gibraltar Chron;;;Z,:. The proprietary of the Ca:pense then applied fo: a license. They were t o ld th e y conld get it only on con. dition of publishing nothing else in their paper but tele. grams and shipping news; and, of course, these hard terall they were compelled to accevt. Such is the story of 1 - .1• ..2(!c!1! ation of the Gibraltar printing firm. If it Call bttEtc.uNDl.34 AUSTRALIAN MEAT FOR ENGLAND. Experiments in the preservation of meat still excite public interest. From New South Wales we learn that an attempt is about to be made by Mr. Mort in conveying a cargo of meat, frozen by his process, from Sydney to England. The process has been for a long time before the public, and a practical test of it will be watched with interest by all concerned in what is now one of the most important questions of the clay. An instance of the success of the process carried on by the Victoria Meat Preserving Company, under the management of Mr. R. M'Cracken, has recently been brought under notice. Two legs of mutton cured by their process were hung in the rigging of the brig Greyhound, and remained there six weeks, while the vessel made a trip from this port to Hobart Town and back. The meat was afterwards cooked, and proved to be perfectly sound and palatable from the outside to the bone. The Victoria Company supply meat cured in this way at a cheaper price than salt beef, and it will no doubt come into extensive use among the shipping. The Melbourne Meat Preserving Company still carry on their operations, under the management of Mr. Ritchie ; and in the preparation of tinned meat, to which they limit themselves, they will inevitably take a leading position among colonial preservers of meat for the home market. A gratifying piece of testimony to the success of Mr. Ritchie's process was afforded by Messrs. Wilkie, Welch, and Co., in a letter to this journal a few days ago, stating that a most satisfactory trial had been made by Mr. Welch, in London, of some Australian roast mutton, cured by Mr. Ritchie before his connection with the com pany. Mr. D. Medlock's process of curing joints of meat by dipping them in bisulphate of lime was put to a public trial the other day at the Governor Arthur Hotel, Little Bourke-street, where a number of gentlemen dined off roast and boiled legs of mutton, and roast and boiled beef, which had been subjected to the process about three weeks before. The meat was served up hot, and proved to be quite equal to fresh cuts, the gravy being retained. Mr. Medlock's process is expected to prove very useful for families and shipping. He is, however, like almost all the numerous projectors of schemes for meat preservation, ambitious of trying to get at the home market, and a shipment of meat prepared by his process was sent to England by the Lincolnshire on her last trip. The result of the experiment cannot be known for some time to come, but should it prove successful, a cheap way will have been found of solving the problem which has engaged so many ingenious minds among us.--Melbourne Age, July 18. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAGAZINE. The Italian journals give some details of the blowing-up of the powder magazine at Cagliari, in Sardinia. Three distinct detonations succeeded each other with the rapidity of lightning, and the next moment the entire building was a heap of ruins. The prison and the military hospital of San Vicenzo were also seriously damaged. Five dead bodieswere found at once, horribly mutilated, and subsequently two others, those of a major of artillery and a young doctor. A large number of persons were also wounded. The disaster is believed to have been caused by the explosion of a steam-engine, which was out of order, and to the state of which the officer above•mentioned had previously called attention. All the local authorities were present at the interment of the victims, and a subscription has been opened for the families of the workmen killed. The inhabitants now demand that the magazine should be rebuilt outside the town. FATAL GAS EXPLOSION. A sad occurrence has taken place at Stratford New Town. Last month Mr. John Bennet, a licensed victualler, entered into posse sign of a large newly-built hotel on the right hand side of the Great Eastern Railway Station at Stratford. On Tuesday evening, observing a smell of gas, he went to the billiard-room to see what was the matter. His wife followed him, and when they entered the room 11Ir. Bennet lighted a match. An explosion in stantly took place, and the windows were blown out into the roadway, and the doors were also blown away. The alarm created in the neighbourhood was very great, and upon some persons rushing upstairs and entering the room they perceived Mr. and Mrs. Bennet lying on the floor. They were both severely burnt. Mr. Bennet was insensible, and from the first no hopes were entertained that his life would be spared, and he expired on Wednesday afternoon. The injuries received by Mrs. Bennet, although not so severe, have left her in a most precarious condition, and her recovery is doubtful. THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS IN BIRMINGHAM. An inquiry was held by the Birmingham borough coroner, on Tuesday afternoon, upon the skeleton remains discovered below the surface, a few days since, in Great Hampton-row. From the evidence it appeared that while several workmen were engaged digging a trench for a sewer, they came upon something like a box, at a depth of about seven feet. The removal of a part of the box revealed the fact that it contained bones and pieces of rope. An old man, aged 73, deposed that about fifty-eight or sixty years ago he remembered to have seen, when passing along the lane that was afterwards called Hangman's-lane, and now Great Hamp ton-row, a number of people standing about there, and he afterwards learnt that it was on account of a man who committed suicide by hanging himself being buried there. A surgeon, who had inspected the remains, gave a description of them. He had no doubt that they were human remains, and they formed a perfect skeleton, with the exception of the fibula, which was absent. It was about 5 feet 9 inches long, and he believed it to be that of a middle-aged man. At the foot of the coffin he found six pieces of rope, about 3 feet 4 inches in length, and about a third of an inch in thickness. There was nothing in the appearances in contradiction to the conjec tun that the body had been interred fifty or sixty years ago, when it was the law of the land that suicides should be buried at cross-roads. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that a skeleton of a middle-aged man had been recently found. LAW AND POLICE. INCENDIARY FIRES IN NORTHUMBERLAND. —At North Shields six navvies have been brought before a county magistrate on suspicion of setting fire to the stack-yards of Messrs. Bolton, Stewart, and Watson, farmers, at Earsdon, on the nights of Saturday and Monday, by which between fifty and sixty stacks of corn and hay were destroyed. The prisoners were remanded. They had been working on a new line of railway in the neighbourhood, and the county constabulary are in possession of certain evidence which they will not disclose, but which they state will connect some of the prisoners at least with this act of incendiarism. IMPORTANT CASE UNDER THE MASTER AND SERVANTS ACT.—At Fraserburg Justices of the Peace Court a case under the Master and Servants Act, which exhibited some features of interest, came on for hearing. The com plainant, Alexander Smith Currie, had engaged Donald Al`Leod for the herring•fishing season of eight weeks, at £l2 12s. wages. Five weeks after the date of the engage ment M`Leod deserted the service on the plea of `.-he complainant having struck him while at sea. For is breach of engagement the action was raised, and it was proved that, beyond addressing some angry words to M*Leod, who appeared not to have been performing his work satisfactorily, the defence had no foundation in fact. After a long debate between the litigants' agents, the justices found for the complainant, and gave judgment to the effect that of the five weeks' wages— E 7 17s. U.—which they allowed defendant to have earned, E 3 10s. should be forfeited in the name of damages to the complainant, together with 15s. modified expenses. The Church News states that at a harvest thanks- giving festival, held at Wimbledon, Surrey, last week, the organist actually played the Dead March in " Saul " as a voluntary. INLAND REVENUE ADHESIVE STAMPS ANL VALUATIONS.—In reply to an inquiry, the Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue writes : " I am directed to inform you that adhesive stamps cannot legally he used for denoting the duty payable on appraisements."— Scotsman. SUICIDE AT A RAILWAY STATION.—On Wed nesday afternoon a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, named Robert Welsh, threw himself out of the window in the wooden bridge at the Woolwich Arsenal station on to the line beneath, falling about thirty feet. When picked up he was found to be quite dead. The cause of the suicide has not transpired. THE LATE LORD HOWARD DE WALDEN.—On Tuesday the mortal remains of Lord froward de Walden, late English Minister at the Belgian Court, were brought to Antwerp, on their way to England. Every demonstra tion of respect was shown to the memory of the deceased nobleman. A military escort accompanied the funeral cortege from the railway station to the Scheldt, where the coffin was received on board the Harwich steatner Zealam. The governor of Antwerp, the burgomaster, and other local functionaries, the resident British con.luls at Antwerp and Brussels. several English clergymen, and a large number of the English residents, took part in the procession through the streets to the steamer. When the coffin had been placed in the captain's berth, the military fired a parting salute, and the steamer 6tatted on her vslaa „ . ':~,~ RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. EAST SuMERSET. The report of the directors sat s that, notwith standing the extreme depression ef trade during the half-year ending June 30, the returns showed a slight iticr,a.se over the cor esponding hal of 1867, and the directors felt sanguine that with a revival of trade the steady increase of traffic on the line would be maintained. The gross earnings for the past half-year amounted to £3,582, which, after paying £1,033 for interest on debenture debt and rent charges, left £1,530, or 60 pet cent. of balance, to the Great Weste .n Railway C anpany for work ing, and £1,020, or 40 per cent., to the company. The directors recommended a dividend on the pre ference shares at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum for the last half-year free of income-tax. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1868. the banker. At the same time, he would be happy to receive any suggestion that Mr. Noyes had to make, and it should have the careful coutaleration of the board. He hoped the trade in Belgium would improve during the next six mouths, as it was very dull at present. he report and statement of accounts were ap proved, and it was agreed that the shareholders could not do better than re• elect Messrs. Brassey and Austin, the retiring directors, at the general meeting In Brussels. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's lines amounted for the second week in August to $103,813, against $119,016 in the corresponding week last year, showing a decrease of $15,203. NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts of this company for the week ending Aug. 18 amounted on the old and new lines to £77,413, and for the corresponding week last year to £85,190, showing a decrease of £7,777. Ihe total receipts from January 1 to the above date amounted to £2,166,479, and for the same period in 1867 to £2,263,974, showing a decrease of £97,495. ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH (LIMITED). A special general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern to consider the propriety of selling and conveying to her Ma jesty's Postanaster-Geueral, upon the terms specified in the Electric Telegraph Act, 1868, the comp tny's undertaking ; the Hun. K. Griinthon iu the chair. The seal of the co:np:iny having been taxed to the register of proprietors, The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was convened for the purpose of obtaining the confirmation or rejection of an agreement provisionally entered into by the directors with the Government for the sale to the Government of the business and plant of the undertaking, provided that Parliament should pass the Money Bill in the next session ; and therefore he had to ask the proprietors for their approval of that agreement a,s the tirst step in the matter. The bargain for the sale of their un dertaking dirl not toach the comp iny's reserve fund, cash, or any of the past or undivided profits of the undertaking. All that the Goverunteut sought was tile business and pl rut to carry oa that business. The terms of the bargain were that the Government were to pay 20 years' purchase of the net profits of the company to JllllO 3u, 1868. I. caseof difference bet ween the c unp and the Go vernment the aniouut of net profits vv.:s to be settled . by arbitration, either by one arbitr 'tor mutuaily agreed on or by t,vo arbitrators and an umpire. It I was impossible to say what the arbitration