The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-07 00:00:00

BETRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review remarks that before another week is tone this Parliament will be a thing of the past. And now that its days are over, how are we to speak of it, and how may we expect that history will speak of it here after? In some respects it was by no means a bad Par liament ; in one or two points, and especially in its liberality in religious matters, and in its anxiety to be just and moderate towards foreign nations, it was one of the very best Parliaments that ever sat in England. Scarcely any Parliament, on the other hand, ever gave more cause for anxiety and regret than this Parliament did in the course it took, and the scenes it allowed, during the passing of the Reform Bills in 'the two last sessions. Born to love Lord Palmerston, it lived to hate Mr. Glad stone. Thus, tossed on a sea of perpetual sea of agitation, with no convictions, no belief in the guidance and leader ship of any one, and burning - with personal jealousies and enmities, it suffered itself to be led through the curious manceuvres which ended in passing the Reform Bills for the three kingdoms. It is now use now recalling the lamentable outbursts of bad feeling and bad manners which came from both sides equally during the last two sessions ; but we may be rejoiced that the Parliament that witnessed and in a manner sanc tioned them Is now on the point of dissolution. Will the next Parliament be very unlike the expiring Parliament, and, if so, how far will the difference be owing to the Reform Bill ? So far as we can now see, it will be different in two respects ; it will approach the sub ject of the Irish Church with confidence and firmness, because it will have the nation with it, although it will approach it with tenderness for those affected by its legislation. The new Parliament will differ from the pre sent one in its willingness to obey Mr. Gladstone, and in the cohesion of the majority. This majority may, as san guine Conservatives hope, be broken up, but it will be incomparably harder to break it np than it -has been to break up the majority elected to support Lord Palmerston. But this change is the fruit of a very natural reaction against the proceedings of the present Parliament. Every one who knew anything of the provinces knew months ago that the popularity of Mr. Gladstone in the country was far greater than any popularity he ever possessed in London and in the House of Commons; and at the very moment when the present House was raging with bitter ness and spite against him, the local Liberal agents were perfectly aware that their candidates could do nothing with the electors unless they would promise to stick by Mr. Gladstone. Our contemporary ridicules the Whiggery represented by the Edinburgh Review, which will not object to the destruction of hares and rabbits, if the game laws are not further discussed. The great duty of the new Parliament will be to turn out the friends of the Quarterly and adopt the policy of the enlightened Whigs. The Spectator is , severe upon the Liberal party for their treatment of Mr. Udger. We feel the more strongly upon the point of this mischievous pseudo-Liberal dandyism because we are sure that not only is the nation losing a great opportunity, but the Liberals are gravely injuring their prospects with the bulk Of the new electors by this Purblind policy of snubbing the working men and paying oneisance to wealth and titles for their own sakes. The Conservatives already see the blunder, and are doing all in their power to irritate the working class against the impertinent Liberalism which implores their votes but will not so much as touch one of their own candidates with the tongs. The Conservatives, fur their part, are welcoming " the Conservative working man," doing their best to make much of him, and it may be even flattering him with very questionable taste. We may be sure of this, that if the Liberals of the middle class hold aloof from the new electors in that spirit of petty social aristocracy which some of their public instructors strive to inculcate, the Conservatives will soon outbid them, as they are already striving to do. Nor will it be by any means without precedent for the Conservatives to take a more generous line in social policy than the Liberals. On the Ten Hours Bill everyone admits that the Conservatives were ahead of their opponents, and that they then initiated a Reform which has had a more bene ficial influence on the life of the working class than any reform of recent years, except the abolition of the protec tive system. For the present, the immeasurable services of Mr. Gladstone, and his great genius for the whole class of social reforms, has restored the Liberal party to its proper influence over the working class. The day may come, as it has come in times past, when those who boast of beihg the foremost in pqLitical progress, may lose, by their own act, the sympathy of the greater half of the nation, and shew neither the willnor the power to lead the claimants of social reforms. The Imperial Review says the friend of Odger and the wopshipper of Bradlaugh has at length arrived at West in/eater ; but we doubt if Mr. Mill has gained anything by the journey except the discovery that he might just as well have remained at Avignon. We would suggest to him that, though he is far too behindhand to supplant Mr. Smith, it is by no means too late to seem to prove the sincerity of his letter to Mr. Bouverie by making way fir the great uncomprehended Chadwick. It is only too plain that Mr. Mill will have to follow Mr. Odger into 'private life. We long ago foretold this last gentleman's fate, though we certainly were not prepared for the fefinement of hypocrisy which is causing the various Liberal organs, now that they have got rid of him at Chelsea, to speak of him in such flattering terms. Having kicked him down stairs, they no longer find it necessary to dissemble their love ; and as he has now got only the key of the street, they overwhelm him with out-of-door attentions. One of them suggests that he should be put up for Greenwich ; but as two Conserva tives, and one of them no less redoubtable a candidate than Lord Mahon, have just come forward for the borough, it is trying Mr. Odger's simplicity, already rudely shaken, rather too far to ask him to accept the suggestion as a proof of undiminished concern for his interests. The London Review says that amongst the many things which have not changed in England since 1838 is the rooted aversion to the ballot which prevails amongst what may still be called the ruling classes. The case of household suffrage proves how easily, under certain circumstances, that aversion might be overcome ; but at present it exists. To some slight extent it is based on the idea that the ballot is un-English, and on the presumption that it would lead to lying. But these grounds 'would soon disappear if the ballot were not now, as in 1838, taken to he typical of greater changes. Our own opinion is that the ballot would not specially facilitate revolutionary change or greatly accelerate the national progress; we believe the evils it would correct do not materially affect the balance of affairs, as they mainly appertain to the moral aspect of politics ; but the oppo nents of the ballot think it would lead to something very dreadful. By withholding it, therefore, on that ground they are avowedly placing an indirect and disingenuous check on the free Parliamentary declaration of the opinions of the commonalty. The friends of the ballot have never discovered an argument more powerful than that which is thus fairly deducible from the conduct of its enemies. The London Review holds that the franchise is a trust, like life and health ; at the same time it is a right, and the right to vote freely does not conflict with the trust. Mr. Lytton Bulwer argued that free suffrage was not