The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times has some remarks on " Women's Rights," and deals with the arguments of Professor Fawcett on the question. According to Professor Fawcett and his friends, women are so put upon by the laws and customs of this, and, indeed, of all countries, that they have not a fair chance of chewing what they are really worth and what they can do. Taking a base advantage of some slight inferiority in physical strength, the stronger sex-- for stronger, we presume, it is admitted to be—industriously robs women, degrades them, incapacitates them, oppresses and persecutes them, just as conquering races do the less fortunate, whites the negroes, Saxons the Celts, rich men the poor, orthodox Christians heretics and schismatics, and so forth. Married women, they observe, have no personal property that a brute of. a husband cannot lay his hands upon or place at the disposal of his own credi tors. Women cannot sit in either House of Parlia ment, or hold public offices in Church or in State ; they have to votes for anything or anybody, except in a charitable institution or a joint-stock company. Everything is done to nullify and stultify them. They pay rates, and just now, as the professor observes, a good many poor women are paying rates in order that their ma'e neighbours may be able to vote ; they may be over seers of the poor and waywardens, because these offices bring work and trouble but no pay. They cannot go tc our public schools and universities. There are no col leges, fellowships, prizes, and degrees for women. They are debarred from the ennobling and invigorating prin ciple of association. Men divide them and govern them ; isolate and crush them ; shut them up and reduce them to bondage. If the professor be right in his assump tion that the social and political status of women represents nothing but oppression of the weak by the s' rong, having the sanction of laws made by the latter, then he may reasonably ask for the emancipation of the weaker sister, and with some hope of success. This assumption, however, which is the basis of his whole argument, includes only a very small part of the facts of the case. Men have their sphere, and women have their sphere, though no doubt it would save philosophers a great deal of trouble if they could be treated alike, set to the same work, charged with the same duties, and ad dressed with the same arguments. Men and women differ much more in their natural instincts, their prevailing tastes, their objects of ambition, their fancies, imagina tions, hopes and fears, loves and hates, than they do in industrial or athletic force and skill. Women are at home in private life ; abroad in public life. Their intense feel ings, their concentrated attention, their very strong sym pathies and, antipathies, the tenacity with which they cling to particular objects of interest or affection, their overweening prejudices, and the oneness . to which every thing converges around them, give them an acknow ledged supremacy in their own private circle. This is their nature—that is, their highest nature—and their happiest condition. Unfortunately, all women are not so favoured or so constituted. There are exceptional circum stances and exceptional characters. For example, "the strong-minded woman," whom Mr. Fawcett wishes to regard as a superior specimen of the sex, is an exceptional personage, with certain elements of character in excess of the usual proportion. Mr. Fawcett thinks it hard that men who cultivate and admire strength of mind them selves, should not like it equally in women. But it is not the same strength of mind in both cases ; at least, not generally ; and when a woman is so strong-minded as to suggest a resemblance to the stronger sex, men feel they could not love her, and accordingly do not like her. Men certainly engross many occupations for which women would be very competent. If, for example, Mr. Fawcett and Mr. T. Hughes would persuade the fashionable world to frequent only those shops for the sale of articles of female attire where none but shopwomen are employed, that would give a suitable occupation to many thousand women of whom some are possibly making shirts at a pittance which hardly keeps body and soul together. No doubt, concludes the leading journal, our laws are man made laws, as they are alio laws evidently made by rich men, or men with property to defend. But so it has always been everywhere, and always will be. There is nt help for it, and the only help for the classes ill-used— that is, the children, women, poor, and simple—is tha they should acquire the special craft, the special arts, graces, gifts. or what not, most befitting their humb!e ani dependent condition, and most calculated to make the best of it, under circumstances always more or less unfavourable to very great results. The Post asks which it shall be, peace or war in Europe. The fallacy which underlies any argument for peace founded on the pacific professions of Governments is patent. Nothing can be more plausible, and nothing can be more Uncertain. Put them together, make the most of them, take them to be truthful and sincere, and, after all, it will have to he owned that they are but a broken reed to lean upon. So, too, with respect to financial embar rassments, it is not that States standing on the brink o'• bankruptcy may be impelled to desperate action, but tha' they may sink their liberty of action in alliance. Also wbile it is obvious enough that words of peace are lieu tralised by measures of a warlike nature, and that in the confusion of ideas " trifles light as air" 2.3611 m:; purtentou proportions, it would be absurd to endeavour to solve the question "La Paix or la Guerre ? " on such contradc thins. That question—it is just as well to say it at one. and plainly—we n ust be content to let alone, and if the sus pense is hard to bear, the burden, heavy and comprehensive as it may he, will not have been borne in vain if it call forth, instructs, and exercises the judgment on which public opinion can be expressed with force and effect. It is folly to recur to what is done and done with for any other purpose. The time that is given to political trans formations should be improved by the development of the understanding through which they may be established permanently, and so as to constitute a peaceful guarantee. For the rest, two years ago it wag made matter of com plaint and reproach against France that she had failed to keep the peace of Europe. We thought then, as we think now, that France is not particularly bound to fulfil a common public obligation ; but be that as it may, having taken up the position assigned to her, she may reply to this question of peace or war by pointing to at alternative represented by her augmented army, ant defined by the mission imposed upon her ; and if not het proper rile, it may, and we trust will, be played so a: to maintain the honour of the empire and the tranquillit: of Europe. The prospects of the Second Empire have, says the Daily News, decidedly not brightened of late. Ugly symptom! of gathering trouble announce a period of complexes counsels, and a halting policy at home and abroad. A sense of instability and insecurity weighs upon the public mind. In all the great centres of the national life, in the commercial and manufacturing cities, the discontent and disaffection are almost universal. Even in the rural dis tricts the new conscription for the Mobile National Guard is bitterly resented in thousands of poor cottages. One good effect of this Army Reorganisation Bill is the horror of professional soldiering it has created. Another good effect of it has been to bring home to the population in the provinces the disadvantages of a personal Government. In the towns it has served to rally all sections of the Liberal parties under one common badge of resistance to military rule. Throughout the country disaffection, dis trust, contemptuous indifference, restless apprehension, prevail and increase. The Second Empire has killed the legend of the First : for VIM great benefit at least may Liberal France b_t thankful. As public spirit revives, it becomes more and more clear that the Second Empire must change its skin and become