The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-20 00:00:00

MOSES and SON, AIER C ILANT TAILORS and OUTFITTERS. ,lor. ALL CLASSES. XC E LLE NC E WITH CIIEAPNESS. IRICES BASED SY ST ON M. READY -MONEY "1 1 1 - 1 E ADVAN ['AGES of the READY-MONEY -IL SYSTEM cannot be better expressed than in the following extract from a leading article in the " Times :" " Everybody knows the difference between a credit and a ready-money business. It is this partly which affords one tailor the excuse for charging L 7 is. for a coat while another will charge 4s. ..It is true that every tradesman ought to abate his charges to customers who pay him punctually. Still we know how in this particular we all suffer for a few delin quents." A LL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURE - CI MOSES and SON. X. 4 • ADDRESSES BELOW. EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. MOSES and SON, Ready - made and Bes p oke E• Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, 144,,ier,:. Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for f.ll Classes. Every article the best of its kind in Material, Style, and Workmanship. AN unusually large and varied STOCK for the SIMMER SEASON, in every Department. For JUVENILES there is a distinct department, containing an unequalled assortment of Clothing for every occasion. The most Fashionable Styles are combined with the best Materials and Workmanship. List of Prices, with Miss of self-measurement, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. Every article is marked the lowest price in plain figures, from which no abatement can be made. Any article not approved of will be exchanged, or the money Will be returned. F, . MOSES and SON'S Establishments are Closed every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed till 11 o'clock. The following are the London addresses of E . MOSES and SON:- 1.55, MINORIES 156, YINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALL:IATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGATE 87, ALDGATE 83, ALDGAT F. 89, ALDGATE 506, NEW OXFORD-STREET 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET 503, NF:\V OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, lIART-STREET 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 133, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch; 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. SPECIAL NOTICE. - - ---- - In consequence of frequent misrepresentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their only Establishments aro the above-mentioned. COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCE!) VICTUALLERS. - _ r HE only article really suitable for that purpose, -I- ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address 105, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. CLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN. WILLIAM HOLDICII and CO., No. 105, Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No. 5, he Pavement, Clapham-common. F A.BLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, I expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towellings of avery description. Patterns gratis and post free. CARDIGAN JACKETS made expressly for Bar use, Warm and Elastic, from ss. 6d. each, for _,allies' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM HOLDICII and Co., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. WILLIAM. HOLDICH and Co., LICENSED VicTuALLEits' DRAPERS, Established 1842, at 105, Fleet-street, City ; Southern Branch—No. 5, The Pave -I.inont, Clapham-common. Patterns gratis and post free, with Price List, TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. ESTABLISIIED 1812. ILLTAM lIOLDICII and CO., LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. 105, Fleet-street, corn©r of Farringdon-street ; and at No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI, Soso Proprietor ani Ma.tn,;, ,,, r. Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon THIS EVENING (Mr. Anson's Benefit), at 7. A BOUGH DIA SIOND. Messrs. G. Belmore, Ashley; Mrs. Billiugton, and Miss Lennox Gray. A a quarter to Eight, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. G. Belmore, Billington, A shley, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith; Viss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Louisa Moore, Miss Maria Harris, and Miss Lennox Grey. To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Messrs. J. W. Anson, G. Belmore, Belford; Miss Polly Marshall, and Miss Fanny Addison. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, POOR PILLICODDY. After which (at 8 o'clock), Dion Boucicault's new drama, in four acts, entitled AFTER DARK. a Tale of London Life. Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, H. J. Montague, J. U Shore; Miss Tressy Marston, and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds awl assistants. 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SMITH'S, 38, Bow-street, Covent-garden. npHE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. SMITFEI Camden. Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden torn. .IFE BOAT SERVICES. —During the Storms of A. 4 the past year the National Lifeboat Institution con ributod to the saving of 1,086 lives from various ship wrecks and 36 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended £31,845 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £3,189 for rewards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on their 187 Lifeboat Establishments. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adolphi, Loudon. . r ;:ftV , 411 t Z5l t LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868. The electors of the Tower Hamlets appear to be the object of attention to more than one adventur ous politician. The member whose name is most associated with theirs, Mr. AYRTON, M.P., has the merit at least of making himself and his constitu- ency noticeable by bringing them constantly before the public. The hon. member sometimes does use ful service no doubt by opening questions which more timid or hesitating mortals are shown to begin. When he takes the lead others follow who are averse to take the first step. No considera tions of prudence or taste deter the energetic member for the Tower Hamlets. When he has resolved upon a particular course he follows it at all hazards, indifferent apparently alike to public opinion or the scarcely concealed irritation of Parlia ment. During the last session he made himself conspicuous by his opposition to the Metropolitan Cattle Bill, and through the sheer pertinacity of himself and his followers the bill was virtually defeated. The majority of the members were strongly in its favour, and on every division they carried all before them, but from an in- genious and persevering application of the rules of the House, according to the letter and not to the spirit, the opponents of the measure, few in number though they