would give them ; and it would be undesirable to make any estimate of the probable amount. He knew it was said out of doors they had made a gool bargain, and that the Government had made an improvident bargain, but all he had to say in that respect was that he did not ask the proprietors to negative the proposition, but to confirm it. If they negatived the proposition the Government would cuter into com petition with them. He thought it better to accept a reasonable offer than be forced into competition with a powerful rival; and, besides, Government had the idea of establishing cheap telegraphy all over the country, and the various Chambers of Commerce had urged that view before Parliament, some hay ing suggested a 6d. rate for messages from Loudon to Glasgow. Under these circumstances, such undertakings could no longer be carried on by pri vate enterprise, and he therefore recommended the proprietors to accept the offer. lie then moved a formal resolution authorising the Board to sell and I convey the undertaking of the Electric and Inter \national Telegraph Company to her Majesty's Post master-General in his corporate capacity in terms of the Electric Telegraph Act, 1868. The DEP seconded the motion. Ile said he had always taken a deep personal interest in the success of th it undertaking, and the direc tors had brought it to a point of prosperity that made him very reluctant to part will it. They were compelled, however, to surrender the un dertaking to the Government, after having brought their long labours to a successful issue. He re gretted parting with the undertaking, which was to be extended so that every man, woman, and child in the country might avail themselves of its utility. After a short discussion the resolution was car ried ; and a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman, directors, and officers of the company for their valu able services concluded tne proceedings. ROSS AND MONMOUTH. The half-yearly tueetiug was hel i at the offices, Mouwouth—Mr. Powles is the chair. The report stated that the subscriptions, with few exceptions, had been satisfactorily paid up, and the works would shortly be cointnenced, the contract having been let to Mr. Firbank. Tile report was unanimously adopted. A public meeting fu lowed at the Borough Court. the Mayor (Mr. Fowles) in the chair, when resolu tions were passed approving the scheme, and ►e c.)gnising the importance of increased efforts on the pact of the shareholders, and the share list received a considerable accession of strength. SAMBRE AND MEUSE. The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in this company was held yesterday at the offices, Moor gate-street—Mr. G. Sheward in the chair. Mr. A. &lel!grove, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, au abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. the CHAIRMAN said he had but little to tell the shareholders ; the company was going on in the usual way ; there bad been some change in the tariff; the trade in Belgium was bad; and au in crease of about one-tenth had been made since the last meeting in the mileage. He then described that the Grand Central Beige consisted originally of three lines—the Antwerp and Rotterdam, the Est beige, and the Satubre and Meuse. Subse quently other railways had been added to the syst,m, but the Stinbre and Meuse Company had nothing to du with the new arrangements, as they were en titled to a first charge of £40,000 a year, which was paid in four instalments ; one every three mouths, under the agreement. The tniuitnurn receipt of £440,000 a year had not yet been reached after which the Satubre and Meuse Company would be entitled to participaie iu surplus profits to the ex tent of 16 per cent. el the cxc ms in the net re ceipts. There were rive or six companies working under as many different agreements, and separate accounts bad to be kept. "'lcy were at present working very amicably with the Grand Central, and the £lO,OOO every three months was paid punc tually to the day, which enabled the directors of the Satubre and Meuse Company to pay without delay the dividend to the shareholders. It WW3 possible that some new arrangement might be proposed by which the accounts of the joint working of the several lines might be simpidied and the cost of keeping them reduced, but nothing iu that respect could be dune without the sanction of the share holders. Mr. Huns said he had been to the office, and bad perfectly satisfied himself that the accounts of the company were correct. lie hoped the gentle men who managed the undertaking, which wal now a very large one, would bo contented with the num ber of lines they hal now to work, and not add any more new enterprises. Ile hoped, when the Cow: i any was in receipt of a larger income than at pre- Ai tli, about I=luti a year would be set apart as tt sinking fund for the gradual redemption of the :iiques of the company. Ihe CHAIRMAN said they were already devoting 1324 each half-year, being the dividends on 1,623 -bares, to that purpose for the redemption of eilares. `l.lw 4.5 reilwated we deposited with GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 22d of August amounted, f,,r 31,650 passengers, to £10,364 ; for 747 emigrants to £661 ; for mails, &c., £1,027 ; for lhe stock and 18,434 tons of freight to £l4,oBl—total, £26,133, against £25,413 for the cornspouding week last year, showing an increase of £720. The total re ceipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £188,261 for 53 days, and for the same period last year to £188,819 for 55 days, showing a decrease of £558. LONDON LABOURERS' DWELLINGS (LIMITED). The 14th Report of the directors of this society stated that they had purchased for £1,550 28 small leasehold houses in and near Prospect-place, Rother hithe, by which the company's tenements were increased to 243. They had also commenced the erection of a block of buildings to contain 18 tenements of two rooms each at Vauxhall. The contract price was £1,613. Between the Ist of January and the 30th of June last 19 additional shares were allotted, thus raising the share capital of the society to £33,400, divided into 334 shares of £lOO each. The total amount of rent for the half-year would, if all were let, have been £1,875, to which must bo added £66 due for previous arrears, making £1,941. Of this sum £1,796, or nearly 92f per cent., had been received trona the tenants, which was about the usullproportion. During the past six months the loss from empty houses had been £BB, and frotu bad debts £l6, making a twat of £1(14, which was about £24 less than iu the cor responding six mouths last year. Thu present ar rears of rent amounted to £4l, which was about the same as last year, and probably about one .halt would ue eventually received. The cost of repairs had been gradually increasing up to the present time, but had probably now reached its full average amount. The directors continued to allow one week's rent in the half-year to those teaants who paid quite regularly, and also kept their houses in good order. The amount of bonus for the half year was £25, which was, of course, an additional item of expense. The total net rents amounted to £BB2, and the net profit of the half year to £Bll, which w.s sufficient to pay the usual dividend at the rate of 5 pe r cen t. per annum, tree of income tax, the surplus £7 being carried to the reserve fund. The sinking fund for leases amounted to £1,026. The reserve fund now amounted to £3,995 The total payments on capital account amounted to the 30th of Juue last to £33,710. ...