only a political, but a moral and religious right, and that nothing could secure it but secret voting. If Lord Lytton be of a different opinion, he is less cogent and im pressive than in his Radical days. Intimidation does not work so much mischief politically as morally. The prognostications of well-informed people in Ireland fore tell scenes of the grossest intimidation and violence—scene: which the ballot has suppressed in every country where it has been adopted. And in England, with a difference, the same evils will prevail. The ballot alone can cure them. Let the electors pledge as many candidates a 3 possible to its adoption in the new Parliament. And let electors and candidates alike watch the incidents of the election, in.prder to arrive at a sound conclusion as to whethensthe responsibility of maintaining "public voting, which drives the elector into the wiong way against his will," can any longer be undertaken by any enlightened man intent upon the well-being of his country. The John Bull says, if Arr. Disraeli would, in the highest appointment now -vacant, take the bold course, and recommend to the Queen the prelate who, whether he is nominally archbishop or not, is and will he so practically, whose popularity among the working classes and Dis senters alike has been manifested this week in such Low Church strongholds as Liverpool and Hull, and would transfer to Oxford the bold archdeacon who is loved by all who know him, and who won the hearts of every Evangelical at Dublin—(and any chance of Dean Stanley being pressed by her Majesty is surely out of the question after his letter in favour of Mr. Mill)—he would have not only the testimony of his conscience that lie has done what was right, but he would be surprised to find how popular he would become, Puritan and infidel growling notwith- standing, while the English people would be equally sur Prised to find how sober and discreet an archbishop was 'Wilberforce, and how fair and liberal-minded a prelate IN as Denison. UNINTItgITY OF EDISBUROII.—A ecsting of Sal dents Opposed to the return of Mr. Moncreiff, or any political candidate for the office of Lord Rector, was held on Thursday evening. The chairman stated that 230 votes bad been recorded in favour of Mr. Tennyson, who had, however, courteously declined to be put forward as a c ndidate. Several gentlemen were then nominate(' as opponents to Mr. Moncreiff, including Lord Lytton, Sir Poderick Murchison, Mr. John Ruskin, and Mr. Lowe, M.P. A show of hands was taken, when Mr. Ruskin and Mr. Lowe had the ;.;r:at -, :,:t uuraer of votes THE BISHOP OF DUNEDIN ON THE BEAZ PRESENCE. The Leicester Journal reports a sermon by the Bishop of Dunedin a day or two since, on the occasion of "an inaugural service " in connection with the English Church Union at St. Margaret's, Leicester. The Bishop, comparing the Evangelical and Catholic movements in the Church, said that to the clergy who headed the Evangelical movement belonged the honour of having revived in the English Church a deep and true yearning after their Saviour and God. "But," he added, "the views of those who took part in the Evangelical movement with regard to the truth were partial, sometimes even distorted. The Church's claims, for instance, were almost entirely lost sight of. The Sacraments and Sacramental ordinances, public offices of the Church, and indeed all outward forms of religion, were depreciated. The Evangelical movement taught men to seek for Christ. The Catholic movement teaches them where to find Christ—teaches them to find Him in the Blessed Sacrament of His own Body. No longer do we speak as if the presence of Christ was a mere figure of speech, a matter depending on the warmth of our feelings, or the strength of our conviction. We have got beyond that. We have been taught by the Church our mother, whose voice we have learned to respect, what the Incarnation really is, and how that wondrous mystery is brought near to us day after day through the media of the sacraments. We know, as they know who went before us, how that Christ suffered for us, and that on this great atonement long ago wrought all our hopes of heaven depend. But we have learnt, by God's mercy, what they missed, or at any rate imperfectly grasped, viz., how that great atonement is made available for our salvation. We know in whose blood we were washed in holy baptism ; we know whose pierced hands were laid on us at confirma tion, and who offered Himself for us and gives Himself to us in the holy Eucharist. We know that it is our dear Lord's own personal presence, that it is His own work in His Church, with which He has promised to be to the end of the world, that is producing such wondrous effects around us. All the signs of life that have been of late so manifestly exhibited lye have learnt to attribute to that Presence ; all our hopes for the future we know are and must be founded on the continuance of that Presence." THE BRIBERS AND THE BRIBED, With the admirable intent of frightening the electors from accepting bribes in the coming election, the Tele graph publishes a résumé of the Bribery Bill of last session. It points out, in the first place, that the machinery for discovering _bribery has been entirely altered. Formerly the offence was committed without much hesitation, not so much because the penalties were light, as because the chance of escaping detection was great. Committees of the House of Commons were actuated by a certain amount of sympathy even for an unseated candidate, and they always reported that he had no guilty knowledge of corrupt practices committed in his name. But now the trial is to take place before judges of the superior courts men thoroughly well versed in the art of sifting grains of truth from heaps of falsehood, and skilful in detecting attempts to defeat justice. Parliamentary agents were accustomed to make mutual concessions, by which prosecutions of the worst cases were abandoned. A Tory briber in Essex would be paired off against a Whig malefactor in Yorkshire. These convenient arrangements will now cease. For the future, a petition, once presented, cannot be withdrawn without the leave of a judge ; and before he gives his consent he must be satisfied that the withdrawal is not induced by any corrupt bargain or consideration. The most severe and stringent clauses of the Act are those which impose penalties for bribery. If a judge finds that the offence has been committed " with the knowledge and consent of a candidate at an election," the candidate is subjected to the following disqualifications for seven years :—He cannot sit in the House of Commons. He is incapable of being an elector any where. He cannot hold any municipal office in a borough. He cannot hold any judicial office, or act as a justice of the peace. It is not only required that the can didate should abstain from corrupt acts, but must also hold himself aloof from corrupt instruments. His election will be rendered void by the employment of any person as canvasser or agent who has within seven years previously been convicted of bribery. The receivers of bribes are under this Act liable to the same penalties as the givers of bribes dis qualification for sitting in Parliament, voting at elections, or holding municipal or judicial offices. The Judge who tries an election petition is required to report the names of all persons " who have been proved to have been guilty of any corrupt practice." This report is, under the late Act, and another of 1863, required to be laid before the Attorney• General, " with a view to his instituting a prosecution against such persons, if the evidence should in his opinion be sufficient to support a prosecution." It may be presumed that the Attorney• General will usually give credit to the reports of the judges, and that the evidence which satisfies them will satisfy him as to the propriety of prosecutino the persons accused. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH.-Mr. Bright has sent the following letter to an elector for Lambeth :—" I have no right to interfere in your election, and my individual opinion can be of no importance. If I were an elector of Lambeth I should vote for Mr. M'Arthur and Mr. Lawrence, and I should regard any new candidate offering himself as an inju dicious friend, if not an open enemy, of the Liberal cause." CITY OF LONDON.—At a meeting held in favour of the Liberal candidates, the chairman stated that the result of the;canvasshad been such as to warrant him in saying that the return of the four Liberal candidates was placed beyond a doubt. MIDDLESEX.—Lord George Hamilton, son of the Duke of Abercorn, has issued an address in the Conservative interest. The sitting Liberal members are Lord Enfield and Mr. Labouchere. NOTTINGHAM.—A coalition has been arranged between Messrs. Seely and Claydon, and their committees will now carry on the contest jointly, as against both Mr. Osborne and Mr. Marten. WEYMOUTH.—Mr. Brooks, the Conservative sitting member, has retired from the contest, some difference of opinion having arisen between him and the leaders of the party as to having a second Conservative candidate in the field, as against Messrs. Edwards and Powell, Liberals. A Conservative meeting has been held, and Mr. C. J. T. Hambro has been unanimously received as the Conserva- tive candidate. LEICESTER.-1t is stated that Mr. Baker Greene, bar rister-at-law, will come forward as a third Liberal candi date. The sitting members are Mr. Taylor and Mr. Harris. GREENWICH.-Mr. James Soames, of Greenwich, has come forward in the Liberal interest, feeling certain that, by the success of Mr. Gladstone in Lancashire, there will be a vacancy in the representation of Green with. YORK.—Mr. Marcus Meryweather Turner, the third candidate in the Liberal interest, has tendered his resig nation to his committee, and urged them to give their support to the two other Liberal candidates, Messrs. Westhead and J. H. Gladstone. The Roman Catholic electors have decided to support the Liberals. SOUTH DEVON.— Lord Amberley addressed a crowded meeting on Thursday afternoon at Plymouth, dwelling on education, university tests, Irish Church, religious equality, national expenditure, rating, and other subjects. The meeting was unanimous. A vote of confidence was carried. The Liberals are confident of a great victory. Emma Baker, the actress, who was placed in charge of Lady Annie Benson's house, and while there committed extensive robberies,was sentenced yesterday at the Middlesex Sessions to five years' i enal servitude. A man named Cross, an accomplice, has hard labour for nine months. It is said that the Government have requested Dr. Ball, the Solicitor-General, who is also the Primate's Vicar- General and Queen's Advocate, and Dr. Dodd, Vicar-Gene ral of Derry, to give their opinion as to the requisite forma lities for assembling the Convocation of the Irish Church ; and it is not improbable that, after being dormant for a cen tury and a half, the Irish Convocation may be revived con currently with the meeting of the new Parliament. The Bishop elect of Peterborough (Dr. Magee) has appointed the Very Rev. Dr. J. C. Macdonnell, Dean of Cashel, to be the preacher at his consecration, which cere mony will take place in Whitehall Chapel, either on Sunday, the 15th inst., or Sunday, tie 23d inst. The tiliciating pre lates will be the An hbishop of York, the Bishop of Lon don, and t' o Bishop of Oxford. It is rot announced vlt her the three otlo r Lishops— Ilombi,y, Grafton, an , ' Maritsburg—will be consecrated at the same time. Tlicu;2li Oxford this year was quiet and the "town. L ai pily did not offer resit. tance to the "gown," such was not the case at Exeter. ThLre the riots of last 3-, ar were repeated. A huge bonfire was lighted in the Cathedral yard, and there was a display of fireworks. "Young Exeter" was docked out in gorgeous costume, and there was P. scene of the wildest excitement. The banks and other public buildings in the Cathedral yard were barricaded. The authorities have hitherto been unable to put down the Guy Faux brations, which have been so often condemned by the judges of assize visiting Exeter, especially as they take place in the very heart of the city, muck to the annoyance and in jr7 of tip.) j üblic .LO.NDO.N, SAIVRDAY EVhikTINO, NOVEMBER 7, FOREIGN N THE SUN, MR JOHNSON ON THE NEGRO* Arr. Johnson has once again been speaking. The Freedman's Aid Union waited upon him with an address, expressing the gratification of the society at the abolition of slavery throughout the Union, and their hope that Mr. Johnson's mission in this country might be in every sense successful. His Excellency, in replying, said, slavery was inconsistent with the happiness of people and nations. It had no foundation in morality and less in Christianity. A slave could hardly be said to be half a man. If his body did not dwindle, his mind dwindled, and his heart became ossified, and the same influence, more or less, was brought to bear injuriously upon the master. Of course there were exceptions to be found in every country where there were classes of servitude and of masters. He thought he was not mistaken in saying that but for the invention of the cotton jenny (an invention of a Northerner, they must remember), which incalculably increased the wealth of the South, and from its having afterwards become a topic of political controversy, slavery would not have been abolished with the occurrence of that dire calamity through which they had just passed. But the increase of the wealth of the South gave to the labour of the slave a value which it did not before possess, and the master at last thought that his real worth was in the man he thought he had the right to control. The masters in the South then did what most of them thought they had a right to do—seceded from the Union ; but for what purpose ? For the purpose of perpetuating slavery, and establishing a government which they wished to call free, which had foundation on slavery, and which therefore was certain to fall to destruction. It would be almost impossible for those present to realise the sadness of the struggle ; reading the accounts would give them but little knowledge of its actual results. Let them travel through the South and see the ravages of the war, the desolation of the homes, the badges of mourning which were to be found in every house hold ; the refined woman obliged to resort to labour for the purpose of supporting herself and her children; and then, having done that, let them look at the graves, the millions of graves which were to be found in every Southern State. He thanked God that none were to be found in any of the Northern States. He was a Southerner, and lived in a State where the slave popula tion outnumbered at one time the whites, and where at the beginning of the late war they numbered some 75,000, in addition to the free blacks, who were some 80,000. Their domestic and agricultural servants were all slaves, and he had been brought into connection with hun dreds and thousands of them. He had defended over and over again those who supposed themselves entitled to freedom. From the experience he had had of them he believed they were as capable of receiving education as the whites, but, of course there were differences amongst all classes of people. Every lawyer could not he a Mans field, nor every member of the House of Commons a Wilberforce. He concluded as follows: " I know I can assure you that during my residence amongst you—happy from the first, getting happier every day, and never more happy than now—l shall so conduct the duties of my mission as to satisfy you that in heart, soul, and mind, I feel upon the great subject which has interested you pre cisely as you do." AMERIOA. TES. The Democrats have secured one great advantage at the present crisis. They have lost the Presidential election, and their opponents have been strengthened in