were, suc ceeded in throwing it out, for the session at least. It is true that theirs was in all probability only a temporary victory, but it showed what could be accomplished by unscrupulous determination. In the coming Parliament the Tower Hamlets are to boast of four members, all of whom, according to Mr. AYRTON'S belief, are to share his politics. It is not unreasonable to hope that they will not also share his energy and his powers of speech upon every occasion, great or small, else the days of future sessions are likely to be interminable. Mr. AYRTON'S political opinions are already pretty well known, both to his own constituents and to the country at large. They ought to be so, since by his own showing he has been sixteen years a member of Parliament without seeing reason to change or modify his opinions. The question of Reform was, he tells us, one of the very first upon which he took his stand, and be has always strongly upheld the cause. It is somewhat surprising, how ever, to find how large a share Mr. AYRTON had in passing the Reform Bill of 1867, although, after all, he is not very well satisfied with it. It was Mr. AYRTON who procured the reduction of the lodger's term of residence from twelve to six months. It was owing to Mr. AYRTON that the Tower Hamlets was the only large constituency which was divided into two, with four members. If Mr. AYRTON'S advice had been taken in other respects the bill would have been much better, but such as it is the public will be a little surprised to learn that the credit of settling the reform question is not due to Mr. DISRAELI, but to Mr. GLADSTONE. " It was to the self-denial and spirit of Mr. GLAD STONE in resigning office when defeated on reform that the settlement of the question was in truth due." After this skilful putting of the case no one can deny Mr. AYOTON'S ingenuity. On education Mr. AYRTON has not much to say, excepting that he is in favour of secular education ; while as to trades unions he is inclined to s ipport theta. Oa local questions he speaks fairly and sensibly enough, and in reference to the gas ques tion is anxious to obtain the removal of the gaso meters from the populous centres of London. Mr. AYRTON declared his intention to stand entirely by himself without regard to any of the other Can didates. One of these candidates seems likely to be a formidable opponent, both from his local influence and from his political principles,which are likely from their moderation to conciliate a good many supporters. Mr. COOPE, like Mr. AYRTON, is opposed to an additional burden upon the rate payers, though anxious to promote the cause of popular education. Like him, too, he is inclined to look with favour upon trades unions under certain conditions, as most candidates for the suffrages of the Tower Hamlets probably will be. Mr. COOPE touches on some subjects which Mr. AYRTON has not noticed,though since his address only is before us, we must wait for a full exposition of his principles until he has an opportunity of personally addressing his constituents. One of the subjects which he specially touches upon closely concerns the majority of the metropolitan ratepayers, and we are glad to find Mr. COOPE "is heartily in favour of a comprehensive measure for the equali sation of the poor rates throughout the metropolis, being strongly of opinion that they are very un justly distributed at the present time." As to the injustice and inequality of the present system there can hardly be two opinions, but unfortunately the wealthier parishes are very unwilling to bear their due share of the public burdens. It would be surprising were it not for the strength of the interests opposed to this much-needed reform that it has been so long delayed. The absurdity of the struggling shopkeeper in Spitalfields or Poplar pay ing six shillings in the pound while the wealthy householder of Hanover or Grosvenor-square pays sixpence has been often commented upon, but the grievance is not felt by those who legislate, and is perpetuated year by year. The question is seldom brought forward, and when it is it is speedily dis posed of or thrust aside. We hope that Mr. COOPE may find a party who have courage to support him in the new Parliament, and if he succeed in carry ing this important social reform he will have done the public good service. The long-continued distress in the East-end of London has come specially under his notice, and he declares himself ready to promote any measures likely to ameliorate it. The lightening of the burden of the rates will be one step towards this desirable end, and the relations which Mr. COOPE desires to bring about between capital and labour will do still more, if they are ever accomplished. "It is for the benefit of each," ha says, justly enough, " that a rate of wages should be adopted which, on the one hand, is not so high as to drive away capital, and, on the other, not so low as to compel the labourer to seek other countries for remunerative support." The British Association commenced its labours yesterday, and Norwich was chosen for the place of its assembling. Dr. HOOKER, the President for the year, delivered an inaugural address, which was most interesting and impressive. He commenced by adverting to the fact that it was thirty years since he had first attended a meeting of the British Association, and that was at Newcastle. It is curious to notice that on that occasion the council of the. ssociation resolved,tdadvise herIMAJEsTY's Govern ment to despatch an expedition to the Ant arctic' regions, under the command of Captain JAmr,t3 Ross, and Dr. HOOKER determined to ac corrapat ly this expedition, and it was in this way theft his scientific career was shaped. It is, in dev2d, >malting for him to look back upon the t, he l'As been connected with the discovery of th e Po l Aar Barrier, the Southern Magnetic Poles, the Antarctic Continent, and the ice-clad vol canwo of Victoria Land. It has been computed by tatisticians that thirty years represent the avers ge duration of human life, but, according to the records of the British Association, it does not seem so, for of the 14 junior officers who presided in 1b"38, only two remain—Sir RODERICK ARM CID:SCOI and Professor PHILLIPS. The custom of " Presidential Addresses " dates from the period referred to; for before that other officers had the task of delivering them, and there is some truth in the objections raised by Dr. 1100K.Ea against the practice, for it adds to the difficulties attendant on the choice of Pre sident, it being presumed that great responsibility attaches itself to the preparation of these addresses. It stands to reason that the time and research re quired for the arrangement of an elaborate dis course must interfere with the necessary duties of the office, and thus the speaker is put to a great disadvantage. Nevertheless it must be admitted that there is nothing to complain