••••• ~........ The bridge across the Missouri River at Omaha may now be looked upon as a sure tuing, and will coon be begun. The people of Omaha and Conn - cil Bluffs have both decided by their ballots to aid the Union Pacific Railroad Company in accom plishing the work, the former city to contribute $250,000, and the latter, $200,000. Steel rails have been laid on the Hudson River Railroad as far north as Cold Spring. The London Stuck Exchange Committee have appointed Wednesday, 9th inst., a special settling day in the new shares of the Illinois Central Rail road Company. Fractions of new shares to be set tled at £2O ss. per new share. It is hard times, says the Cheyenne Star, for water in the vicinity of Bitter Creek, on the Union Pacific Railroad. The workmen on the railroad there have no water but what is brought from the mountain streams, between thirty and forty miles from where they are at work. Men and animals have to be supplied in this manner, and the latter frequently suffer greatly when the supply fails, as it (toes sometimes before they are able to replenish it." The annual meeting of the stockholders of the New H wen and Northampton Railroad Compadly was held at New Haven on Wednesday, Ang. 19, and the following officers el:cted for the etisui,g year vice-presi e,u t : and superintendent, N. Yearnans ; treat,urer, Stephen D. Pardee ; sec retary, A. L. Kidston ; execu ti v e committee, Messrs. Sheffield, Kidston, and (1 .3 r idi't j°seP II C. Sheffield ; M. G. Elliot ; and directors, Messrs. Sheffield, Pardee, Kidston, and Elliot. and William W. Boardman and William Johnson of New Haven, V. Walter Phelps of New York, and Charles N. Yeatnans of Westfield. The newly-elected directors of the Vermont Valley lols, H. Henry, Governo. A H illtou, G. R. I. B ow d o i n , Ch as Chapin, J. , el Page, J. Et rr l A ta le il x r(! nu al are Hugh Williams. The presi dent is H. H. Henry. Haven Railroad are re- The screws ‘v i with ui d steel-headed rubt)er. l w i.aa a 3:ll s is' h nh ' e ge r ' s vipiho i ai n crltth is ifo u °al c irisde u a a foalfi w sdt a te y iNttleeld t ‘r h v r at the destructive jar of the trains is almost entirely obviated. IRISH CHURCH INQUIRY IN 1831 AND 1868. Cotni 4 sion of Inquiry into he Church " has already had with the evidence in few w nd trauaer ption—is su many former Blue - books lying before it, need i ll :s e r v ' u o s i t :i d s u . e rp s e o l r f t b s Y t . r h s e e p 0 Irish tt Which, weeks necessary for the o l a u b l y o u h r i s t v e of o c e c o u n t:i e s ill in the state of •' dummy," No mortal eye has perused it. The world compilation knows as much about its possible contents as was known on the 24th of June, 1867, when the address praying that the Commission might issue was carried, and when Earl Russell's attempt to give it a useful form, by the addition of an instruction to itilluire as to " the more equitable application" of those reve nues " for the benefit of the Irish people," was negatived by a majority of nit:ety to thirty-two. All that we know of the report is that it will con tain s,.me information—which we have already concerning " the nature and amount of the pro perty and revenues of the Established Church in Irel,did, with a view to their more productive management." Nevertheless, the report has already bad it, uses. Iu the first place, the expectation of it has furnished Ministers for about fifteen months past with a pretext for sayil g nothing about the policy, if they have any, which th mean to rec .mmend. It, the next place, they are able to instruct thtir support , rs to tea the con: tituencies that, until the report conies in, they cannot pledge themselvL s one way or the other : beyond this, that they will al,o'ish anomalies, even while they wit hstand spo liwion ; but what are " anomalies, " and what "abolition," and w hat" spoliation, " will be seen when the report is presented. Meanwhile, " Magherafelt " and "Achoury," and many another benetice, are to hold their breath as they may in a state of suspended animation ; whi!st "Liberal Conservativ, s"— whether their Libe ralism makes them to wish for abolitoti of anoma lies, or their Conservatism to wish for the repression of the yet unseen danger of spoliation — w il t unite cheerfull at the pods, and vote for the same " Consd , utionalist" candidate. No man of sense will be deceived by all this. Of what consequence is it to the question of establishment or disestablishment whether the revenues of the English Church in Ireland are now productively or unproductively managed? or whether the endowments and tithe rent charges of sinecure benefices might or might not be more suitably appropriated to .he augmeutatiou of the " valor eeetesuistiens" of bt-nefices a little less sinecur„? or whether in that case the incumbents of tile last would or would not cease to thunder against sac. iiege, and to Lake up their testimony eg dust spol , aton ? 