the Senate, but in the Howe of Representatives the Democratic party has materially gained. The Repub• licans have lost the two•thirds majority by which they were enabled to pass their measures over President Johnson's veto, and nullify his opposition to the Reconstruction policy. This is a most important success on the part of the DemOcrats. Had Mr. Johnson remained in power, the result would have been, very likely, an ulti mate renewal of the civil war. He would have vetoed the measures of the Republicans, and their majority would not now be sufficient to render his oppo. sition unavailing. Under General Grant there can be no danger of this kind. The Republicans have still the majority, and they will be supported by the Pre sident. But their opponents will not be reduced to that condition of political nullity which would have been the result had the House of Representatives remained unchanged ; and this is well, for the destruction of the opposition can never be to the advantage of any nation where party government prevails. It is announced that three States—Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia have not voted. These have not abstained of their own choice ; they were not allowed to vote. Their local legislatures have not ratified the amendment to the constitution of the United States, establishing equality of rights between all citizens whatever may be their race. Having failed to comply with this sine gull non, they were not permitted to take part in the election. BANK OF FRANCE. 1,)"... 68. PARIS, Noy. O. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Oct. 29. Nov. 5. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro- perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Bank notes to order and receipts payable at sight. 33,400,569 27 33,895,418 18 Treasury account cur rent creditor 194,920,407 79 184,645,016 44 Current accounts, Paris 293,072,015 99 283,221,434 22 Do. branch banks 51,999,971 53,017,029 Dividends payablo 981,372 939,177 Discounts and sundry interests t • 5,304,223 17 5,752,777 61 Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed - - Sundries Total CREDITOR. Oct. 29. Nov. 5. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due 241,985,509 11 242,953,281 47 Do. branch banks 212,554,093 226,259,883 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks 9,353,100 9,338,800 Do. on French Public Securities 12,037,200 12,519,800 Do. by branch banks 7,600,200 7,606,800 Do. on railway shares and debentures - 36,209, 00 Do. branch banks - 28,502,100 Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re- serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisees - ...... (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Rotel and furniture of the 13:silk and landed propel '6y branches 9,035,706 9,039,206 - Expenses of manage ment 9,035,706 2,159,080 34 Sundries Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) ROULAND. CORI?ESPONDENTS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) George Prentice, well known as a political writer and by his connection with the Louisville Journal, has been victimised to supply spicy intelligence to aspiring correspondents. Ile was selected because his name was familiar, and the correspondent knew that anything sensational about him would be quoted everywhere, not only in America, but here. So it duly appeared that George Prentice was poor and old, a broken-down, incurable drunkard, dismissed from the paper which had employed him, and aban doned by his friends. All sighed over the fate of the clever but incorrigible George ; every American newspaper told the same tale, and every correspon dent picked up and spread abroad the moral of the literary break down. It appears, however, that the story is due to a system of pure fabrication, which ought not only to be condemned, but punished, as impunity helps its growing dimensions in America. The habit of inventing conversations with prominent men is bad enough, and those who undertake to lead in politics make up their minds for slander and vituperation ; but the manufacture of letters from them is even worse. The system we allude to somewhat resembles Burke's, who took a live subject and made him into a dead one when the inducement from the dissecting room offered ; so correspondents who have no news, and cannot fabricate, pick up instead, the scandal .floating against a private but well-known person. Such reporters, except at some focus of news, or where grand events are occurring, ate out of place, and even in such centres often become wearisome from their verbose efforts to fill long columns with the matter it is their business to supply. In England, as regards Spain at least, we have had correspondence enough to last for a long time. We would as soon have to choose between "the poison and the dagger" as between Gladstone's speeches and the Madrid correspondents' letters. It is sad to see what the London dailies are reduced to, and we even hope that the twaddle talked in Parliament may soon come to the rescue. It is our belief that the right hon. gentleman and the correspondents might have said all they had to say in one column out of the scores they have already filled ; and the value of some of the letters may be guessed when the writer supplying a leading London daily with in formation, does not know one word of Spanish, though be is employed to gather news of what tran s spires in Madrid. That his communications con tain errors may be imagined, and the best evidence that they do, is to be found in the pages of the paper to which we allude. Mistaking an agitation for the freedom of worship for one in favour of free culti vation of the soil, he wrote a glowing account of the movement to the editor, who commented fully on the wise course taken by the Junta, and the benefits the agricultural community were to derive. A gen tleman qualified to report as a correspondent the progress of the Abyssinian expedition might feel figuratively and literally that he was " abroad" when thrown, in ignorance of the language, the habits of people, and with little knowledge of their history, into Madrid. What surprises those who meet these writers is that they can so ably perform the service required—that is, to fill a certain num ber of pages, disguising a real ignorance of the subjects written about. The most helpless indivi dual we ever met was a Times correspondent in Scinde. He knew nothing of the language, the manners, and customs of the people, nor was he possessed of any powers whatever of accommodating himself to the strange circum stances. Had it not been for a well-known officer of the Bombay Army who looked after him, he might have been carried into Affghanistan and sold as a slave, if—an improbable contingency--any one had considered him worth buying. As it was, he was trotted all over the country, and was picked up utterly exhausted where he had been abandoned by the natives, who thought him rather a vicious fool. Every one marvelled what the 7 lines meant by sending such a thing to report on a wild frontier, and only knew, when the letters on the subject came back in its columns. How the man got his infor mation remained the mystery, for he asked no questions, and did nothing but grumble about his servants and food, went nowhere—after his invo luntary expedition into:the wilderness—and got out of the country as rapidly as possible, which was wise on his part, as it is, in truth, a vile place. He must have dreamt it all, but if so it was a wonder ful vision, for it contained a full, true, and lucid account of the frontier Provinces, extending from the Punjaub to the sea. Men imagine a sort of walk ing encyclopmlia in a correspondent, and consider him an imposition when he does not come up to this description, but, more than anything, a correspon dent should be a ready writer, who sees what other people see too, but do not note, and are surprised at not noting, on reading the correspondent's letter. It is in this that Russell excels, and no man can be a picture-writer who has not such a qualification. Correspondents of late years have become persons of the greatest importance where revolutions or campaigns are progressing, and there is a ten leucy to flatter on the part of the commanders and to mislead, out of pure mischief, on the p trt of the juniors. Indeed it is no easy task for the corre spondent justly to discriminate, between all which comes before him. There is the officer panting for distinction, who finds it not now, as formerly, at the cannon's mouth, but behind the correspondent's chair. There is the gruff commander, who surlily orders " the fellow" out of camp, or the chief of the department, who declines to give him information, or perh tps refuses to supply him with the means of subsistence or of transport. These men have, however, almost dwindled out of sight, as they are not in keeping with the nor are they wise in their generation, being too much wedded to the exploded idea, that glory is really to be found at the cannon's mouth. LAW AND poLic..,. CLINCH V. FINANCIAL CORPORATION.