a Liberal and parlia• mentary Government, or make an end of discussion alto gether, and go back to the first principles of its origin and creation—as a Government of absolute silence, secrecy, and repression. The Standard regrets that there is no ertainty that the merits of the ease affecting President Johnson will affect its result. The Senate of the United States, which has to try the issues raised, has committed itself to the constitutionality of the Tenure of Office Act. The Chief Justice is a strong Republican. It is true that both have shewn more dignity of manner and judicial decorum than was expected ; but the Senate has decided every incl. dental question yet raised adversely to the President And not only so, but the idea that it might dare to be impartial has been received with a howl of indignation by tli Radical press, and political ruin has been threatened to every Republican Senator who shall dare to vote an ac quittal. The House of Representatives—one party to tbesuit --daily attends en masse in the Senate Chamber, as if to overawe the cuurt. If the verdict is to be given by a party vote, the condemnation of the President is as certain as would be his acquittal by any b ely of men acting honestly in a judicial spirit and on judicial principles. But a party vote on a political trial, however it may be greeted at the moment by party cheers, will be remembered, when the passions of the hour have cooled, as an act of nations: shame, which will brand with indelible infamy every mat who took part in it, and which the Senate itself as an Assembly will never recover. While the Telegraph regrets that there should have been any hitch in the preliminary proceedings for the review at Portsmouth, it finds consolation when it regards the facts from another point of view. The War Office and the public must alike see that our present arrangements indefensible, and will not work ; and that at an early they must be overhauled, thoroughly revised, and dis 3, for sonic system which will satisfy the nation that as not pay money in vain. A place for our volunteers ,it be found in the central military system of the coun ‘y, and the annual ass,nuhlies of vast bodies must be untrusted to the control of an authority capable of api.lying their energies to a useful purpose. Parliament has a great deal of work on hand, but we humbly -111,mit that, considering the aspect of the times, our milt toy system stands in the van of those questions which pr,,si for a solution. An Inspector-General of Reserve :Forces, worth his salt, ought to be capable of suggesting a general plan, so far as his department is .concerned ; and we should have some guarantee that the follies of 1868 will not he repeated in 1869. Lord Ranelagh's scheme of orga nisation, whatever it is, may be totally beside the mark, and wholly unacceptable • but he has the merit of having persistently sign a lised a ilaring defect, and he is certainly entitled to boast that the Portsmouth transaction amply warrants the application of the word " sham " to the Volunteer army, considered in its relation to actual ser vice. May the warning mace (irLy t 1)' ace it (1:.); THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. The ceremonial to be observed at the installation of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on the 18th inst., bas been published in Dublin, from the Office of Arms, Dublin Castle. The streets are to be lined with military 'rom the Castle down Cork-hill ancl'along Dame-street, college-green, Grafton-street, Nassau-street, Dawson street, Stephen's-green, York-street, Aungier-street, to the cathedral. No carriage of any description will be allowed in the streets after half-past two s'clock, except those of his Excellency's household, of the knights, esquires, and officers of the order. His Excellency the Grand Master, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, will proceed in state from the Castle to the cathedral. The knights, esquires, and officers of the order will assemble at the cathedral at three o'clock, where his Excellency will be received by the dean and chapter, and conducted to the chapter-room by a procession of the verger, registrar, seneschal, minor canons, prebendaries, dean's verger, dean (kettle-drums —trumpets), pursuivants, his excellency's household, the private secretary, the ander secretary ; esquires, three and three; herald, installed .:nights, equerries to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Lords in Waiting to his Royal Highness, Comptroller to the Household to his Royal Highness, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the officers of the Order of St. Patrick, she Sword of State, borne by the Earl of Mayo ; aides-de- Amp, his Excellency the Grand Master, the Sovereign's ssquires. When the procession has passed into the cathe dral, the Hereditary Great Seneschal of Ireland, the Earl of Waterford (the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot) will receive her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales and her Excellency the Marchioness of Abercorn, and conduct them up the middle aisle to the dais prepared for them. In the chapter-room, the Grand Master having ascended :he throne, and the installed knights taken their seats, with their esquires standing behind them, the knight to be installed will stand at his seat, the first at the table, and his esquires will deposit thereon his Royal Highness's collar, mantle, and sword, and fix his banner. The dean will subsequently read her Majesty's direction ' that the installation be held, and inform his Excellency that there is no other business before the chapter but to carry out the Sovereign's commands. His Excellency having said that this shall forthwith be done, the proces sion will re-form, and on entering the choir the officers of the order and others will fall to the right and left, and the knights proceed to their stalls, and remain standing under their banners until the Grand Master reaches his stall. His Excellency will then take his seat, and the senior installed knight and the other knights, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, will take their seats. The "Te Deum " will then be sung, and the installation will take place. " Ulster," kneeling, will deliver the collar of the order, on a blue velvet cushion, to the Grand Master. By command of the Grand Master, the two senior knights will descend from their seats, and his Royal Highness will be girt by them with the sword and robed with the mantle. At each ceremony the prelate will read the admonition. His Excellency having invested the Prince with the collar, he will be reconducted to his stall. The senior esquire of his Royal Highness will then unfurl his banner, and " Ulster " (Sir Bernard Burke), with a 'lourish of trumpets, will declare his Royal Highness's ;ties, including that of " Principal Knight Companion f the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick." After his proclamation, all resuming their seats, the principal esquire will present the offering in a purse to the registrar, and on the banner being deposited within the rails, a grand anthem will be performed. At its conclusion " Ulster," making three reverences to the Grand Master, hnd waving his sceptre, the procession, marshalled as on entering the cathedral, will return by the same route to Castle. The arrangements for the Prince's stay in Ireland, announced on authority, fill up the first week of the Royal visit, between the 15th and the 22nd instant. Arriving on the former day, in all probability early in the afternoon, the Prince will next day go by special train and open carriage, to Punchestown —which some Irish men, in their exuberant loyalty, propose to call " Princestown." On Friday the ball at the Mansion House will take place ; and the installation on the 18th will be succeeded by the installation banquet in the Castle in the evening. On Monday, the 20th, there will be a ball on a grand scale at' the Castle ; and on Tuesday the Prince will open the Spring Cattle Show of the Royal Dublin Society. Under the auspices of that society there will also be a conversazione in the evening. The citizens' ball at the Exhibition Palace is arranged for Wednesday. Preparations