'ihe Irish peoke are to all such gut:L..6o. s profo,ind y in itteretit ; being aware that their solution iu no wisp ass,sts that of the real quesdun—Shall the Establishment exist at all.? It is curious to see Low Lord Derby's a;utcce- dents, and especially his mistakes, reproduce them selves. The - Commiision of 1867 was pretty nearly moulded upon the exemplar of a certain Cominis sio'n called " of Ecclesiastical Revenues and Patro nage inquiry (Ireland)," which was also aptointed by himself during his Chief Secretaryship for that country, as a member of the Administration of the late Earl Grey, and whose four Reports of 1833, 1834, 1836, and 1837 are, with their " Sum mary of Digest of Inquiry into Revenues and Patronage" (1833), in all the libraries. That Commission, like the present, was limited to the inquiry, " What are the revenues and property of the Irish Establishment, and what are the duties of the same ?" The more important question, What part have the people of Ireland in these things, and how ought they to be appropriated for their benefit?" was then, as now, entirely laid out of sight. But there was more excuse for the omission then than now. The Commission of 1832- 7 was mainly composed of archbishops and bishops of the Irish Establishment; that of 1867-8 unless, indeed, Sir Joseph Napier has secretly received the imposition of hands—contains not a single ecclesiastic. It is not to be denied that the reports of the former Commission contained much to amuse and instruct, and it is very possible—for jobbery is of perennial growth—that the report of the actual Commission will be equally edifying. But again, it must be said, all that is really no t germane to the matter. The Irish of to-day feel as the Irish of 1835 felt. They cared but for one thing—the getting rid of the incubus of ascendancy altogether. They cared not to be told by the most reverend and right reverend Commissioners of the shocking abuses which their graces and lords ,ips confessed themselves to have winked at so long. Protestants, superior to jobbing, might redden with shame and anger to be told of such scandals, and might clamour fur a new reforwation ; but Irish Catho lics cared for none of those things. Of what moment was it to them that the aggregate income of the Irish Episcopal Leach was at least £128,808 Bs. 3id in 1834 ? that whilst the richest arehoishupric (Armagh) in that year boasted of a present revenue of " £14,494 Os. 3id.," and a possibleThue of " £23,930," the poorest (Cashel) posses,ed a revenue of £6,308 ss. 21. ? that whilst the income of the Bishop of Derry, the wealthiest of mere bishops, was £12,159 3s. 6d., that of his poorest brother, him of Cloufert and Kilinac duagh, was the not inconsiderable sum of " £2,097 11s. 6fd." ? that when the reductions enacted in 1833 should be made there would still remain two out of four archbisiloprics and eight out of eighteen bishoprics? that an aggregate sum varying in estimated amount from " £152,606 16s. Bd." to " £160,000" represented the income of 284 persons in respect of deaneries, preceutor ships, chancellorships, seven treasurerships, two vostships, twelve archdeaconries, twenty-three prebends, and one canonry, " there are not any duties annexed ;" and as to the rest, the only duties annexed were said to be either preaching in the cathedral church (" twice," " turice," or about four times iu the year," or "in turn with the other .members of the chapter," times not specified) or " attendance at chapter meetings," or " occa sional management of the Economy Fund," for the benefit of self and fellows ? that the tithes of Ireland " were estimated at £665,000 " ? that the church glebes amounted in all to " 91,137 acres, including above • 87,000 of profitable," and esti mated at " £65,200 per annum"? And hat, whilst on the one hand there were many of these beneficed clergymen who had no cure of souls at all, there were, on the other hand, as many as 4,5u0, or thereabout, of Anglican souls (no incon siderable fraction of the little flock!) without the presence of a single Anglican clergyman, beneficed or u , theneficed, to cure them ? The disclosure, no doubt, was very painful—in a merely Protestant point of view. There was no thing having the faintest likeness to it iu Protestant Church history, except perhaps the revelation in the English Rolls Court of that much less shocking " anomaly," the sinecure establishment of the Canons of Windsor ; as to which the late Master of the Rolls, in continuing a receiver of the income of one of the canons at the suit of a creditor, is re ported to have thus judicially delivered his senti ments :—" If the residence in Windsor Castle and the attendance on divine service had been stated iii the answer, or in any way shown, to be for the benefit of the public, or for the maintenance of the dignity of the Sovereign, I should have thought the case very worthy of a different consideration. But as that is not the case, it is a service to be performed for the benefit of the party himself." This, how ever, was the mildest aspect of the " anomaly." The most shocking feature was the numerical in significance of that very minorit), for whose pre tended benefit the rich wouoply was supposed to be kept up. In all the reports of itlr. Secretary Stanley's Commission of Inquiry into "revenue .nd patronage" that feature was studiously kept out of view. It was without the :scope of uis in structions. As with Lord Derby's Commission of last year, so with Mr. Stanley's Commission of 1831-3, the play was to be " Hamlet," with the part of the Prince omitted "by desire." In 1834 his col leagues of the Grey Ministry took heart of glace upon the occasion of Mr. Ward's famous motion for a further progress in the spirit of Mr.,Stauley's Irish Church T. mporalities Act of the previous year, and consented to supply that strang,iy anomalous omission. Lord Grey, supported by the great majority of the Cabinet, caused a new Coin. mission to issue to a number of laymen, presided over by Lord Brougham, then Lord Cuancellor, and called the " Commissioners of Inquiry into Public Instruction iu Ireland." They were directed by the terms of their Commission " to ascert,du the number of persons in communion with the United Church. of England and Ireland in each (Irish) benefice or parish, distinguishing, in the cases of such benefices as comprised more than one parish, the number belonging to each parish sepa rately, and to the whole collectively ; . . . to state generally whether the numbers had been for the last five yearsincreat•ing,sta,ionary, or diminish ing ; to ascertain the number of places of worship belonging to Roman Catholics, or Presbyterians, and other Protestant Dissenters" (with the like instruction as to the fluctuations of the last five years), " and the proportion of the population of each parish belonging to each of such persuasions ' respectively." The promulgation of the new Com mission was attended with one memorable inci chnt. Mr. Stanley, already at variance with his colleagues, took that occasion to retire from Earl Grey's Cabinet, and to break with the Liberal party for ever. The Commissioners report upon the above-men tioned particulars of inquiry was published in the spring of 1835. 