of in this inaugural affair, and it may be perused with profit and pleasure by all desirous of acquainting them selves with the general details of science, and their relation to everyday life. In reference to Museums, Dr HOOKER very truly remarked that much of their utility depended upon two conditions that we are apt to overlook—their situation, and their light ing and other arrangements. The country museum is quite in a dark, out-of-the-way place, and it seems only meant to catch people on market days, the town folks „tot going near it. Schools never frequent a provincial museum, and yet they could derive mnch useful knowledge from it if duly directed to it. At Kew, where there are many out-of-door attractions, there are many visitors to the museum, and this is because of better arrangements being made with respect to it. It would be if more general attention was paid to this matter, because a useful means of imparting knowledge is thereby lost,' and people go on lament ably ignorant of what ordinary minds can fully comprehend. As it is put in this explanation be fore us—" What boy that had ever been shown their skulls would call a seal or porpoise a fish, or believe a hedgehog could milk cows, as many do implicitly?" The British Museum is not advantage ously placed with respect to position, and those who pine for fresh air in its galleries have only the re sort of the hotter and dustier streets before them. The labours of the able officers who conduct the affairs of the British Museum have effected wonders, and from being thirty years ago the sixth in Europe now ranks as the finest in the world. The greatest botanical discoveries of late years have been physiological, and Mr. DARWIN'S series of papers on the fertilization of plants have been of great service in the advancement of knowledge. This distinguished naturalist has entered into the subject so fully that he has been considered to have thrown more light on the matters he treated of than all previous botanical writers had accomplished. His paper on the well-known forms of the primrose and the cowslip contained much that was surprising, and the results took botanists by surprise. Dr HOOKER observes that he himself felt that his knowledge had been but little deeper than Peter Bell's, to whom A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And—it was nothing more." Among other important generalisations on this point may be mentioned that plants with conspicuously coloured flowers or powerful odours, or honeyed secretions, are fertilised by insects, while those of a contrary kind are fertilised by the wind, from whence it is inferred that before honey-feeding insects were in existence, the " vegetation of our globe could not have been ornamented with brighter coloured flowers, but consisted of such plants as pines, oaks, grapes, nettles," &c. It is indeed most interesting to follow out the observa tions to which these researches lead 119, and to notice how effectually the results are put before us, and what before seemed impossible of comprehension is rendered easy to understand. Dr. HOOKER did not go too far when he said that what FARADAYS discoveries are to telegraphy Mr. DARWIN'S will assuredly prove to social economy in its widest sense and most extended application. Towards the conclusion of his admirable address Dr. HOOKER dwelt upon the attempt now being made by prehistoric archaeology to lead us where man has not yet ventured to tread, and he well asked if in pursuing this theme we could separate the physical from the spiritual aspect. All are, however, permitted to search for " com mon truths that underlie both." It has been well said of all truth by Mr. DISRAELI that it is the " sovereign passion of mankind." Care should be taken in touching upon the relative attitudes of religion and science, and the Duke of BUCCLEUCII in his address of last year made some sensible observations on this point. Mr. HERBERT SPENCER has said that if " religion and science are to be reconciled, the basis must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of facts, that the power which the universe manifests to us is utterly in scrutable." This admirable address may be con fidently recommended to the attentive perusal of all interested in matters beyond the common, and it will be found replete with elaborate research and condensed knowledge. VOICRESPONDENOR V10N3410. , 4 triton otra OWN 'CORIIESP*ONDXVIT, PARIS, WEDNESDAY, Augus A. "goring conflict has taken place near Macon betweeri some French and Piedmontese workmen. It appears that for some time past a deadly feud, arising out of some form of the trades-union question, has prevailed between the Working men of the two nations. A. few days ago an open quarrel broke out, caused by a violent assault com bitted by a Piedmontese miner upon a Frenchman of the saMi trade. An initiatory combat was ipeeally followed by more serious measures. The Ijsrett6ll inhabitants of Montceau-les-Mines, a village near Macon, where the quarrel began, all turned out, and Marched to another village named Alouette, where the Piedmontese miners chiefly resided. The houses were broken open and terrible excesses committed, one old man being dragged out of bed and almost killed. Many of the Pied montese miners were wounded, and the rest fled ; but still more serious consequences might have followed NO not a considerable body of soldiers arrived in time to prevent further mischief. Many arrests were made, though not without difficulty. Indeed, according to the local papers, the crowd which followed the prisoners was so violent that they had to be released and recaptured the next day by the troops. Several of the wounded Pied montese lie at the hospital in a dangerous state. A fresh outbreak is considered probable. .* troupe of thirty Abyssinians, who are described as the conledians and acrobats of King Theodore, have arrived here. Their performance is not very remarkable, and the Parisian public can form but a poor idea of the dramatic diversions of Ethiopia if the antics of this troupe, which are neither astonishing nor elegant, may be taken as a specimen. The triumphant election of M. Grtvy, the Opposition candidate for the department of the Jura, is still the theme of rejoicing on the part of the Liberal press. The lack of news at the present time may be the cause of this event receiving more attention than it is worth, but it is, nevertheless, an important victory. The result, I believe, has produced no little sensation in official quarters. The Administration took every pre caution to ensure a different result, and up to the last moment the official reports represented the victory as certain. The Opposition was discouraged by the recent election in the Gard, and the Government was propor tionately confident. Everything, in fact, seemed in favour of the latter and against the former. M. Grdvy, the successful candidate, is a politician