are also being made for a ball at the Royal Hospital, to be given by Lord Strathnairn, but no evening has been named as yet. The guards of honour in attendanex on the Prince and Princess at the various festivities will be supplied by the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, and the band of the Gaards is to arrive in Kingstown from London on Monday next for this special service. There is a pool deal of street-painting going forwartlin Dublin in preparation for these events, and the city already presents rather a gay appearance. The devices appearing in front of various public buildings and large establishments sliew that the illuminations will be exten sive, but it is not now considered advisable that the; be universal. SAFETY OF DR. LIVINGSTONE. All doubts and fears as to the safety of Dr. Livingstone are now fortunately set at rest by the gratifying intelli gence that letters have been received from him by Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar. These letters, which are now in Lon don, announce the safety of the traveller, and report him to have succeeded in the object of his perilous journey. They were transmitted to Dr. Kirk by Arabs who had travelled from the northern portion of Africa. The wel come missives also report that Dr. Livingstone has had on the whole a very successful journey ; that he has, as may be supposed, made many important discoveries, and that he will soon return to England. It will be remembered that Dr. Livingstone went out to Zanzibar, and thence, in 1866, to the interior,with the view of exploring Lake Tanganyika, and determining its waterflow. Everyone will also recollect how the painful news came to Erg'and that the men who had accom panied him has returned to the coast, and had told the story of Livingstone's having been put to death by men of the Mazete tribe. This account obtained almost general credit, and England mourned the fate of the intrepid traveller. However, Sir Boderick Murchison and one or two other gentlemen c‘eild not feel by any means certain of the truth of this story, and their doubts were the stronger from knowing that these Johanna men are proverbially liars. So strong was the conviction of the President of the Geogra phical Society that Dr. Livingstone was yet alive (for he felt quite certain that the details of the account given by these men were untrue), that he used the utmost exertions with the society and with the Government to have an ex ploring party sent out. This was at length at to, and Mr. Young and Mr. FauLner were despatched to Za uzi bar, and proceeded up the Zambesi in August last to Lake Nyassa. Here Mr. Young had no small difficulty in keeping with • him the negroes whom he had brought from the coast. But he contrived to visit many villages, and in many places he obtained tidings of Dr. Livingstone, there being no reason to doubt that he was the European whom the natives described as having passed through the country twelve months earlier. It is to be regretted that Mr. Young was unable to induce the natives to go with him so as to trace Dr. Livingstone yet farther than he was enabled to do by report ; but there was a circumstantiality about the evi dence which he collected ,and an agreement in its nature, though given by persons . far asunder, which made it impossible to doubt the deductions which he drew from it. The evidence, as collected from the natives near Lake Nyassa, was, that Dr. Livingstone bad passed through Mafunda at the southern end of the lake. Marengo., a local chief, gave Mr. Young an account of the return of the Juliann men, who did not tell him that Livingstone bad been killed, but that they had returned, as they had only agreed to carry his baggage as far as they liked. He utterly ridiculed the idea of the Mazete having been near the place at which the Johanna men said they had killed Livingstone, and declared that if he lief! died three months' journey away he would have hea. d of it. He alleged that Livingstone had gone south, and produced a man who declared that he had gone five days' journey with him. In various places articles which Dr. Li v i,lgstone carried with film for barter were procured from the natives, such as a Com mon Prayer-book, portions of the "Nautical Almanac" for 1866, in which he had wrapped up medicine, and oth. r matters which strongly confirmed the story of his having passed through the country in safety. There can be ne doubt that he travelled in safety for five days' journey 3eyond the place at which his lying servants sail he had been killed, and there seems good reason to exaseet that he continued to travel eastward and across the cmti nent again, or he may have turned to the north, as some have suggested, and so down the Nile to Alexandria. Whichever course he may have taken, it is a subject for congratulation that there were men at home who doubted the lying story of his returned servants, and that their doubts were so pressed in the proper quarter as to lead to the relief which all felt on reading the evidence that chewed these doubts to have been fully justified. It is further satisfactory to learn that the difficulties of travel ling in these regions seem to diminish in proportion to the frequency of the expeditions, for Mr. Young expressed the greatest readiness to go o ut again if needful.—Post, 4 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY E 1 VENLNG, APRIL 9, 1868 , NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE. Detachments of the Ist and 2d Battalions of the Ist Royals, Ist Battalion of the 15th Regiment, 2d Battalion of the 17th Regiment, 50th Queen's Own Regiment, and 109th Bombay Infantry, with Lieut. J. E. C. Doveson, 50th Regiment, in charge, have proceeded from Chatham garrisou to the Govern ment rifle range at Milt:m, to undergo a course of instruction in ball practice with the Snider rifle pre viously to embarking for foreign service. A party of non-commissioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers has left headquarters, Chatham, for the Isle of Grain, to be employed in the repair and construction of the defences erected at the confluence of the Thames and Medway. Lieut. Montgomery, 2 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 20 rank and file of the 83d Regiment are held in readiness to proceed froin the depot to the service companies at Gibraltar about the 20th inst. The Commander-in-Chief has approved the transfer of Serg. Ryan, 96th Regiment, to the Staff of the Tipperary Light Infantry Militia, and Col. Mon tague, Royal Engineers, has assumed the command of the Royal Engineer Corps in the eastern district in the room of Major-Gen. M'Causland, retired on full pay. The whole of the high-pressure twin-screw steam launches constructed and fitting at Chatham dock yard are in future to mount a single rifled gun, -which will be carried in the bow of each. An Admiralty order received at Chatham dock yard directs that in future no applications will be received by the Board of Admiralty for increase of salaries, wages, &c., earlier than the month of October. or later than December in each year. With the exception of those at Chatham dockyard the whole of the first-class draughtsmen at the several naval establishments have been placed on the sala ried lists, on salaries of £125 per annum, in accord ance with ;a petition presented to the Admiralty to that effect. The troops brought to England in the St. Law rence, Indiaman, from Calcutta, as reported in The Sun of yesterday, were landed early yesterday morn ing from the ship and forwarded to their several des tinations—the invalided soldiers to the Royal Vic toria Hospital at Netley, and the time-expired soldiers to their regimental depots. The St. Law rence afterwards sailed for London. The Minotaur, screw, armoured iron frigate, 34, 6,621 tons, 1,350-horse power, Captain James G. Goodenough, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden, C. 8., the admiral commanding the Channel squadron, attended by the Warrior, screw, armoured iron frigate, 32, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse power, Capt. Henry Boys, and the paddle despatch yacht Helicon (unarmoured, wooden), 2, 837 tons, 250-horse power, Commander Edward Field, sailed from Spithead at midday yesterday for Holyhead, to escort their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales on their voyage to and from Ireland on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. . . — Her Majesty's Indian troopship Serapis arrived at Alexandria at 4.40 p.m. on the 30th ult. The troops conveyed in her from Portsmouth will proceed from Suez to Bombay in the Malabar. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the London Tavern—Mr. Alderman Dakin in the chair. Mr. B. BAKER, the secretary, having read the minutes of the last meeting, which were confirmed, the report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and statement of accounts, said that the ac counts bad been kept in the same form for years past, so that the shareholders might be enabled readily to compare the items of one statement of accounts with another. The receipts on capital ac count during the past half year amounted to £4,421 for arrears of calls, leaving only £2,020 still in arrear, which was covered by the outstanding divi dends, so that they could not lose much on that account. The expenditure on capital account amounted to £23,240, and of that expenditure £18,306 had been expended on account of the nar row gauge line for accommodating the through traffic. In fact, it completed the expenditure that had been authorised two years ago, leaving the ex penditure on capital account for the past half year £4,931. It was now considered a most desirable thing to have a closed capital account (hear, hear) land they had been gradually arriving at that point. At all events, the capital account would be practi cally closed at present, and if only £5,000 in the half-year were necessary for capital purposes they might not object to charge it to revenue instead of capital. (Wear.) The third rail laid dowu for the " Blue line," or through traffic, had been a perfect succ ess. 'They had received a report from the general manager, which stated that the " Blue line" business commenced on the Ist of January, 1867, and up to the 31st of December, 1867, the freight carried over it was 91,590 tons east, and 55,462 tons west—total, 147,052 tons, and the earnings amounted to $2,692,615. The average earnings per ton per mile was $1.96. Their endeavours had been to raise the rates so as to cover the additional expenses of conversion, but that was a paying rate. The division of the $2,692,615 traffic over the eight railways on the Blue line route, extending about 2,000 miles, admitted of a portion to the Great Western Railway of $658,056. The largest portion of the earnings was taken by those having the largest number of cars on the line, and those who were deficient in supplying the number of cars fixed for them had to pay so much per car for those not supplied. The Great Western Com pany's proportion was 152 cars, but they only supplied 130 cars, and they bad to pay 2s per m ile per car deficient to make up their compliment of the supply. Each car was calculated to run 30,000 miles in the year. The business required for the Blue-line service 619 blue cars, but at the close of the year they had only 593 blue cars. The business was now managed so that the cars of the eight companies working over the narrow gauge, or Blue line, of the Great Western and other compa nies were all new, being of one uniform pattern, corresponding in size and make, so that if any part of a car broke down on the route there were dupli cate parts at every principal station to repair it at once, which afforded great facilities in carrying on the traffic. When he told them that the total loss and damage arising to the traffic carried over the Blue line only amounted to $6,455 for the year, of which the Great Western share was $1,398, or about one quarter per cent. on the earnings, they would perceive how successfully that joint service had been carried on. The company's mammoth iron boat Great Western, after a year's trial in all kinds of weather, both by night and day, had not failed to perform all that was expected of her. She would take on her deck from 14 to 16 loaded cars, and make the trip with them from dock to dock in ten minutes. She had not failed to meet the entire wants of the line, and might be looked upon as a perfect success. The third rail, from Windsor to Suspension-bridge, had enabled the Great Western in the same train to work with the " Blue line," or narrow gauge cars, successfully. The result had been to open up the only unbroken guage of roads between the east and the west, upon which the " Blue line" cars ran from the Atlantic to Kansas and lowa to the west, and over the entire roads, west, south, and north of Chicago; also to the cities and towns in the east, without transfer, with only one waybill for the entire route. Therefore the third rail had annexed the traffic to the entire satisfaction of the company, and the suc cess of the line was fully established. With regard to the directors' report, it showed that the total traffic receipts amounted to £69,773 over those of the corresponding period of 1867, but they had to submit to a loss by the exchanges which was very heavy. Ile was sorry to say that the local trade had not kept up to its usual proportion. The loss on the conversion of American funds into gold had been £66,600 against £48,228 in the correspond ing period last year. In the preceding half-year end►ng the 31st July, 1867, the local traffic amounted to 43.95 per cent. of the whole, and the through traffic to 56 . 0 per cent., but in the past half-year the proportion was 34.9 per ce at. for local traffic and 65.1 per cent. for through tr affic. The entire result of the working for the pa st ha.T ‘ f_ye a r Pry/ a divi dpreondduactedthaepfitraroteofth4atpeenrabeelendt.threerm a t n o on, ai against one o h f al 3 f a showed a . i .y p ea er r. cen T t h . e per wo a r n k n i t n i g na e i x n pe t mse lte, satisfactory feature, and that greo .t care was exercised on the part of the exec atLve to econo mise the expenditure. In the, corresponding half, ending the 31st of Jam' Lary, 1867, the working expenses were 50.26 per cent. of the receipts, while for the past half-year they amounted to 48.31 per cent., sh owing a decrease of nearly 2 per cent. (Hear.) Arere it not for the loss on the currency he believed they would have had about double the dividend they had now to de clare. In the course of 6' ;years they had lost £651,459 on exchanges, which Ironic? have otherwise fruc tified in the hands of t'63 shareholders. The re newal and maintenance of the line was another im portant item ; that roll - tired special attention, as nothing could be more fe Ilacious than to neglect the efficient working of the i !ailway to make a reduction in that item. The effol is of the directors had been directed to maintain the I ine fully, and in the utmost state of efficiency. I) tiring the past six years £333,000 had been exponiied in the renewal of the permanent way, and th , a dividend, half year after half year, had been redo eed by that process, but the road had been kept up ; and improved. Their able engineer had estimated the future renewal and maintenance of the line at £70,000 a year, and for the third rail au additional amount of £B,OOO, making £78,000 ; but the directors had expended for that purpose £43,&89 in the past half-year, raising the amount to 'the rate of £87,000 a year, against £78,000, or £9,000 more than the estimate of Mr. Reid. They considered that £5,000 a year should be set aside for the renewal of the ferry boats. He then alluded to the balance of the Go vernment loan to the company amounting to £573,688, stating that the accumulation of interest would make it £220,000 more, or £793,000. It was called a Government loan in their accounts, but in the Public Act it appeared as the Go vernment aid to the railway. He was in hopes that the matter would be dealt with in a liberal spirit, especially as the support of the Government, in the first instance, had been an inducement to British capitalists to subscribe largely towards the con struction of the Great Western Railway in Canada; but soon after it was made the Grand Trunk schema was also patronised by the Canadian Government to make a railway from Toronto to Sarnia, as a competing line