'They had made a new and careful census of Irish population for 1834, founded, how et er, upon the last census, that of 1831, and classi fied according to professions of faith and parochial domicile. - There were 7,943,740 of Irish people within Ireland. Of these no less than 6,427,712 were Roman Catholics ; the Anglicans were set down at 852,064, but in that sum were " included a considerable number of Wesleyan (Primitive) Methodists, who " (although separated in worship) " wished to be classed as members of that body ;" there were 642,356 "Presbyterians ;" and " the other Protestant Dissenters" amounted to 21,208 iu all. There were 1,338 " cathedral and other aurches and chapels" of the Establishiusnr, be sides 196 temporary meeting-houses of the same. The Roman Catholics possessed 2,105 churches and chapels; the. Presbyterians 452 ; and the other Protestant sects 403. There were 1,385 " bene fices" belonging to the Establishmeut. Of these 907 consisted of " single parishes," and 478 were " unions of two or more parishes." In only 12 " benefices" did the whole bod) of Anglicans (iu eluding the Primitive Methodists mentioned above) exceel 5,000 ; in 91 others it reached to 2,000 only ; iu 139 othefs to 1,000 only ; iu 209 Ethers to 500 only ; iu 286 others to 200 only ; in 221 others to 100 only; in 160 others to 50 only; in 124 others to 20 only ; and in 99 others to 1 only. Nut less than 42 benefices are specified, in which, say the Couneistoners, " there ts no member of the Eslablishment." Of the cvialaratiTe 4CleWe'of the MO'WWII respective numbers of the several denominations during the past five years the "Cominissioners seem to have been unable to judge, the large emigrations or changes of domicile during that period having largely operated to disturb any calculation under that head. But the steady growth of decline in the numbers 'of the Anglican, and of increase in those of the Roman Catholic, classes of population ever since the days of Sir William Petty was abundantly ascertainable by a comparison of the received statistics with those of the report. If the E ,r 1 of Derby's Commission of last year had 'been instructed to continue that census of 1834, with similar classitieado s, down to the present time, the appearance of the lung-delayed report. would now be looked for with very general interest. As it is, we shall not be far wrong in supposing that by the time the contest begins in the new Parliament ou the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the report—should it even have appeared in the brief interval—will have been found useless for the purposes of debate. lu the meantime, how ever, the Commission has certainly had its uses, and what .these are we have endeavoured to ex plain. • DR. GOSS ON THE CO.llllvG ELECTIONS. On Sunday afternoon, Dr. Goss, the Bishop of Liverpool, blessed a new bell and opened a new tower at the Catholic chapel at South Hill, about three miles from Chorley. Alter the ceremony he delivered a discourse, in the course of which he referred to the Ritualists, and said their putting on of vestments and their ceremonies were nothing wore than a mockery ; they lacked the true signifi cance. Some newspapers in Liverpool had sneered at the lase ceremony of blessing a bed, saying that although it had been blessed, it had by some means got cracked, and had done no good. The blessing of a bell would not prey:Tit accidents happening to it ; it was only blessed that thereby - , wherever its sound might be heard, the evil spirits might be dis pelled. In referring to the principal guts ion of the day, he said it was supposed that the Catholic ()whops and clergy were banded together to pug down the Established Church in Ireland, and when that had been accomplished to pull the E,tablished Chu, ch in En g land duwu. Now, the Catholic priesthood held aloof from all political matters, and left every Catholic perfectly free to do as he liked. He ha I been a bishop for fifteen years, and during that time had never interfered it, poli tical matters. Although he had a right to use what influence he had, still he had not dune so. 11, would have every one to know that whoever paid taxes, whether he be Churchman or layman, he uad apevect right to use the vote he possessed as he liked; and, although his influence had been solicited duriug the cowing contest, he had pre ferred to keep himself aloof from those blin 1- nesses and jealousies, and left his people to act fol .iienaselves. Let every wan exercise the voix wuich the State had given him according to the dictates of his own conscience, and without in fluence. If any Catholic hears it said that he Bis.top said they must vote in a certain way they must not believe it, for he had never opened mouth upon the subject more than he had no%, done. If the Catholics were striving to pull down the Church in Ireland it was not because it was Protestant, but because it was the Church of a intuority. Ihe Catholic priesthood resented any iutet ference on Church matters on the part of the laity, so on political matters they left their flocks to act according to their own consciences, for they knew as well as he did what were the polidcal views of the candidates. After relating the persecu tions which the Irish had undergone for the last 300 years, the Bishop exhor.ed all Catholics to keep their temper during the coming election. Ile then proceeded to say that he regretted that the cry of "No Popery " had been raised by Mr. Disraeli-- a cry which was a disgrace to him and his party, but respect for the sanctuary in which he was pre vented him from using the term which would be sufficiently condemnatory of Mr. Dizrae!i's conduct. 711 E CATTLE DISEASE IN AMERICA. The I Imes' correspondent writes :—" The ex citement regarding the cattle disease has consider. ably abated, although it still lingers about New York, and has appeared in some new localities. There have been additional importations of the pest to New York city. It appeare lat Boston a few days ago. It is now reported at the towns ot Sing-Sing and Atnenia, iu New York State, and has attacked the native cattle at Paris and Dundas, iu Canada. Its appearance at the latter places is ascribed to the transmission of Western cattle to New York, along the line of the Great Western Rail way, the disease being communicated in passing to the Canadian cattle. The Canadian Board ot Agriculture has appointed a committee to proceed to the Western States and investigate the disease ; and the New York Board of Commissioners, having oeen convened by Governor Fenton, has published elaborate rules for the inspection and treatm.-nit of infected animals. Similar measures have been taken in Massachusetts. The American journals, con trary to their usual habit, do not make much of a sensation out of the matter, hence the absence of great popular excitement. The beef market, however, continues very dull, not withstanding the repeated assurances that there is nothing now to be feared, and mutton is decidedly in the ascendant. On Wednesday, August 19, the New York Board of Health were uotided of the arrival of sick cattle at four different points, and it was discovered about the same time that an in fected herd had quietly arrived a few lays previous and been offered for sale in small lots. 