—In the Court o 1 Chancery, before the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices, an appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chan cellor was heard in. the case of Clinch v. Financial Corpo. ration. The plainiiff had prayed for a declaration that an arrangement for amalgamation come to between the directors of the Financial Corporation and of the Oriental Commercial Bank was beyond the power of the directors, and not binding on the shareholders. The Vice-Chancellor in the court below held that the pro posed amalgamation was not within the scope of the articles of the corporation, neither was it valid under the 161st section of the Companies Act 1862. The Lord Chancellor now confirmed this decision, and the other judges concurred, dismissing the appeal with costs. PROBATE.—The Dendy will cause, which has occupied so much of the time and attention of the Court of Probate (one trial, in December 1866, lasting five days, and a second, in December last, eleven days), has now made its appear. ance at the Westminster Police-court. On Friday, Mr. Harris, one of the witnesses, was charged with perjury, and after a lengthened hearing the case was adjourned for a week. LIBEL.—Mr. Ellissen, a City wine merchant, has again been before the Lord Mayor to answer the charge of having written and published, in certain letters to I o:d Stanley, a false and defamatory libel concerning Sir R. M. Stephenson, the chairman, and the directors of the Ottoman Railway Company. The case for the prosecution was concluded by the evidence of Sir Rowland. The defendant utterly denied the charge, and said that what he had done was by order of those who employed him. The Lord Mayor said he had made up his mind to send the case for trial ; but the exit “ng-tion was further adjourned until Friday next, At the desire of the Paisley Free Church rre. tery, the 'bus proprietors of that town have agreed not run their vehicles on Sundays. The Queen has been pleased to direct letter• patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto James Lumsden, of Arden, iu the county of Dumbarton, Esq., Lord Provost of the city of Glasgow.—Gazette. QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—We understand that on an application being made to the Lord Chancellor for silk by a member of the common-law bar, his lordship intimated that it was not his intention at present to recommend any geztleman to her Majesty for that distinction.—Laze Journal. THE SCOTCH LAW COMMISSION. —The resolution adopted by the Society of Solicitors before the Supreme Courts in regard to this commission was as follows : " That in the opinion of this society the commission is not so constituted as to command the confidence of the country and the legal profession, and to secure the objects which this society consider it essential to attain—namely, greater facilities for disposing of busi• ness, and at a less cost to litigants." Other proposals were made, hut they were remitted to a committee for consideration. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote as Secre. tart' of State for India, gave a farewell breakfast yester day to the Earl of Mayo, at the India-office, previous to the earl's departure for Calcutta to enter upon the duties of viceroy of India. The following guests were present:— General Lord Napier of Magdala, Hon. Captain Burke, Mr. Edmund Ashworth, Sir Edward Ryan, General Baker Sir Robert Vivian, Sir F. Halliday, Sfr Bartle Frere, Sir Henry Rawlinson, C. 8., Sir Robert Montgomery, Mr. Mel ville, Sir C. Jackson, Sir F. Currie, Sir H. Montgomery, Mr. Arbuthnott, Sir James W. Hogg, Mr. Merivale, Sir H. Durand, Mr. Mangles, Mr. M'Naghton, Captain Eastwick, Mr. F. H. Chapman, Mr. E. Cliveßailey, and Mr. Northcote. CONTROL OF RAIN.—If Nature wants man b touch the forests with a sparing band, she no less indicates that he shall put forth his utmost energy in breaking up the soil of the prairies, and when possible plant trees. Th, quantity of rain in Western Nebraska and Kansas is re ported to have doubled since the early settlement in those regions, and the reason doubtless is to be found both in the planting of trees and the opening up of the soil so as to absorb more moisture. Moreover, brooks, o. " branches" as they call them out there, are starting up in gullies and gulches hitherto dry. Colorado and California States, generally utterly dry for eight summer months, have this year begun to have heavy rains. The same causes are probably at work all over the " dry season portions of our country." On the other hand, Ohio and Northern New York are echoing the complaints of the French Agricul tural Report, that the felling of forests is the ruin of rivers. These natural laws seem plain enough. Man should learn to follow them.—New York Times. THE CONGRESS OF THE BRITISH CHESS Associ- ATION.—It is the practice of this association to hold their -meetings alternately in London and in the country. This year it is London's turn, and there are some circumstance, connected with the gatherings which make it unusually interesting to chess players. The programme of the pro- ceedings, which will shortly be issued, contains the follow ing arrangements :—On Monday evening, November 23, there will be a preliminary meeting under the president ship of the Right Hon. Lord Lyttelton, held at the St. George's Chess Club, King-street, St. James's, where players intending to compete in the tournaments will attend for the purpose of being paired. Play is to com mence on the next clay at all the leading London chess clubs. The Grand Challenge Cup, of the value of £5O, now held by Mr. De Vere, will be again com peted for. If be should win it a second time it will become his property. The second best in this contest will be presented with ten guineas by the association. There will be a handicap tournament open to all comers in which prizes will be given to the amount of £4O. Other prizes, ranging from £5 to £2O, will be competed for in the usual way, and there will be blindfold play, club, consultation, and other matches. The proceedings will terminate with a banquet. It is thought that Mr. De Vere, who now holds the cup, -will again win it; but the competition will be severe, the entries including a stronger array of British chess-players than on any former occasion. The Rev. A. B. Shipwortb, of Bitsdale Yorkshire, the Rev. J. Drover, of Cheshire, Mr. Bird ci Lonkni. and neural °there will oxmose Mr. DeiOreret. SPAIN. The statement that Don Ferdinand, of Portugal, had refused to become a candidate for the throne of Spain is strengthened by the IlEmorial Diplomatique. This journal announces that the decision of the ex-King is irrevocable. When the question was proposed to him he is said to have made use of expressions similar to the following : —" I ac cepted from duty and paternal love the post of Regent