within 20 miles of the Great Wes tern Railway. This he considered was a breach of faith with the Great Western Railway Company, and had materially injured their property. The ' dividends of the Great Western of Canada Railway from the year 1854 to 1858, both inclusive, ave raged 6 per cent. per annum, but from 1859 to 1867 the dividends averaged only 2 per cent. per annum, which showed the injurious effect on their dividends. The colony had been greatly benefited by the railway, and they had all the advantages of the increased railway communication in the coun try. The Boari considered that they had a claim on the Government in respect of those matters. He had hoped that something would have been done before this time by the authorities in Canada. The Grand Trunk agreement would come before the meeting in due course, and he would just refer to the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway, in which they were greatly interested. The traffic on that line was progressing satisfactorily, and he had no doubt that before long they would derive some con• tributions from it in respect of the capital they had advanced years ago to the Detroit Company. The total receipts on the Milwaukee Railway amounted for the year 1867 to £361,912, and the working expenses to £203,942, leaving a net re venue of £157,970, which was applicable to inte rest on bonds and capital expenditure ; because the Milwaukee Company had no capital to go to for expenses on capital account. The interest on bonds and loans amounted to £82,611, and after deduc tions on other accounts there remained a surplus of £18,900, so that the undertaking was in a flourish ing and healthy condition. There had been an en deavour made to raise 3300,000 on capital account for capital purposes, which, if obtained, would have allowed a great portion of the surplus revenue to go for dividends. Mr. A. lions seconded the adoption of the re port, and the declaration of the dividend of 4i per cent. per annum, free of income tax, payable on the 30th inst. After some observations from Mr. Cannan, Mr. Nicholson, and Mr. Villeboisnet, Colonel EVELYN said he was in favour of closing the capital account absolutely. He was oppos.ll to a division of traffic with the Grand Trunk Com pany, and thought that the proposed modification of a clause in the agreement showed that it was not what it ought to be. lie feared it would be a long time before they derived dividends from the Detroit and Milwaukee Railway Company. As to the loss s somuch difference rrency, as, he thought it did not make was supposed, because so n the inflation of the currency had some thi ng t o d o with the increased rates and larger receipts. The resolution was carried unanimously. The meeting was then made special, and a resolu tion pass :d confirming the traffic agreement with the Grand Trunk Railway Company, with certain mo difi ca ti on s, enabling either party, on giving six months' notice ei to terminate the agreement. The proceedings concluded w ith a vote o f t h an k s to the chairman and directors. KNOWLEDGE OF AMERICA. (From the Anglo-American Times) It is observable in England that a knowledge of America and American affairs is rapidly becoming general. American questions are now much dis cussed, and a more intimate acquaintance with them shown. Indifference is begotten of ignorance ; and knowledge creates interest. An Ashantee savage is not likely to have his attention fixed by a discussion of CLARA LoUISE KELLOGG'S merits as an opera singer, nor is a British peasant likely to be absorbed in an account of art in China. Does the Goth care what atones LAYARD discovered in Nineveh? The Vandal would stick them up in his hut, and, if he were a cleanly savage, put a coating of white wash over the inscription. So long as the English remained profoundly ignorant of American politics, parties, customs, and even geography, they could scarcely be expected to feel much interest in the country. - It has always been a marvel to a travelled American that this should be so. lie asked himself how it was possible that the Great Republic should receive so little notice from the kinsfolk in Europe, considering the mighty changes contained in the word. Ours, he said, is a nation, in extent equalling Europe, embracing tracts among the most favoured by ❑ature, containing a population rapidly becom ing the largest, of a race the most energetic and intelligent. Surely the rise of such a community is worth the serious attention of mankind. Our Go vernment, built on the principles of Democracy, presents a spectacle that might well attract foreign notice. The problem of a Republic is being solved by the United States, and on its solution depends the future government of mankind. If we succeed in elevating the mass, so as to enable it to extract from itself its best respresentatives, Republican Government will triumph, and it will be shown that the only true and stable rule is thus based. If, on the contrary, we fail, our failure, in all human pro bability, will be decisive; and undeniable proof will be furnished that it is almost hopeless to expect to cultivate in a community sufficient virtue to enable its members wisely to-rule themselves. Is not the great trial of Democracy worthy something more than a fleeting notice from those it so nearly con cerns. Until the war broke out, the U l nited States was a terra incognita in England. The Potomac an Oxford man would have guessed to be somewhere in Africa, and the Chickahommimy was the sacred stream in which the llindoos washed their sins away. The Southerners were a brave people, fighting with desperate odds against the oppressive North ; the Northerners were a grasping, greedy, trading community who fought for empire and the "almighty dollar." Both sections were Yankees who spoke through their noses, sittiag round a table whereon their feet rested, while some smoked and others chewed. The negroes were the docile and well treated servants of the aristocratic Southerners, and the Red Indians the noble and picturesque tribes whom the Yankees hid dispossessed, and whom they were civilizing off the face of the earth with gunpowder and rum. It is not surprising that those whose knowledge of the United States was limited to these genuine facts could not appreciate the prin ciples for which the war was fought; the enthusiasm which gave the unfaltering perseverance and energy, and prompted the mighty sacrifices. There was a jealousy of the rising greatness of Yankeedom ; there was dislike to the Republican principles of which the citizens were the propagandists, in the higher classes of England which so generally give the tone to British society. But the great deeds of the mighty conflict could not fail to fascinate, and mankind gradually became absorbed in watching the war. It was necessary, to understand it, to know something of the country ; to have an idea of its vast rivers, its great coast line, its mountain ranges, and long tracks of railroads. Thus, people in Europe gained within a few years a knowledge of American geography such as was not acquired since the days of COLUABUS. From this knowledge sprang other shoots. It then appeared that New York was not the United States ; that the citizens of New England differed materially from the Western farmers and the Southern planters ; that there were other poets than LONGFELLOW, other historians than PRESCOTT, other novelists than COOPER; that there were great jurists and states men as well as writers ; that the most distinguished military and naval commanders of the age were Americans; that their inventions were not confined to Yankee notions, but that most of the improve ments in the implements—alike of agriculture, manufacture, and of wa r—originated in the United States. In art, it was. discover.A there were such painters as BIERSTADT and'CITURCH ; such sculptors as STORY. The English idea of American news papers was derived from DICKENS'S Key-hole Ob server, and the Tourist was surprised to hurl what the daily ores 3 of New York really was. That an unaided journal did not hesitate to pay a thousand pounds for a single message of no great importance opened his eyes to the magnitude of their operations and the enterprise with which they were