'There is a fear of a serious outbreak of th disease in a few days, as it has been ascertained that the period for the development of the fatal fever is front ten to thirty days. There is nothing later from Chicago respecting the disease there, but it is announced that the Board of Health of that city has decided to establish a cattle quarantine. As to the nature of the disease there is still much uncertainty. Whether it be the Spanish fever or not, whether it be true or not that Texan cattle sent north in summer communicate the disease, while those transported in winter communicate no iufec don and remain healthy themselves, few people now accept Professor Ganagee's theories as correct. It is now known that cows, calves, and bulls are at tacked by the disease alike, though mulch cows are Most liable to it. A Western journal further states that, when the fever is virulent, under certain cir cumstances it will attack sheep and horses. There is danger in handling the carcases of the in fected animals, as the virus may be communicated to the human body, through a scratch or sore. Two cases of serious illness have- occurred at Awenia, New York, in this way. The only disin fectant that can be depended upon in the cattle yards is carbolic acid, but no remedy is found foi the disease. All, or nearly all, of the cattle in which the symptoms are developed die in spite of the must cam eful treatment. No statistics of the general mortality have yet been published. It is stated that in Central Illinois 3,000 cattle, valued at $120,000, have perished. The New Orleans Crescent, talking of the excite ment there concerning the Texas cattle disease, says —" The truth is, the introdurtion of these cattle has been deadly to nothing in the West but the profits of Western cattle-raisers." Its remedy for the disease is, " Get lid of Radical despotism." There can be uo doubt as to the sanity of the editor of the Crescent. The Chi Ha brings news that the, malady is spreading throughout the country. [ADVERTISEMENT. our Facul ties.—Almost all d:sorders of the human body are dis tinctly to he traced to impure blood. Tee purification of that fluid is the first step towards health. Holloway's pills recommend themselves to the attention of all suf ferers; no injurious consequenc;:s can result from their use, no mistuke can be made in their administration. In iu'liges'ion, confirmed dyspepsia, and chronic constipatim, the most beneficial effects have been, and always must be, obtained from the wholesome power exerted by these puri fyiug.pills over the digestion. Persons whose lives wee, a centirreed series of sufferings have been restored to ease, strength, and perfect heaith by Holloway's pills after tn. fruitless trial of the whole pharmacopoeia of physic. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of I.J.indlougls Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sicknesS, skin, or biliarY affections. Pleasant, PO'Lltraget 4t3 liatgotAus: 0914 by Q 1 CloaaiSt§.—LAgYul 1~~ OLD AMERICA. The more the Northern continent of America is explored the more satisfied savans become that cly 1 " lization, starting from tlytt continent—and travels" lug the globe; ever following the sun's course —ha s returned to the laud of its birth. It is not then the A'ery but the Old World. If civilization really to this extent travelled West, its last - traces on th e continent would be bordering the Pacific, and no t the Atlantic sea board. It is known, although b ut dimly, that there are more remains of an ancien t civilization along the cou n try of t h e C o l ora d o an d some of its branches than in any other part of th e Union. Only the other day a party of Buyer° in Arizona, engaged in exploring for tue best rail' road routes, came upon a wide area of ruins ou th e banks of the Uttle Colorado river, along which they extended for a great distance. Some of the walls of buildings are yet in their places, and stand s 1 or eight feet high. The streets may be traced fo r miles. The old irrigating cauals and ditches ar e yet in a fair state of preservation, and may also be so traced. The ground is strewn with broken crockery ware. The party found vessels in curious form in ek , ceilent preservation, but of a diff erent qua lity and , finer than those found at most of the ruins in Ati; zona. Many of the walls o f th e h ouses were built 0 ' hewn stone, in a workmanlike wanner. To all "r pearance here once stood a city of many thousands of inhabitants. Who they were or to what tribe they belonged there is no rezord left to show. v a the easi, bank are the ruins of a large structure or b castle, covering several acres or l an d, with wallsle l ' standing to the height of 2U o r 3U f ee t. Th e period , nowever, to whin the savans refer is of a date fa r anterior to the building of such cities—coeval, 0r perhaps even before the construction of the mound s in the Mississippi Valley, from which :;he river I)3' of retired in the lapse of a ges . P ro f es s r r Leidzr f ettiladelpuid, has in cou rse o f p u bli ca ti on a wort' great interest on the extinct animals of Aineri ell ' Among these are reckoned several which a re O lt ooutined to Asia and Africa, such as the camel, the rhinoceros, the elephant, and mastodon. 'Me in former existence is inferred from the fossil bunc o ' particularly the teeth, which are found in conside r • able quantities in the West.. And the conclusion _ which these fossils, and those of different races e' men, bring the savans is, that the Western cono. ueut is really the Uld world, and th e Ea o tern Is 10 tact the New world. LITERARY NE IVS. (Front the Anglo-American Times.) The Rev. Newman Bail has commenced a series °I papers in the new issue of The Broadway, giving au aceeL lut of his recent visit to America. In the first Pe c ti n ° handles a subject di ffi cult to treat in au. original wan 1 " . ": nowever new and interesting to himself may be his v o P,, g i : it is not easy to excite that interest in the general pu- - ; ,u so common and matter-of-fact an affair. Failing iticident in the Cuba's p issage he extracted a.little sW irons one of the officers. "Two women m arrie 1° : - Cunard sailors, who both fell from this ma.t in 1 10 61."0 . i . ou the same voyage,' and were killed. The widows Lied again, and their husbands sailed in the smile 611 d tine of them, in New York, fell from the loreyardt 3 ; s while falling thought of his predecessor's fate. 11'3 s pa r caught caught iu a sail, but was disabled for life. Two claYs a- „ - a the other man fell from the maiuyard and