of considerable repu tation. The Emperor will probably set out for the camp at Chalons on Saturday. The departure of his Majesty will be the signal for the exodus of all the diplomatists who remain in Paris, including Prince Metternich. Prince Napoleon is at Boulogne at present, whence he will shortly depart for Havre. Before his departure for the town on the Channel he visited the Emperor, for the first time since the return of the Prince from his European tour. The interview, say the gossips, was not very satisfactory. The Prince believes that the hope of stability for the Imperial regime consists in the development of Liberal ideas, or in putting a really finishing touch to the " edifice." But the Emperor gives no ear to these arguments. The good people of Havre greatly desire a visit from the Emperor, and a petition drawn up with that request has received 35,000 signatures. General Prim recently arrived at Vichy from England. His movements wero watched with great care by the police ; in fact, so eager were the officials in looking after him, that the sous-prefects of Boulogne and Havre announced that he had passed through both those towns. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Extreme S. E. S. W. N.N.E. B. S.W. N. s.s.w. w. s.w. N.N.W N. N.E. N.B. N.W. N.V. W. N,ll THE SUN, LONDON, Tfl URSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1868. N.W. S.S.E. S.E. N.N.E, N.E. S.S.E. N.W. N.N.E. N.N.E. N. N.E. N.W. S. k.W. N.N.W. N.W. THE FRENCH DEMANDS.- M. E. Girardin, in Tuesday's Liberte, puts for ward the ultimatum of France in the following de mands :—We demand that the work of 1829 should he resumed, and that negotiations should be opened with Prussia on this basis : Prussia to be allowed to incorporate the whole of the Saxon territory, as she has incorporated Hanover, under the condi tion that she will concur in and actively promote the formation of a Franco-German State, compre hending Belgium, Rhenish Holland, Rhenish Prussia, Rhenish Hesse, and Rhenish Bavaria, to be ruled over by the King of Saxony, under the title of " King of the Rhino country," or some such name. Again, France would have no objec tion that, instead of one kingdom of about 10,000,000 of people, there should be two— leaving the King of the Belgians as he is at pre sent with his 4,940,000 subjects, and creating a new kingdom of the Rhine lands with 4,534,000 inhabitants. In case Prussia should refuse to accede to this pacific arrangement, we demand that France should no longer hesitate in pushing the line of her actual frontier. We demand, in a word, what we last year called " our share of the river." THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER.—The llon. Reverdy Johnson, the new Minister Plenipotentiary from tho United States to the Court of St. James's, yesterday paid a visit to Mr. John Watkins at his photographic establishment in Parliament-street, when several highly successful portraits of his Excellency were taken. All receive with satisfaction the announcement, that in consequence of the Reduction in Duty, Horniman's Pure Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists, &c., in the provinces—supply Iforninuin'o Tea only in Packets. 30'00f 30'03f. 3;03f. 301 At 30'02r. 2911 r. 30'07r. 3019 f. MR. W. SCULLY AND HIS TENANTRY. The " lease " which, it is said, Mr. William Scully, of Ballycohey, wished his tenants to accept, and which, it is alleged, caused the ill-feeling that led to the outrage of Friday last, has seven conditions. The document, as printed by the Cork Examiner and other Irish journals, requires, first, that the tenants shall "pay the entire of all poor rates and county cess, and all other rates, taxes, duties, and assessments," and shall not be entitled to any reduction from the landlOrd in respect of such payment ; secondly, that the tenant shall not be entitled to emblements, or any customary, or way going, or other crop, or proportion of a crop, growing on the lands at the end of the tenancy, or to any compensation therefore ; thirdly, that the tenant shall quit the lands, leaving them in tenantable order, on the quarter-day next after the service of a twenty-one days' notice ; fourthly, that this notice shall be sufficiently served if posted on a conspicuous part of a dwelling-house on or adjacent to the farm ; fifthly, that the tenant shall not underlet, or devise the lands by will, without the landlord's consent in writing ; sixthly, that the tenant shall erect or make no building, hedge, ditch, fence, or drain, except with the landlord's authority in writing ; seventhly, that the tenant shall preserve game, and not break up, or change from grass, more than a certain proportion of the contents of the farm. The,tenant was also to be at liberty to surrender the lands on the nuarter•day after twenty-one days' notice. Mr. Vincent Scully writes to the Dublin Evening Mail protesting against the name of his brother being used in accounts of the Tipperary murder without the Christian name. Mr. Vincent Scully by no means wishes to be -con founded in any way with his brother William, and ho points out to the Mail that he (Vincent) is the head of his family. The Mail notes at tho end of the letter :—" No oneac quainted with Mr. Vincent Scully's character as a landford could have supposed that he was the gentleman referred to; but we feel obliged to him for correcting our unintentional omission." KEEPING A BODY SEVENTEEN DAYS. OnWednesdayDr. Bateson, the Medical Officer of Health for St. George's, Southwark, attended before the magis trate at the Southwark Police-court to obain an order for the removal of the corpse of a girl to the appointed mortuary of the parish, the parents refusing to bury it. Dr. Bateson said that on Tuesday his attention was called to a small house in Oakley-place, Upper Grange-road, Old Kent-road, where he found the corpse of a girl lying in a room inhabited by a family of poor people. The girl died on Sunday fortnight, and ever since had been lying in the same room where the family lived and slept. There were only two rooms in the house, and the other room was tenanted by a family whose lives were all endangered by the corpse being kept in the house. The magistrate made the order accordingly, and after con siderable difficulty the corpse was removed. It was under stood that the reason the parents kept the corpse so long was to get up a raffle to pay the expenses of the funeral and wake. FASTING UNTO DEATH. An inquiry has been held by Mr. W. Payne, the City coroner, at the Globe Tavern, Crutchedfriars, respecting the death, from exhaustion, of Mr. Henry Simon Lazarus, aged eighty-five years. Mrs. S. C. Barnett, daughter of the deceased, said that be was a commercial traveller, and be generally resides]. at Prestwich. He came up to town a few days ago. He was one of the Jewish persuasion, and was very orthodox. Notwithstanding his great ago he kept the fasts of his faith, never neglecting one of them, and observing them rigidly. On Sunday evening last he began a fast (the usual Jewish fast on the occasion of the now moon), which was to last for 24 hours, or rather more. He was suffering from pains in the chest, but he fasted just the same. On Monday he went to the synagogue and prayed. Witness believed, from what sho heard of his death during the afternoon, that he died from exhaustion from fasting. Robert Folgate, ticket-collector at the Fenchurch-street Station of the Blackwell Railway, said that at three o'clock on Monday afternoon the deceased came with a ticket for Bow, and had it clipped. Ho then went up the stairs, but he staggered and fell backwards, and rolled down eight steps. He was picked up dead, and he was removed to the clerks' office, and a doctor was sent for. Mr. Cyrus James, assistant to Dr. Sequiers, seid that the deceased died from apoplexy, brought on by exhaustion from fasting. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. THE BATTENING IN THE SCYTHE TRADE, In our Monday's impression we stated that four bands, worth £l.O, the property of Mr. S. Marshall, of the Globe Works, Shalesmoor, mysteriously disappeared on Thursday night from the Nether Cut Wheel on the Rivelin. The six scythe grinders who worked in the wheel for Mr Marshall were consequently thrown out of employment. The investigation concerning the missing bands was put into the hands of a detective, but it was soon thought that further search would prove useless, as the men had a strong belief that the whereabouts of the stolen articles could only be ascertained by referring to a certain quarter. A message was sent to the secretary of the Scythe Grinders' Union asking for a settle mentof the "affair." The committee of the union graciously acceded to the overture, and promised to receive a deputation of the men at the Waggon and Horses, Abbaydale-road, public-house where the committee usually assemble to de liberate. The injured grinders had no alternative but to pay or remain out of work, and they waited upon the committee on Monday night, and the result of their joint deliberations was made known after a good deal of private consultation on the part of the officials. It was agreed unanimously that the men were to have their bands back on condition that they paid the sum of o—including, of course, the expenses of "Mary Ann." The money has been paid. The way in which the bands are to be returned is the same as that practised by Broadhead : This morning, when the men go to theirhulls, they will receive a note in the usualway indicating whore the stolen bands may be found, and no one will be the wiser as to who placed them there. The men are very glad to have their bands back on any terms, and no doubt the fear of another visit from the nocturnal lady will make them more wary as to how they offend her by not contributing their quota of " natty " money.—Sheffield Daily Telegraph. THE NEW JUDGES.—Mr. Justice Brett, the newly-appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, attended on Wednesday at the judges' chambers and re ceived the congratulations of Mr. Justice 'Willes. The persons in attendance on summonses withdrew whilst the two judges remained in conference. THE NEW JUDICIAL OATII.—In the new Act just issued the following concise judicial oath is now to be taken by the new judges :—" I (giving the name) do swear that I will well and truly serve our sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the office of (repeating the name), and I wilt do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will. So help me God.* ORDNANCE SURVEY OF MOUNT S INAT. —Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir John Herschel, and Sir Henry James have consented to act as trustees of a fund which has been set on foot for the purpose of carrying out a survey of the peninsula of Mount Sinai, with a view to determine the line of march of the Israelites and the true lelQunta_ikalke_Law, LITERATURE. Miss Braddon's New Story. Dead Sea Fruit. By the Author of " Lady Audley's Secret." Three Vols. Ward, Lock, and Tyler. Miss Braddon's industry keeps pace with her in ventiveness, and neither appears in any way as yet to have outrun her popularity. So rapidly has she poured three-volumed novel after three-volumed novel from the press, that we must acknowledge to have long since lost our reckoning. Ranged Bide by side, her works would already fill a very long book-shelf. And, what is more remarkable than either the fecundity of her imagination or the energy with which her indefatigable pen has recorded her fluent and vivid fancies as they sprang into existence, is the undeniable fact that her books have been read far and wide by eager thousands, one by one, and as swiftly as they have been produced. Through the medium of the circulating libraries, from Mudie downwards, the original editions have been thumbed thread-bare, and others, of various forms and sizes one-volumed reprints, all of them—now a library edition in ribbed blue cloth, now a cheaper railway edition in gaudily coloured boards—have been issued, and bought up by ready purchasers for reperusal and for preservation after wards. Scarcely any reader of modern fiction is there, we should imagine, who has not long ago become perfectly well acquainted with the windings of the intricate plots constituting t'ae distinguishing glamour respectively of " Lady Audley's Secret," of " Aurora Floyd," of " Eleanor's Victory," of " Henry Dunbar," of "The Doctor's Wife," and of other less celebrated narratives from the same hand, down to the last completed twin stories--" Birds of Prey," and its sequel, " Charlotte's Inheritance." Hardly has the doubly-lengthy thread of that six-volumed tale been wound up and fairly completed, when another work, issued, in a manner, simultaneously with " Charlotte's Inheritance," is rapidly dashed off in instalments as a serial tale in Belgravia, and, so soon as brought to a close in that popular maga zine, collected into three volumes, and produced as a separate publication. " Dead Sea Fruit" is the title of it—Eustace Thorburn, a young poet, being the junior hero of the narrative, while the senior hero of it is the author of "Dion," and in a double sense of " Dion'sDisappointments"—to wit a hand some, blase, cold-hearted, selfish, cynical roué, by name Harold Jerninghani. As to the relationship in which these two stand towards each other, we shall say nothing further than that--" thereby hangs a tale." Upon the fact of that relationship the whole interest of the story hinges. Eliminate it—that is, that one secret—from the story, and the whole interest of the plot disappears instan taneously. The search after that one particular is at the heart of the whole narrative. It is the golden thread running deviously through it all. Take it away and the glitter and splendour of the whole will be found