to this kingdom (Portugal) which I have conscientiously filled ; but I was too sensible of the burden of power to charge myself with it again on a larger and more stormy theatre. I am anxious to pass the few years which God reserves for me in a calm and peaceable retirement, in conformity with my tastes, to which ambition is a stranger." Don Ferdinand is wiser than most of his generation ; but his decision will beyond doubt greatly complicate the difficulties of the Spanish Monarchists. There was something after all in the Libertrs curious announcement that a deputation of four had waited upon General Cabrera, in London, and had induced him to head a Carlist movement. At least the Prase says that a meeting of the principal partisans of Don Carlos was recently held at the residence of that prince. Cabrera, Gomez, and others were present. "Important resolutions were adopted, and the statement is that the first-named General has left for Madrid, commissioned to confer with the triumvirate at present in power." Turkey has recognised the Provisional Government. Several correspondents say that the candidature of the Duke of Montpensier is supported by some members of the Provisional Government, but that the people give it no encouragement. Dulce, Serrano, and Topete are said to be the leaders of this movement. RUSSIAN BED TAPE. Red tape in Russia differs materially from the same article in England. Our officials are traditionally famous for the principle " How not to do it ;" in Russia the efforts of subordinates are concentrated chiefly upon " doing " the Government. Russian diplomacy is second to none in the world ; but the swindling, corruption, and trickery in the various departments is almost beyond belief. A curious incident has just transpired. The Emperor, who expected that his troops were being rapidly armed with breech loaders, has found out that only a few thousands have been supplied to the army. Wherever the mighty sove reign went he found that the soldiers bad the new weapon, but disph , yed a suspicious incompetency in handling it. The truth comes out at last, even from a Russian official. One set of breechloaders had done duty before the Emperor in • all parts of the country. They were used at a review at St. Petersburg, and then sent off to Warsaw, where their travels have been stopped by the discovery. The Poles, says the North-Eastern Correspondence, are abandoning the country en masse. The flower of the youthful population are flying in all directions to the German ports, hoping to find freedom, if not subsistence, in the west. Of a levy of 20,000 Polish youths it was found that one half had emigrated. The Russian authorities are taking married men in place of the defaulters. THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S SPEECH. The Preach Opposition papers are not satisfied with King William's speech. The Temps says, "We had been promised beforehand that it would he extremely pacific; in reality, if it contains nothing to make the Bourse go down, it furnishes no material with which speculators can send it up." The Lzherte observes that the discourse is significant chiefly by its insignificance. As a peace demonstration, it is confined to the eternal reproduction of the worn out phrase —" The relations of my Government with foreign Powers are, in every direction, satisfactory and friendly." With respect to the sentence on Spanish affairs, the Siècle astutely remarks that Prussia would not be likely to object to have the regenerated country for an ally. The Opposi tion journals of Paris are very hard to please ; but it is evident that the King of Prussia's address to the Chambers contains nothing that was expected, andnothing more than the usual " assurances." GERMANY. The liberty of the press is not precisely a Prussian insti tution. The Democratic Society of Frankfort was in the habit of taking twenty-five copies of one of the papers—not specially devoted to Prussian rule—estsr blished in the old free town. These copies were dis tributed. A poor woman who carried them to their destination has been arrested, and condemned to six weeks' imprisonment and a fine of £7 108. No appeal has been allowed. Professor Ewald, one of the most learned men in the country, has had his pension withdrawn for a publishing a pamphlet condemni ng P russ i an annexa ti on from moral point of view. LAW IN7ELLLIGENCE—(Yesterday.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. SMITH V. SADD. This was an action to recover the price to be paid fora certain public-house. It was contended that the value had been overstated, and the purchaser refused to complete. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—da mages £5O. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Before Chief Justice Bovill and Justices Byles, Keating, and Brett.) EDMUNDS V. GREENWOOD. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., said this action was now entered for trial at the sitting at Middlesex after next term. On the present occasion he had to move for a rule calling upon the defendant to show cause why certain interro gatories should not be put to him. The plaintiff was M'Leonard Edmunds, and late a clerk in the Patent-office, and reading clerk in the House of Lords, and the defendant was Mr. Greenwood, solicitor to the Treasury. The case was one for libel, and application had been made to Mr. Baron Martin to order the interrogatories to be answered, but his lordship had refused to make the order. The Chief Justice—Then the present is an ap peal from the decision of Mr. Baron Martin. Mr. Seymour said that was so. The declaration set out that the libel was contained in three re ports made by the defendant, and also a letter which Mr. Greenwood had written. Certain charges were made against the plaintiff, and an inquiry was directed by the Government to be made as to the mode business was conducted in the office. The complaint of the plaintiff was that Mr. Green wood had made comments on matters foreign to the inquiry he was directed to make, and that these reports, by their publication in the newspapers, had been highly injurious to the plaintiff. The Lord Chief Justice said it did not appear that the defendant had directed the publication, and it was not so stated or itnplied in the affidavit a of the plaintiff. Mr. Seymour said that the principal parts upon which h e theaskedlitfhoorgiruafpohrnicriti of the theunents on copies was for what pur ps were sent to Mr. Woodruff at the Patent-office. The case is proceeding, and will occupy some time. .......... COURT OF PROBATE. The part heard case of Gills v. Ellis was resumed this morning, and occupied the whole of the day. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, i3eaufort-buildings, Strand, London, W.C—[Ad vertisement.) 