was killed, s" go the two women were again widows. There was a'` ly1 rd among the men, 'Beware of a Cunard widow !' " indeed ! if these women are in the habit of making selves widows because a man is disabled. That the Cu ll %t widows must form a reculiar class even the g re'Lle io woman hater will allow, as the sex are n ut ag. the habit of finishin g off their disabled lar We suspect that the s a ilors w e r e at their °,.t tricks. There is nothi ng i u w hi c h they inure de,ligua than in taking a "rise" out of a "long shore felioWf fj, their zest is whetted if he be a p a rson and a literary 111311: likely to put what they telt him into a book. We feel °° , o fident that the delight of the Cunarder will be fu t° ., s , when he finds his "yarn" going the rounds of the 1°,!... and we hope our brethren wilt admini s ter to his g ratita ; tion by giving the Cunard " widow" as much noterieiYes, lie could desire. Although the freshness of novel t y ale perienced by Mr. Newman Hall in the proceediuge pig Cuba has been communicated by him to the account 0,113 t passage, yet we only nottee this iu anticipation of jA NO hope will be of real interest, the account of his visi t a sphere he really does understand. „its Tuere is a pleasant article in London Society pa t American Watering Place and its Fr tque utcrs." Ne WP : I :O .s well described, and the " upper teu-dom" %OW' t t i r assembles every summer. Mr. Hobbs, a wnolesal3 so di` dealer, is drugged by his womenfolk from his office i" er York city to tuat fashionable watering place. •Aft.po•t truthtul sketch of toe passage and toe steamers , V evir t .tseit is described. We regret our space does o utadu' o 1 our uur transferring this tu our columns, nor the accol"%'o tee society, but iu justice to American girls we eXL"ct tollowing:—" Fur instance there is Miss Laurence, 3 i t- oc i Yn laced, tun-loving, early rising, excursion-plaurd' i g the girl, whose papa is rich and has a French ceLlAge ba 110 sea,' who has just left school behind fur eves, 30 , 10 ,10: come down to have, as site says, 'a summer-lonS Lake the sensible girl teat she is, sue laugus at to e t it uish notion whicu prevails at the Ocean Hous e, is vulgar to be enthusiastic, an rude to exert one's-'snia In:niftily out-of-dour pastimes. You will see her Lit St ' Y 00 toe morning tripping down to her father's boathouse..,'o-ofr a little craft, as neat, as jaunty, aud brisk as herself, 6P o ° out upon toe water, rowed by its gay-hearted m l3 t reg f ter uends to her oar splendidly, and lends to the Lii otlon t iiro s twat something of uer own airy grace. Uf course s ue hi ed, at with the heartiest and must unsentimental of appt'd' 60 which Miss Juliana Hobbs, woo has really r uatu4 : to' Auld' a promise to breakiast with her friend At :tea expressably shocked, and debates within herself sv' i- 6t er she should not drop the acquaintance of such 3 t i in Crinoline. Miss Laurence eschews the rout s 0 ,,, of note!, and vastly prefers a little evening tea -driulti au impromptu strawberry-mete on the lawn. 61°1100; tittle tame tu visit a favourite ledge of ruck, Lat a boa to exercise her swimming powers twice a d , y iut A ll i e , ot oif; ocean itself ; to continue tier course of history 3"l' Pin as many pit:-tries and clam-bakes as Su" ca:cfasld ' always ready to assist in plauniug one ; rides toWla"siwor,, in her beautiful new grey pony, aud with tho se sad vor. occupations happily and healthfully spends her suivito as The Hisses Hobbs spend theirs very differently' ai iser effect to be seen in their appoaranc,. Your flobUs is vg Iv a able, and as ho described himself when they Outtsat marked down by the ladies as his sou-in-WY n vity ?' perch, when he asked" Why am I like that perch ?" „„oas a said the intended sun-in-law, looking at h bn The astonishment. "Because lam a fish out of water•vooist, only difference between the American and 0 % 0 s cor lj watering places is that there is more of what "" be fog calls gaiety in the former -the amount of friV e.l , lt „ i geLv r ! about equal. In both the mothers bring their 0 3 7 03 into the matrimonial market ; in both the sam e 3r i7i3 t° lures, and wiles are practised ; in both the Stioec ° 0 0 11 / alike—the most desperate huuters - boiug thus° ge foiled. - . THE FRENCH COTTON TRADE.—It appe3r%-tb° the total quantity of cotton imported into Frol ic° . t rec l first five mouths of this year was 56,810 tons, as c °lhP‘ t lfl with 43,767 tons in the corres cud' period of 1667 1 r so 57,423 tons in the corresponding in.gudof 160. l u i f ' imports i the receipts of raw cotton Irrioni tho C oited It rem figured for 8,951 tons, against 19,091 tons ju th e- fl" . bP tiding p p e isu r n i y o de d ian o rg f 1867, and 15,136 j a the 000P.i.,:00 l it u eo g lm p h e aey r c io o3 d rir o ei f sh. lB66. The imports from the Un ited .Lo °6 corresponding date o w f de li ee 66 : l °l7Bs647:°:d 733'4iD28: i1°13;°54 vt()- ill° Births. . wfrs Arthur MANSE—On the 6th iust., at Oake rs Wood, ,---- Mansel, of a ton. , P oefE et NAr lER—Ou the 7th inst., at Pennard. 1:1 011se ' tSI e.. he wife of Berkeley Napier, Esq ., of a daugu ti OS t BOUTLEDGE—On the 9th illtit., at 3, Oro ton, n' ni vrell-r° ' Mrs. Henry Houtledge, of a son. Matthew Marriages. S' o aouse, Barbican,i to Augusta KerbeY Y C ot 01..4 A TKINS—KERBEY City -roa d, J. Edward. Atkins , ~ &ill, Osm t o t N h •D e — la ß te lLEY—On the Bth ius at the Church, Lewisham High-read the late J. E. G. Osmond, C U _a —AO. RKethrbeeBy:hEitnqs.t.? at : the oi 1311te1. and Wickham-terrace, Lewishamso High-road. '" 0 1 tr; be o th Mary, e.deat daughter of eorge _Kiley , - 664 1,0 0 ''' ' 6outil B rough, Southwark, and (Blakey °°` t )' park, Norwood. -Evciad,t,'fWirFonoo, ceilltili:::.„:tirola., - Deaths. .., 13,0C 106 aj les CHADWICK —On the 6th inst. , at 11.oadfiele, ---, p ar , 4 John Chadwick, Esq, aged 78; also, on the ' ° o l V. day and place, Ellen, his youngest daughter, 9, ` , r be o , 0 p, .For,BEs.: On the 7th inst., at Greenwich, M''r)ir,tert° wiuow of the late Richaid Walter Forbes, of %, moil Aberdeenshire, aged 90. bfitor b° GitANGE—On the Gth inst., at Shirley; near Sout James W. La Grange, Esq ., a g ed 74. Jo arleg PENNEY—On the 9th inst. , at Canoubury, ch Penney, Esq., aged 64. , a , D e °' ROBARTS —On the 7th inst. , at Belmar° liall, J-i°: ..,,. Et. James Ww. Ilobarts, aged 47. VVLLKINsoN—Ou the sth inst., at Villeneuve, CP'l3(l." A. Wilkinson, Esq., Post Captain, Royal NavY A.,ondon : Printed and Pabliened by VVILLIA/1 ItNl3 go of. No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits Sint 0/103,,,0ty Strlnd, in the Precin ct of the Se troy, in the ‘" AttclalOgleZe—UurAW) SePtCIIIW 1. 0 3 1668, '::r - -- -.