conducted ; yet he fails to realise the fact that the intelligence placed every morning before the citizens of New York is far more complete and costly than that contained in the pages of the Times. Though the interest now taken by the English in the affairs of the United States is observable in conversation and in the columns of the press, yet it is strange that the people do not apply for information to the American organs of opinion, which are seldom seen anywhere in Great Britain. In a London club French, German, and Italian newsp ipers will be found ; Canadian, Australian, and Indian ; bat scarcely ever one from that laud of newspapers, the United States. Why should we take, the English ask, newspapers in which we will find ourselves heartily abused? The sober columns of the Neu' York Times are given to argument and reason, not abuse ; and if a thorough national view, from the American stand-point, be desired, which is, after all, what ought to be sought, so that both sides of the question may be seen, it is given in the New York Tribune. At the same time that we can understand the daily press of New York not being suited to the taste of the upper classes in England, we desire to observe that this is not the case with such weekly literary papers as the Nation and the Round Thble. Their manner of discussing subjects is remarkably free from prejudice, and strikingly the reverse of the charge brought against the Ameri can press of truckling to the mob. The Nation is constantly in hot water from the force and freedom with which it persists in discussing the measures of its own party; and the Round Table brings down the national indignation on its head by showing up national foibles or social delinquencies. The lite rary merit of the articles of such papers is nowhere else surpassed, and it is seldom that the Saturday Review, or even the Spectator, brings one out excel ling these in terse, clear reasoning, in purity of diction, or manifest honesty of purpose. Such papers ought to be found in every English club and general reading-room, and they would quickly cor rect the erroneous impressions so widely spread. They are free from what, „to the English, would be the uninteresting detail, the personal news of per sons unknown, and local matters, which must al ways fill the columns of a daily ; and the questions they discuss are so broad in their interest and gene ral in their application as to be read with great pleasure and instruction on this as well as on the other side of the Atlantic; and much the same may be said of many periodicals. Occasionally an illus trated paper, such as Frank Leslie, is seen in a London Club ; but it comes from the endeavour of the proprietor to promote the circulation, forwarding the copy free, to a place where it will be much seen. The effect of the increased interest of the English in American affairs will be felt in the introduction and more general circulation of American reviews. The writer has lately been frequently asked, " Which are the best American papers for us to take ?" and these inquiries are but straws to show the drift of the tide. LADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Fills are decidedly the best remedy for all disorders of the stomach, the liver, and kidneys. They act with so decided an effect, and yet so gently, that people of the most delicate constitutions may take them with the most perfect confidence. They do not contain a single grain of mercury or other noxious sub stance, being composed exclusively of rare balsams. They ire, therefore, equally safe and efficacious, and as a family oedicine nothing yet discovered or invented can be corn eared with them. With these inestimable pills at band, with the printed directions affixed to each box, no other medical advice or assistance can be needed in any ordinary CIAO of Adam% THE LATE MR. CHAUNCEY RARE TOWNSEND. - The name of Mr. Chauncey Hare Townsend, who died at his house in Norfolk-street, Park-lane, on the 25th of February, was once better known than at present among men of letters. Born in the year 1798, he was educated at Eton and Trinity-hall, Cambridge, and afterwards took Holy Orders, but was soon disabled by illness, and never resumed the active duties of his profession. An ample in dependence enabled him to fall back on literary pursuits to which his tastes and retiring habits in clined him. He had, indeed, scarcely passed the age of boyhood when he introduced himself by letter to the notice of Robert Southey as an aspirant for poetical honours. The result was an invitation to Greta-hall, Southey's well-known residence in the Vale of Keswick. Encouraged by the approbation of the elder poet, who was ever ready to give his advice or lend his countenance, whether to obscure or youthful genius, he published in 1821 a volume of poems, characterised by an unusual delicacy and refinement, both of feeling and expression. It was not till 1851 that he brought out a second volume, "Sermons in Sonnets," which was followed in 1859 by " The Three Gate 4," both exhibiting the same grace of poetical style, qualified by a certain metaphysical subtlety. Meanwhile he had bestowed much attention on the theory and practice of mesmerism, which he bad studied in Paris, and in which he was for many years a firm, but not cer tainly a blind or superstitious, believer. On this subject he published two works, " Facts in Mes merism" (1844), and " Mesmerism Proved True" (1854), the latter in answer to an article in the Quarterly Review. It was, however, in private life that his most attractive qualities were dis played. He was au accomplished musician, and sang the songs of his own composition with a high degree of grace and expression. He drew and painted with no mean skill. He was a lover of art, and a collector of rare judgment and exquisite taste. Every house in which he lived had, indeed, the interest. of an art museum, though they will chiefly be remembered for the refined and gracious hospitality with which they were thrown open to his friends during the • brief periods in which they were occupied by their owner, for during the whole of his later life he spent the greater part of the year at his villa Monloisir, at Lausanne. Some interesting papers in All the Year Round on " Bewick," and on his " Poultry-yard," show the nature of his occupation in this beautiful retreat. He had expressed a desire to be interred in some quiet Surrey churchyard, and the new cemetery at Godahning was selected, as being in the immediate neighbourhood of Busbridge, his residence in early life. His property is chiefly devoted by his will to public objects. He bequeaths to the President of the Council for the time being, for the benefit of the South Kensington Museum, such of his pic tures, water-colour drawings, and engravings as the Lord President may select ; also his collection of Swiss coins and his boxes of precious stones and cameos, together with the ancient gold watch which, having been stolen by the celebrated Barring ton, was the cause of his transportation ; also the looking-glass and frame over his drawing-room chimney-piece, carved by Grinling Gibbons. The articles thus bequeathed are said to be of great Value. The only conditions that he attaches to this gift are that the articles may not be sold or exchanged, but publicly exhibited. The rest of his pictures, drawings, engravings, books, curiosities, and objects of vertu are given to the Wisbeach Museum. The residue of his personal estate is de voted to founding a school in or near London for educational purposes, of the humblest and simplest kind, upon a plan to be settled by the Bishop of Lon don. The residue of his real estate (subject, how ever, to the payment of his debts and legacies, which are specially charged thereon) is devised to his trus tees and executors for their absolute benefit. He adds a hope (but repudiates any trust or obliga tion) that his trustees will deem it right to aid him to the best of their ability in establishing the school to which he devotes his personal estate. He directs, moreover, that so much of his notes and reflections as may throw light on his religious opinions shall be published by Mr. Dickens. PIICENIX GAS. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held London-bridge, yester day ; Mr. J. E. Johnson in the chair. at the Bridge-house Hotel, London_ The report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders upon the re sults achieved during the half-year. The directors had continued to offer the most strenuous opposi tion to the bill in Parliament, and, with a view of bringing matters to an issue and escaping from the serious Parliamentary expenses to which they had been subjected in maintaining the rights of the shareholders, had joined with the directors of most of the other metropolitan gas companies to promote a bill which embodied the suggestion of the com mittee of last Session, by which the companies would be enabled to form amalgamations among themselves. Mr. HORNER seconded the motion, which was adopted, and the dividends proposed in the report were declared. STATE OF TRADE. -.- .... BELFAST, April 7.—Flax. —ln the various mar kets the supplies scarcely reached an average ; prices in some instances were barely maintained. Yarns. —'['he business transacted has been to a consider able extent, with a good healthy demand. A fair amount of business has been done on Continental account. Stocks are small. In prices, in some in stances, an advance has been realised. Offers have been declined at the prices of last week. Hand loom Linens (brown). —Improvement in demand has been reported for cambric handkerchiefs. A good steady demand exists for light and heavy linens ; prices in some instances have advanced. Not much business doing in drills or printing lawns. Power-loom.—A fair demand exists for roughs, and cloth for dyeing and hollauds. Improvement in demand has been reported for diapers ; damasks are dull of sale; prices of both without change. But little business doing in drills or cloth suitable for the foreign clothing trade. A good demand exists fur light linens for bleaching. Operations have been checked owing to advance in prices having been de manded. Bleacl•ed and Finished Linens.--llemand on home account has been of an average character, and a considerable number of orders has been placed. Although improvement in Continental trade may be reported still business has not been on an ex tended scale. American advices report improve ment there, and buyers have appeared in the mar ket, and have operated pretty freely. Stocks con tinue to be held in narrow bounds; prices are firm, with an upward tendency COMMERCIAL MORALITY. Sir SAMUEL MORTON PETO is what Americans call a representative man, for be fully and truth fully represents the Philistine element of the English mane classes. Ilis examination in the Bank ruptcy Court must be in the highest degree satis factory to the mass—not of his Bristol, but of his commercial constituents—we mean• the society he redly does represent. lie has not been chosen by them, but his qualities are those which in late years have found such favour and been so generally adopted by the mercantile community. In the fullest sense, he is a " shent per shent " man ; he is a " heads I win, tails you lose" m an . We would be sorry for those whose share of the spoils consisted of what Sir MORTON left; he is not among persons saying, w ho see any force in the s live c e Company, showeredand 1 et live." The convict WlLKlNsoisri,wh ' h k aro und him the money of th e Joint S e : n o at least benefited his associates. The Philistines dined sumptuously at his table ; when he took an Express train from Brighton to London, he could give a friend or two a seat, and when he " bust up " he went to gaol like a man. But Sir MORTON seems to have financed everything into thin air —the London, Chatham, and Dover is ruined; the shareholders are ruined ; and Sir MORTON himself is answering disagreeable que stions in a bank ruptcy court. We recollect when the great contractor made his tour of Ame rica. Everywhere he was received as the capitalist who carried with him showers of blessings. In his steps railroads sprang ; people bowed down as he passed ; and we r emem b er reading w i t h astonish ment the comments of some audacious American editor, who had the hardihood to criticise the great man. The danger of the class of Philistines Sir MORTON represents is that they are wolves iu sheep's clothing. When a sharp Yankee trader comes forward to do business, he tells you in his manner, in his countenance, almost in words— " Look out : you have a 'cute one to deal with." With the keen eye of a north -country Briton on you, you know that you must be up early to cope with the Yorkshiremau ; but the man of ponderous presence, whose thoughts, reasons, purse, all, have the appearance of being weighty, every line of whose countenance, every stitch of whose garments, are all respectable ; who speaks solemnly, wisely, and with liberality and correctness of sentiment ; then, what chance has the outsider, who puts faith in all he sees ? The name of such a man on a pros pectus is the guarantee of its truth ; the interest of such a man in the concern is almost the guarantee of its success ; because the honesty and fairness with which it will be conducted is certified ; the prudence which will characterise its transactions in sured, while one feels thatif it did not contain the ele ments of prosperity it would not have been proposed. The years 1866-7-8 are remarkable for the overthrow of domestic idols—the raids of the iconoclasts. If England had a big god set up in a very high place, that idol was the respectability of such men. The word of her merchant princes was their bond. Little traders might put sand in their sugar, or a lump of suet under the scale, but they were of another genus—with none of that high-toned mora lity which was the chief trait of the class to which we allude. What a fearful disenchantment ! What an illustration of BYRON'S saying that every man has his pries, from kicks to halfpence. The Anglo- Saxon goes in for halfpenc?, and with an increasing, greed that no considerations can check, devour ing, if the opportunity offers, the substance of widows and orphans. The growth of luxHry is the real cause of all the disgrace , and woe brought upon the land. Every one cannot fare sumptuously an d drive about iu purple and fine linen, however much we desire to do so ; and too rawly, alas ! not only desire, but do so. Spurrei on by the necessity of meeting the expenditure, men gradually learn to stop at nothing. When it is known that a merchant whose position is high has dune what another would like to do, but in his heart feels to he immoral, he is encouraged to do it, and hi s example is followed by others. Thus, the standard becomes lowered, and men drift into transactions which ix ' the We of the world, when diecoyered, they attempt attempt to justify, declaring that they can see no impropriety in their conduct. Some accept 3 bonus for the use of their names ; others an wino' payment for business they neglect; many, if they are to be believed, see no harm in deceiving the public into an investment in the highest degree speculative, though represented by them as wholly free from risk. If the speculation turned out profitable, the lion's share of the gain went to them selves ; if the reverse, on the victims fell the disaster. A vast portion of the nation knew little or nothing of business. They desired to get au amount of interest for money which no old established country can return ; the Joint Stock Act of 1832 opened to all classes the gates of trade, and through that opening rushed the ignorant crowd. They had one idea ; though they did not themselves understand the nature of the c mcern in which they had embarked. So a nd So did, and he was a man of the highest honour, of great business knowledge, and of large fortune. This was their guarantee—and what it has come to all England knows. his idol was a Philistine, w ho cared nothing for anything but to enrich himself, and to enjoy the fruits of his gains. If the igno rant mass, thinking him a god, pressed forward to lay their offerings at his feet, was he to descend from his pleasant niche, reject their gifts, and show what a vile thing he in truth was ? Indeed this was more than could be expected of human nature, and the ignorant believers in the virtue of mankind have learnt by a sad experience the value of a name.