7'HE EARTHQUAKES. Another earthquake occurred at San Francisco on the 22d, following the 13 shocks of the preced ing day. Though the damage is small, the people, as can readily be believed, are in an excited state, and at night throng the streets. The tidal waves which rolled from end to end of the Pacific, just as a placid pool is disturbed by a stone, the circling wavelets running over its surface, so the waves caused by the terrible convulsion which shook down the cities of Peru have reached the uttermost ends of that vast ocean. From California the news of this tidal phenorn.non. reached England long be fore its cause was explained, then came the account from the Sandwich Islands and from China, and lastly from New Zealand. What the effects were of these monster billows on their resistless pro gress we will never learn. Tradition may tell future generations, of islands scarcely now known being submerged and races annihilated. Vast numbers of the Pacific groups are of coral formation and little elevated above the sea; and a painful picture is presented to our mind when Nye think of the fate of those who dwelt on such. The Chatham Islands, of which we can learn Beane thing, from their close proximity to New Zea land, suffered fearfully, but what would be the suffering of a community accustomed to a stormy region with back country where many could escape, compared with the annihilation of the inhabitants of many sunny groups, over which the waves must have rolled from end to end. Their magnitude too seems to have dwindled ere reaching New Zealand, as for instance the rise and fall at Wellington, which stands in a land-locked harbour, did not ex ceed the ordinary rise and ebb of the tide. The town runs along a beach, at the foot of a hill, and world have been submerged had the rise been con siderable. Had the town been open to the inward roll of the Pacific the case would have been similar to that of the Chatham Islands. A sharp rattle of an earthquake, added to the fright the phenomenon caused in New Zealand. If Paddy has not mis taken the grunt of his pig for an earthquake and furnished details out of his fertile imagination, a shock has been felt in Ireland, and now the con vulsion has approached so near those who live in the houses one-brick thick of London, estimate what must be the force of a shock to bring down, like a pack of cards, a large portion of the metropolis. By the last West India steamer news was received from Mexico that " Ixtaccihuate, one of the Puebla volcanoes which had been so long silent, woke up on the 21st of July last. A crater burst open, from which there issued with great force a column of air mingled with water, mud, and enormous masses of rock. It may be supposed that, a passage being now opened up, we shall soon have an eruption on a grand scale. Ixtaccihuate (the white woman) has from time immemorial preserved the silence in character with the shrouded figure which its snowy outline represents, and the above fact is another illustration of the unwonted volcanic activity which in other parts of the American continent has re cently produced. such lamentable results." Tele grams were received at New York on Thuradav, which say that the town of Sanblas, ou the east coast of Mexico, has been greatly damaged by a heavy gale arid a tidal wave which washed over the town. Four deaths are reported. 7HE CO-OPERA7IVE S 7 ORE. A. pretentious institution has been established at 28, Haymarket, entitled the Civil Service Co-ope rative Society (Limited) As usual, it is divided into shares, with a portion pail up ; and equally as usual, it has a list of good names as honorary directors, such as Farr and Murchison, and a list of not bad names as working directors, such as haw ker and Bowes. We dire say it is intended well, and perhaps may have been productive of some good. A 3, however, it publicly announces that it s designed to " i.roinote in every passible man ner the general welfare of the Civil Serv;ce " we may be permitted to glance at what it does. "che first question siiggesed is who are the people it benefits? Some might suppose that such a society was designed to add a little more to the daily fire of the working clerk, to supply his wife or it may be his widow with a cheaper cup of tea, and his children with warmer and ampler clothing, but the only persons especially mentioned are Peers, members of Parliament, and Justices of the peace. It is true that naval and military officers and clergymen, as also their widows and orphans, are admitted as members, but on a calculation peculiar to this society the benefits only accrue to theta on payment of a fee: just double that levied . from a Peer. The officer's widow is worth to this association five shillings a year, and the Duke of Uranium is calculated at half-a-crown. To understand the working of this company it is necessary to know the class of customers it supplies, and this is not only announced as stated, but it is seen in the carriages at the door, and in the fashion able ladies and gentlemen who throng the Store— we suppose it would not do to call it the Marquis of S disbury's shop. Having now the people, we may glance at what this benevolent society does for them. It commences by stating that it has a capi tal of 1,000 shares of £5 each, of which £2 have been paid,up. The dividend is not, under any cir cumstances, to exceed 5 per cent., and the surplus profits, if any, are to be applied to further the general objects. Arrangements have bees made with manufacturers, wholesale houses, and others, to supply at wholesale or reduced prices such articles as the society has not in store. Thus it is enabled to say it can supply its members with everything from a pin to an anchor ; and from a lollypop to a wedding cake. Now this is a grand announcement, and has a fine effect when speaking of the general beneficence of the society. What does Mr. Thierry mean by cau tioning members not to mention the discount before other customers when making their purchases? If the transaction be fair and above board, why this concealment ? Has Mr. Thierry in his inmost heart a notion that it does savour of double-dealing when the customer who thinks him a good boot maker and deals for ready money is mulcted in a higher sum because he does not pay five shillings a year to his lordship's shop? But putting aside the arrangements of this society beyond its own store, let us examine what it does there for its members. Its long list, neatly confined to eatables, we have compared with the prices paid by careful housekeepers, who deal only for ready money with their grocers, and we find both nearly identi cal. All retail houses of that class make a consi derable difference between regular customers who pay over the counter, and charges booked; but we maintain, after careful inquiry, that any well-estab lished family grocer gives the goods as cheap to those in the habit of dealing with him, as the mem bers get their supplies from the store. We make a shade of allowance for the delivery and for the greater accommodation of attendance. If this be so, consider ing the immense amount of business transacted, con sidering that no bad debts can he made, considering that the society has carefully avoided putting into the store perishable articles, and, therefore, that there can be no loss in such a direction, the conclusion is, that this Aristocratic Charitable Society must be coining money, or that the grocers work on so narrow a margin of profit that they cannot be un dersold. In either case, always presuming that our premises are correct, the society is a mistake. If the former, it is something worse, for it then be comes a blatant piece of humbug, which, looking to its directors, is highly improbable ; if the latter, it runs an opposition again it a hard-working, econo mical, and useful body of tradesmen, to their serious injury, without effecting any good— for no good can be effected so long as the grocers, in common with other tradesmen, deal honestly with their customers. The present movement originated in the high prices charged by the tradesmen who supply people of fashion. The latter transact such business through their servants who levy contribu tions on the shopkeepers, and once the system of bribery is introduced, the family pay heavily in the end. What uyttb aebts, what with long credit and these douceurs, the charges are very high, and compare most unfavourably with those of the Co operative Society. If then that association bad bees openly announced as a combin ttion of lords and ladies against their own servants and tradesmen, the explanation would be clear. But instead of this it professes to work for the benefit of the humbler members of the services, and really hits at honest, valuable shopkeepers, at least until such time as the fashion changes and their customers discover how little is the benefitgained. Our chief objection to the association is that it interferes unduly and improperly with trade, and will surely lead, if it has not done 5, already, to abuse. We see a clique of tradesmen and professional men in connection with this so ciety who profess to sell cheaper than their neigh bours—a profession all make, who have any thing to sell. But combinations and " round robins" are in the nature of monopolies established for the benefit of a few, and against the public. If the members imagine that these people are a baud of philanthropists, desirous of su d plying theca with the necessaries and luxuries of life, they will find out their mistake. Nor is it wrong only on this principle, for it induces tradesmen to in fringe a gol len rule in the hope of gain ; that is, to sell to one class cheaper than to another, the con ditions being the same. This alone would prevent many honourable tradesmen from having anything to do with such an association, and, holding this very proper principle, they would be excluded from the very place they were best qualified to fill. in view of so great an objection, we would wish the society to furnish some explanation of what other wise, we cannot but think, savours of the under hand.