to have vanished. _ _ _ The story opens in the tranquil Belgian city of Vil lebrumeuse. There Eustace Thorburn is a tutor at a school. There he receives news, in chapter one, of the death of his widowed mother, the pathos of whose history, as Celia Mayfield, runs all through the book, suffusing it with a tender and graceful charm. Celia's brother, Eustace Thorburn's "Uncle Dan"—Daniel Mayfield—is one of the most effec tive characters in the narrative. He is a reputable sort of John Burley —a writer upon the London Press, with great parts, but with little or no care for the solid advancement of his reputation. A fellow of large heart and of some humour, devotedly attached to his nepbew, of whom he is overweeningly proud, and tenderly reminiscent of poor dead-and-gone Sissy or Cely—the Celia of the book—whose marred repute Daniel Mayfield is always burning to avenge. Through Uncle Dan's influence as a journalist and magazine contributor, Eustace, on quitting Belgium upon his mother's death, obtains, through Mr. Desmond, the Editor of the Areopagus, an engagement down in the country as Secretary to a gifted and gentle-hearted French exile, one Theodore de 113rgerae, wh) is engaged upon the production of a great literary work, to wit, " The History of Superstition," recalling to mind Austin Caxton's projected " History of Human Error,"—and who, in his widower-seclu sion, resides with his young slip of a daughter Helen, as the guest rather than the tenant, at Green lands, of Theodore de Bergerac's old friend, the fashionable, flighty, heartless, accomplished Harold Jerniugham. The darker side of Harold's cha racter is unknown to the innocent-minded Theo dore—who - sees his friend, and knows his friend only at his best. Harold Jerningham, it should be remarked, is living apart from his wife—this, quite courteously, if not, as one might almostsayamicably, by mutual agreement. Laurence Desmond, again, (already mentioned as editor of the Areopagus) is described as having been once (before her mar riage to Harold) an aspirant to the hand of Emily Jerningham. Between Mr. Desmond and Mrs. Jerningham there is maintained throughout the tale a platonic attachment amounting even to affec tionate intimacy, breathing rather of the spirit of dreamland than of reality. Desmond, in point of fact, wearies of this association—more particularly when he falls in love with Lucy Alford, otherwise Miss St. Albans, a young provincial actress, the only daugh ter of Laurence's Desmond's old University tutor or coach, Tristram Alford, now degenerated to a drunken hanger-on about the theatre in which his child earns a hard and precarious living for them both. There is a good deal of fun in the theatrical scenes here introduced, but we have had this often enough before —as, for example, in the immor tal Crummleses of " Nicholas Nickleby," and, still later, from the same master hand, in the outrageously ridiculous impersonation of Hamlet by Mr. Wopsle, as reeounted by Pip in " Great Expectations." Nevertheless, Mr. De Mortemar, as he is here depicted, is worth looking, at, and can certainly not be looked at, however cur sorily, without a laugh. Such are the materials out of which the story is worked up— and how cleverly, how ingeniously worked up those alone can say who have read the volumes through consecutively down to the very end of the third. For, there it is, in that third volume, but more particularly towards the close of it, that the artistic ability of Miss Braddon as a thoroughly skilled and practised novelist becomes the most signally manifesto]. The eclaircissement is admirably worked out. The terror awak ened by tho disappearance of Eustace Thor burn at the very climax of the story is power fully described. The storm, the rising tide, the wild and fruitless search, the seeming hopelessness of everything in regard to the young hero's fate, all are most powerfully and pathetically depicted. Then comes the discovery—the snatching of life out of the very jaws of death—the recog nition and the reconciliation of Eustace Thorburn and Harold Jerningham. If not the best (which we for one cannot venture to call it) " Dead Sea Fruit" is one among the best of Miss Braddon's later, and as some think happier, style as a writer of fiction. We say this, having a predilection ourselves for her earlier romances, re garding still, as we do, as among the most power ful works she has ever produced, " Lady Audley's Secret," " Aurora Floyd," and " Henry Dunbar." The Handy Volume Series. 1. Shirley Brooks' Gordian Knot. 2. William Shenstone's Men and Manners. 3. M. Betham Edwards' Doctor Jacob. Bradbury, Evans, and Co. Already, at the time of its commencement, when issued in a limp paper binding at half-a-crown, we have taken occasion in welcoming the reprint of Mr. Shirley Brooks' delightful story of 4 , The Gordian Knot," to speak in terms of high but eminently well-deserved commendation of the Handy Volume Series. Since then, two more in stalments of the same series of reprintslhave come to hand, together with another copy of the " Gordian Knot"—each volumette prettily bound in limp cloth of either cherry colour or apple green. William Shenstone's essays on " Men and Manners" consti tute the contents of the second volume, which will now, we doubt not, for the first time since they were written, popularise the prose effusions of an author hitherto exclusively known to the generality (and but slightly even in that capacity) as a poet. The third volume, as intimated in the heading to this brief additional notice of the Handy Volume Series so far as it has yet gone, is devoted to the reissuing, in a cheap and charming form, of one of the happiest productions of not the least successful among our female no velists, namely, the " Doctor Jacob" of Miss M. Betham Edwards. If the same care be evidenced in the selection of theworks thus honoured by being republished in a form so peculiarly attractive, The Handy Volume Series bids fair to beat all other com petitors out of the field as a railway library printed in exquisitely readable type, and fitted, by reason of its dainty size, for any one's pouch or pocket. Ten Thousand Wonderful Things. Edited by E. F. King, M.A. George Routledge and Sons. If amusement cannot be found in these 684 profusely illustrated pages, the reader must be dull indeed. For these " Ten Thousand Wonderful Things" comprise " whatever is Marvellous and Hare, Curious, Eccentric, and Extraordinary in all Ages and Nations"—the letterpress being 4 , En riched with Hundreds of Authentic Illustrations." The whole has been carefully edited and compiled by Mr. Edmund Fillingham King, a literary Master of Arts already honourably known as the biographer of Sir Isaac Newton. Curious antique watches—Magician's Mirrors—Monstrous Head Dresses—Distaffs—Timbrels—the Champion Figg with shaven pate - Coral Reefs - Somnambuliim —Sword Breakers— Pot Helmets—Origin