—.4nglo-American Tinzes. A FEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE " OLDEST CHURCH IN LONDON." The re-opening at St. Bartholomew the Great on the 29th ult., after some restoration, however incomplete, yet of what may have been strangely little known, for at least two or three generations/ as the " oldest London" church, must be a far front everyday occurrence. Beyond this, however, it must be fairly sub mitted to antiquarians, whether this, reported to have been begun in " 1103" and finished in ten years, be not one of the very oldest now existing in " England," and whether " half-a-dozen" at utmost could be fairly pointed out as, beyond any frag mentary remains, certainly older. The arches of the " chapel in the White Tower" (London), with corresponding " apse," or the rude ones at " St. Michael's, St. Albans," may come nearest. Gloucester and Norwich Cathedrals, St. John's, Chester, not to mention the most beautiful English-Norman church, Steyning, are bolder. These, however, at St. Bartholomew's are not ab solutely ugly, and must command interest from their age. The blank mullioned arches above ore symmetrical, and the upper " pointed" windowil better. Over the middle aisle is a timber roof, said to be the original—if so, showing a great age of ligneous endurance ; while the stone groining o f the low aisles is almost graceful, or " classic." Some of the " pointed" windows here, especially , 4 three light" ones in the north, now much shorter thou the south, are excellent. The altar-tomb, with canopied roof, of Rahere , is elegant, and calls attention to a doubly venerable man, pious founder, according to his conscience, of a priory and an " hospital for the sick poor." There is, too, a very handsome table mural monument 1 0 the south aisle. • What was the lower part of the " central tower ' is not unlike Chichester. Doubtless they had coin' peteut advice now; but there certainly was an e' pressed opinion some 25 years ago, probably of the late Mr. Cottingham, that the northern side here+ which has a weak appearance, might hardly outls " fifty years." In the present brick tower, believed about 159 0 + and between 80 and 90ft. high, are five small belle+ tenor, 10 cwt., but all old. ' One dedicated to the patron saint, with Ora pro me, dated, "1423 ;" th e whole strongly asserted to have a great proportion of "silver." The reopening sermons at this " old" church wer e most appropriately preached by the bishop and arch' deacon of the diocese. The former's text fro►' Jeremiah, alluding to " old paths," was admirably " in keeping," though it was well understood that he did not refer to " Mediavalisna" in doctrine, in our " pure and reformed part" of the Christian Church, to which the respected archdeacon has lie more affinity. The merit of this " restoration" is mainly due to the long-esteemed rector, the Rev. J. Abbess, syll ° gave £l,OOO, and a lay supporter and treasurer , &c., Mr. Boord, a neighbouring distiller, who con' tributed the same sum, with a promise of £5O O more if needed. The governors of St. Bartholo mew's Hospital also (though in the smaller parigi of the same name) subscribed what they d o ubt' less thought the proper maximum for their trust funds, £5OO, in honour of their benevolent and pious founder. The announcement of the death of Judge David Wilmot, of the Court of Claims, brings to mind the long struggle—notyet ended, indeed—over the celebrated " W . ll- mot proviso." When the proposition to introduce certain territories west of the Upper Mississippi . to the Union $ 5 States came before Congress Mr. Wilmot was a representativ e from Pennsylvania. He drew up a "proviso" uncondi," tionally prohibiting slav er y i n th ose new terr i tor i es; was offered as an amendment to every " territorial" bill' Against the " Wilmot proviso" Mr. Douglas pitted " P° pular sovereignty," but thi s " prov i so " has triumph'''. Mr. Wilmot was really the founder of the Republican party ; though, strangley enough, he was not an aboli tionist of that extreme faction of which Wendell Philips and W. L. Garrison are leaders. Ho was a man of smal l ability, one of the few who have greatness thrust 11 0 /1 them.—Standard. LADVERTISEMENT.J—Consumption, and all nervous, biltol stomach and liver complai n t s i n every stage are only agval'o'tlif and accelerated by dru gs o f every descr i pt i on, but perfeC.eV curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Fo° as proved by thousands of cases which had been consider°,,, hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma ; CO sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric deratW,' ments, haemorrhoids, liver conaplaidts, flatulency, ner vousne? , ', biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphthe r i a, catarrhs, colds, ''„ fluenza, noises in the head and e a r s , r h eumatism, gout, i nl P" ,, rities, eruptions, hysteria, n eura l g i a, i rr i tabili,v, steeplessn e° acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, droPI: cramps, spasms, nausea a n d s i c k ness, even in pregnancy or chest' sea, sinking tits, bronchitis, scro f a l a, t i ghtness of the pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, a s We quote a few.—Th e Pope's health restored by Du Barr'a Food. Cure No 6 8,413.--" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health vl the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du BarP a i Revalenta. Arabica Food, of which he consumes a pla.ei t a at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisingly benetl , - 0 effect on his health, and h i s Holiness cannot praise „. excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette the July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Robot ts 111 . timber " g . chant, of Frirraley, Surrey, o f t hi rty years ' diseased lun spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafues'v Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenaut, n i Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,8t,2. F P OO , years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousn e „d asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness s', y vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution—Beware . 1 118 ,"0 unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, With,. authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attache d ' In tins at Is. 11(1.; 1 lb., 2s 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d,; 5 lbs. 1 ' 7 7, 121b5., 225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Du BARRY and Co., N°.', l ,. Regent-street; London; also Fortnum an d M ason, 182, Piccad,,,",3,; 4 and at 61, Oracechurch- s t ree t ; 4, Ch eaps id e; 63, 150, and ' Oxford-street; 330. Strand and all grocers and chemists. Births. LONG—On the 7th inst., at South Park, Salehurst, Mrs. Charles F. Long, of a daughter. MURRAY—On the Bth inst., at 13, Gloucester-place, 1 1 9 de' park, the wife of Archibald Murray, Esq., of a son. SHUTE—On the 7th inst., the wife of Col. Cameron Wi t ' of a son. Marriages. BARRETT—TUCKER—On the 7th inst., at St. Mary's, d;' liugton, George Barrett, Esq., of Gloucester, to A Mary, eighth d a u g ht er o f J osep h T uc k er , E s q., of Du " - can-terrace, Islington. WARD—DENNIS—At St. Pancras Church, Marylebo o6l Edward John Ward, Captain R.A., Fort Brockhurl t " Gosport, only son of Mrs. Elliot, of Appleby Car to to Annie Clark, last surviving child of the 0. John Dennis, Esq., Blakewell, Devon. Deaths. ANDERSON—On the 6th inst., at the Branch Bank of VI I r land, Newcastle-on-Tyue, Robert Anderson, 8 64 , 1 aged 60. COTTENHAM—On the 7th inst., at The Cedars, Sunni n f hill, Barks, Caroline Elizab e th, Countess of Cotten/law"' aged 65. CHADS—On the 7th inst., at Southsea, Admiral Sir o° l3ll Ducie Chads, aged 81. a t HILLEIISDoN—On the sth inst., at Weelsby House, uf —, o , Grimsby, Florence, only daughter of F. E. Hillersa ° Esq., late of Kirtingtou, Oxfordshire, aged 13. JACKSON —On the 3d iust., at Green House, Knotting Win. Jackson, Esq., aged 63. MosLEY—On the ith inst., at Rolleston Rectory, the B es'. Peplue Puget Mosley, aged 73. ROWE—On the 7th inst., at Hackney, Mr. James I .osce ' aged 73. 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