of the Use of Tobacco—Loadstones—theae and a multi tude of other equally odd and diversified themes are here described and illustrated In a man ner at once the most whimsical and the most matter of fact. Mere fragments though these paragraph inscriptions are, each fragment is com plete in itself : and, besides, being invariably enter taining, both in subject and treatment, are often singularly instructive. Large though the aggre gate amount of reading here brought together from quarters the most remote, the book bears witness to a far larger amount of reading on the part of its industrious, or rather let us say, its inde fatigable compiler. It is a very treasury of valuable and out-of-the-way information—a re pertory of curious and eccentric knowledge. As a fantastic prose companion volume to the "Thou sand and One Gems of English Poetry," edited by Dr. Charles Mackay, already issued from the press by the same publishers, Mr. King's " Ten Thousand Wonderful Things" may be secure of what it most unquestionably deserves —an immediate and im mense circulation. ' -., r.. C. IL ilt• i..a... Court -----axiy,- A (illy* ' t .„.„....... ~..- HER MAJESTY. PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, August 17. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, made excursions in the neighbourhood and on the lake yesterday. Thursday, August 20, 8 a.m. Nairn . Aberdeen 1 Leith Shields Scarborough Yarmouth-1 Helder ....i Cuxhaven .. Bandanas Ardrossan Greencastle Holyhead Liverpool Valentia Cape Clear . Roche's Pt. Penzanc Plymouth Weymo uth Portemo uth London UpeGris Nez Brest L'Orient Rochefort Biarritz Corunna Brussels Paris Strasbourg Lyons Toulon .... Heart's Con-1 tent (6 a.m. , local time) EXPLANATION. Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg, a sea lerel. Theletter T., rising; f., falling; s., steady—indicate direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Weather : b.—blue sky ; c. — clouds , detached ; f.—fog ; h.—hail; I.—lightning ; m.—misty,hazy ; o. — overcast, dull ; r.—rain; s.— snow; t.—thunder. Rain fall. snow or ball (melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. The barometrical pressures over the northern and western portions of our islands are a little lower than yesterday, whilst in other dis tricts there has been a general increase, amounting to in: re than two-tenths of an inch on the Channel coast. The region of greatest pressure is in the S.IV. : readings are now very uniform. The charge in temperature has been slight. The wind yesterday was strong from the N. at the entrance of the Channel, and was generally fresh on other coasts. Light and variable winds prevail over these islands this morning : in the west of France the wind is strong from the westward. Eome rain has fallen in the south. In the N. the weather is fine, but on other coasts it is generally cloudy. The French staff officer who was recently arrested at Cologne for drawing plans and surveying the country round about, is not the only " artist " of the kind who has been found in Rhenish-Prussia. The German papers speak of the arrest of another French officer at Schliich tern, in the Electorate of Hesse. A number of plans and maps was found upon him. He replied to the interro gations of his captors that be was really an artist, and that he was travelling for his own pleasure. The authorities of Schliichtern asked for instructions from Cassel and Berlin, and were told to set the officer at liberty, on con dition that he immediately returned to France. A letter from Kisscngen to the Libcrte combats the idea of an alliance between Russia and Prussia. The writer says that Prussian politicians are too anxious to get pos session of the German provinces annexed to Russia to desire very friendly terms with that country. Further, the King of Prussia is much opposed to the marriage of the daughter of the Emperor Alexander to the young King of Bavaria. On the other hand, Russian diploma tists are disquieted at the evident desire of Prussia to rule the Baltic, and are convinced that Russia would err in favouring the designs of such a powerful neighbour. If the Borsenhalle of Hamburg is to be believed, the recent visit was a surprise to the Russian sovereign, " who did not know the King of Prussia was coming until the carriage drove up to the hotel." The visit lasted some three-quarters of an hour. The Hamburg paper appears to entertain some curious ideas of royal etiquette. A correspondent of the Independence Beige says the Baden Government has abandoned its resistance to the scheme of a system of common defence for the three States of South Germany, and there can be no doubt of the realisation of the project. The system will, as was expected, be on the same principle as that adopted in North Germany, and the three Southern States will, indeed, form but a portion of the great military union under the leadership of Prussia. Count Bismarck, it appears, has gained the victory in this as in every other struggle. The Prussian general, Beyer, who is Minister of War in Baden, has gone to Ems to "receive King William's orders on this matter." In the political circles of Madrid it is considered probable that an interview will shortly take place between the Emperor Napoleon and the Queen of Spain. No date is assigned for this meeting, but it is thought that it will be arranged when the two monarchs go to the seaside—the Emperor to Biarritz, and the Queen to Laqueitio. Notwithstanding the passage of the Bribery Act, mon.l , will be of great weight in the general election. Political prophets say that the next Parliament will be essentially one of moneyed men. Capitalists elected by, and representing labour, will, it is said, have the control of our legislation. Supposing this estimate of coming events be a correct one, there arises the difficult question of what effect such an arrangement would have with regard to the great questions of capital and labour now being agitated. That " £ s. d." are still letters which we must connect very closely with electioneering proceedings, the following advertisement, for the bona fides of which Echoes from the Clubs is responsible, will skew :—" Parlia inent.—A candidate of independent and advanced Liberal views may hear of an eligible chance by addressing real name, in confidence, to Agent, Meadows's Library, Aleiander•place, Brompton, S. W." " Ex-Candidate," in a letterto the Times, draws attention to another matter which requires consideration with regard to the elections. He protests that canvassing is a " vulgar, unnecessary performance, utterly unworthy of any man who ought to have a seat in the House of Commons." Canvassing is, doubtless, the cause of bribery. It hardly enhances the dignity of a candidate to go soliciting and begging from A, B, and C their votes. But it would be difficult to stop it altogether, except by the common con. sent of aspirants for parliamentary hoauri. Let it be felt 'tbat a man loses respect by going from bo4se to house ijA' Nad. 421Y44,§i11g bisat an !o'o2l 10'05 3 4918 C.EfT7I3OII IN THE COLONIES. orqe serios prehensionsare beginning tote entertained '!tdengst Churchmen who are interested in the question of the Church in the Colonies, in connexion with the present tXtraordinarY state of the colonial episcopate. Several tnonths ago the Bishop 01 Mauritius (Dr. Ryan) arrived in pis country and resigned his see, since which time he has pen appointed to the archdeaconry of Suffolk and the rectory Of Thwaite St. George, in the diocese of Norwich. Nearly a hyear since Dr. WDougall, Bishop of Labuati, came to Eng andl resigned his see, and has been presented by the Dean and Canons of Westminster to the vicarage of Godmanches ter. Nothing is said about the appointment of a bishop to either of these sees, which are left altogether without epis copal superintendence. Again, many months ago, Dr Hard ing, Bishop of Bombay, came to England and resigned his see, which has now been for a very long time without an episcopal head. Some of the Church papers state that Sir Stafford Northcote, the Secretary for India in Council, has offered the bishoprio to Mr. Douglas, Dean of Cape Town ; but the statement has received no official confirmation. In New Zealand the principal bishopric is vacant by the promotion of Dr. Selwyn to the bishopric of Lichfiold. Bishop Selwyn has gone out to New Zealand to endeavour to make arrangements for a successor; but it is supposA. he will have very considetablo difficulty, inasmuch as with the termination of his tenure of the bishopric all endowment ceased. Tho New Zealand bishopric of Dunedin (Otago) is also practically vacant, for although Dr. Jenner was conse crated to the bishopric in 1866, he has not yet left England to assume his episcopal duties. The bishopric of Grafton and Armadale, which became vacant by the unhappy death by drowning of Bishop Sawyer, has not yet been filled up, and the diocese is in pretty much the same state as it was before Dr. Sawyer went out. Dr. Parry, Bishop of Bar badoes, is said either to 'hay.) resigned or to be making arrangements for the administration of his diocese by a coadjutor, while the Bishop of Jam'aicA has for a long series of years been in England, his diocese being administered by the Bishop of Kingston. The Bishop of the Australian diocese of Perth and the Bishop of Honolulu are both in England. r 0*321 3 $3•191- R. Ito 19 -12 - 1 2 7 I 4 7 I 5 LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SWITZERLAND. BERNE, August 20. Her Majesty Queen Victoria has, through the English Minister here, expressed her thanks to the Federal Council for the cordial reception she has met with in Switzerland. FRANCE. The Prussian Moniteur publishes the subjoined: —" The King having terminated his course of treatment, left Coblentz for Schwalbach to meet the Emperor of Russia, who had come there from Kissingen, and who was to remain four and twenty hours near the young Grand Duchess, now residing there. The King arrived at five o'clock and alighted at the Hotel Allee-Saal, where the .Em peror immediately joined him. After half an hour's conversation the two Sovereigns proceeded on foot to visit the Grand Duchess. The sing returned at six, and then proceeded to the railway station to take the train back to Coblentz." The Emperor of Russia, who is now at Kissingen, i° said to have expressed to several persons on his re turn the great satisfaction which he felt at the nature of the conference with the King of Prussia. " A singular entertainment, almost approaching the grotesque," says the Gazette de France, "w°" s offered to the King of Prussia• lately on his visit to Wiesbaden. On a small islet in the Rhine wa s constructed in wood work a grand portico, semi" circular, supposed to represent Olympus, and arti 3 ' tically ornamented with the statues of all the &vi a nities. The tallest men of the regiment Wer e selected to personate these gods and goddesses' They were clothed in white drapery, strongli starched, so as to imitate the rigid appearance of marble ; then each, having his face covered wit h white paint, was raised upon his pedestal. On .0 1 right of all was posted a colossal sub-commission al officer, charged with the preservation of order. ge cried out Steady !' to the divinities, whenever the Royal steamer came in view. Strict prohibition was pronounced against liquors being served to the statues during the fete." A telegram from Prague, in the:Press of:Vienna, says :—" The town of Badweis is in flames by th e act of an incendiary. The fire broke out this afternoon in the Brain-gasse. The post-office an d the court-house and fifty houses have lieee destroyed. At eight this evening (August 14) lye, learn that the conflagration has been got under. The Pays has the subjoined : —" The 12th nun" ber of the Lanterne, which was to have bee° published in Paris, has appeared only in Belgian' and we learn that it has been stopped at the frOr tier. This issue contains, it is said, outrage° against the Empress, which is conduct quite con; sistent on the part of the man who insulted th memory of Marie-Antoinette and Joan of Ar e : However, we suppose that M. Rochefort has not read the law respecting offences committed abroad _ by French citizens, for that measure oblite rate ! frontiers. Consequently, if this number of 01 : Lanterne contains a violation of the statute, i t ea ... be prosecuted in Paris although published Belgium." A singular conflict has just arisen between l b° , town of Mulhausen and the presbyteral council 01 the Reformed religion there. The new Germs' church, built on the site of the former edifi ce ; some time back received bells from the foundry M. Keller, of Zurich, while those of the old h e ' ll fry, which is still standing, were to be taken de ll and removed to the Catholic Church of St. ge l l. f ." with the exception of one intended for the VPi r testant building. At the last moment, howa_; the council of the German presbytery formed .e a d opposition to the removal of the bells, and err 13t the affair before one of the tribunals. 10 , 1 io awaiting a decision on the question of owner e ":a the objects in dispute have been sequestrated 3', confided to the charge of a person appointed DJ the Court. B o uese, August 19 .—Th ree o'clock.—The mar ket closed as follows : 41 per Cont. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7O 60 Credit Mobilior 282 End of month 285 Credit Fonder _lll3 End of month.— Bank Shares ...... 3145 Hr. - Fan Loan ...... End of month... „, Mexican Loan ... Do. Bonds ...... 15 Spanish Threes ... Home Debt...... —, Deferred ...... Cash Orleans . .... 895 Northern 11 66 Lyons and Mediterranean S o u them... • 578 Western 563 Eastern • • Sardinian 542 Austrian 406 Lombard North of Spain 52 63 Saragossa Boman RAILWAYS. b.Col 0.o.! o.f. b.f. b.f.,