—Anglo-American 7inies. . LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING• WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, NOT. 6. 2d Life Guards—For Cornet E. H. Lee, from the Ist Dragoons, to be Cornet, &c., read Cornet E. H. Lee, from the Ist Dragoons to be Cornet and Sub-Lieute nant. 3d Dragoon Guards—Captain H. 31 Hozier to be Captain, Lieut. F. A. S. Mannock to be Captain, and Cornet D• A. Grant to be Lieutenant. 3d Hussars—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Charles H. Harvey, M.D., to be Assistant Surgeon. 11th Hussars—Edward Eardley Lushington, Gent., to be Cornet. 14th Hussars—Paymaster and Honorary Captain John Macartney to be Paymaster. Royal Artillery—Second Captain Henry Cardew to be Captain, Second Captain H. Percival to be Captain, Second Captain C. V. Arbuckle to be Captain, Lieuten ant A. Harness to be Second Captain, Lieutenant IV. IL Montgotnelie to be Second Captain, Lieutenant G. 0 Strahan to be Seconded on appointment to the Colonial Secretaryship of the Bahamas, Surgeon David Woods to be Surgeon ; Acting Veterinary Surgeon J. Reilly to be Veterinary Surgeon. Military Train - Lieutenant Edward Rodneq Cecil Pechell to be Captain, Ensign Daniel List Brain to be Lieuten ant, Ensign Frederick Luttman-Johnson to be Lieu tenant. 3.1 Foot—Ensign Malcolm Alexander Gray to be Ensig°• 4th Foot—Captain Francis Forbes Atkinson to be Car tam°, Lieutenant. Christopher Itawes i)urrant to be Gar tain, Ensign Thomas Edward Stopford Ilickminau to be Lieutenant. George St. John Colthurst, Gent., to be Ensign. Gth Foot—Ensign Mascie Taylor to bo Lieutenant, Mal colm Alexander Gray, Gent., to be Ensign. 7th Foot—Lieutenant William Gatlin, from the 7 6. . 11 Foot, to be Lieutenant; Lieutenant Gardiner Frederic Guyon, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant. 11th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon G. W. Barroll to be Assistant-Surgeon. 12th Foot —Lieutenant W. A. Featherstonehaugh to be Captain, Ensign William W. It. Ouslow, to be Lieu truant. _ 16th Foot—Lieutenant Henry John Cholineley to be Car tain, Ensign Philip Neil to be Lieutenant, Arthur Ea' mond ilagarty, Gent., to be Ensign. 22d Foot -Lieutenant Edward Stratou to be Adjutant. 24th Foot Captain James John Neil Buchanan to be Captain. 26th Foot —Lieutenant Philip Conway Story to be Car tali], Ensign Fredrick Samuel Alexander to be Lieuten' ant, Ensign James Bond Clarke to be Lieutenant. 28th Foot—Captain George Elliott to be Captain, Lieu" Anthony Smyth to be Captain, Ensign Francis Au" nesloy to be Lieutenant, Arthur Strong Gent., to be Ensign. 33d Foot—Lieut. George O'Sullivan to be Lieutenant. 34th Foot—Lieut. Cliarles Leeson to be Captain. 35th Foot—Lieut. Alfred Seymour to be Lieutenant. 36th Foot - Lieut. Augustus Hartford to be Captain, Du sign Stannus Gordon to be Lieutenant, Ensign e,orge Richmond to be Lieutenant, Ensign Henry Swetenhael to be Lieutenant, Ensign John Peirso de la Poer Beres" ford to be Ensign. 43d Foot—Ensign George St. John Colthurst to be 1.11- sign. 44th Foot - Lieut. Arthur J. Roberts to be Ensign. 45th Foot— Captain John Martin to be Captain. - 4(ith Foot—Eusign Henry Allatt to be Ensign. 48th Foot—Captain Christopher Durrant to be Captain. 49th Foot--Lieut.. Aichard Pope to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Edward Des Barres to be Ensign. 50th Foot—Surgeon James Fraser, M.D., to be Surgeon' Major. 57th Foot—Lietenant Francis Henry Clayton to be Car taiu, Ensign Charles John Matthews to be Lieutenan t. 58th Feot—Ensign Francis Mellowes Maycock to be Ensign, Ensign Cyril Hugh Selby Gambier to be E". sign. 60th Foot—Ensign William Francis Chalmers Wigston to be Lieutenant. 71st Foot—Ensign James Argyll Spalding Inglis to be Li& utenant ; Kenneth Malc o lm Eliot Kerr, Gent., to be Ensign. 77th Poot—Captain H. M. L. Colquboun to be Major. 83d Foot—Ensign Arthur Vivian Henry Brooke to b e Lieutenant: Rodber William Stapylton Burnet, Gent., to be Ensign. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 3. Commanders :—Augustus John Burton and Henri Temple, on the Retired List, have been allowed to assume the rank of Retired Captain. Sub-Lieutenant Angu s M'Leod has been promoted to be a Lieutenant. • NOVEMBER 4. The following promotions have this day been made;^*" Commander James Elpbinstone Eiskino to be Captaiel Lieuts. Alfred Frederick Maresbaux and Stanhope Grove Price to be Commanders. ROMFORD CATTLE MARKET.—At market y e ster' day there was a short supply of prime stock, and other descriptions were in dull demand, at the following prises , at per stone and sinking the offal :—Beasts, 3s 4d to 4s Sd' Sheep--prime wethers, 458.1; and inferior sheep, 3s 8d to 4s. Veal, 3s 8d to 5s 2d. Pigs—neat porkers, 4s 4d to 45 8d ; and large hogs, 3s 6d to 3s 10d. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—ln bilious dis orders, sick headache, indigestion, and affections of the nerve s ' these famous Pills, so hig'ily appreciated in all quarters of tile world, are regarded as a perfect remedy. They purify the blood , regulate the secretions, give tone to the stomach, restore the sP petite, and invigorate the sysxm. 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Maria J,,,,°!,•;; Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47,1`21. —'= file Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Iler: s ,' of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Beware of the ma i l unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, Witi l f u „.. authority. Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attache.* In tins, at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9il ; 2 lbs., 4s. Gd. ; 5 lbs., 1 1 % 12 lbs , 22s ; 241bs ,40s.—Also Dv BAR RY 'S REVALENTA ARO IC ,t CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin ca n i s t ers; For 12 cuPs 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cu p s a t G s ., f or 288 c ups at 3 0 3 s o ' i : for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. '1 be o y and 555. tins are sent fr ee o f carr i age i n E ng l an d o n rece 7 s. o Post Office Orden—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO., 1 0 " Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. Bun/tot:cams—On the sth inst., at Hoveton Hall, Norfolk, the Hon. Mrs. Randall Boroughes, of a son. HALLIDAY—On the 2d inst., at lustow, North Devon, t b° wife of Major Halliday, of a daughter. SHIPNER—On the 30th ult., at Coombe Sussex, Lady Shiffner, of a daughter. Marriages. CASSIDY—EWART —On the sth inst., at Upper N or.— rate r P. Y. Cassidy, E sq ., C ap t a i n 31 st Regt., son of the .er Colonel Cassidy, 31 s t R eg t., t o G race , seco nd (laugh' the late Peter Ewart, Esq. JAMES —BAKER—On the sth inst., at Churchill, Nit— t o minster, Joint James, Esq., of Alburys, Wrmgtun Mary, second daughter of the l a t e R o b er t Baker, 1 4' 1 West Huy, Wrington, Somerset. Deaths. Fox 7 On_ths__sth inst., at 30, Chester-terrace, Etleut'°- . park, Wm. Fox, Esq., aged 89. aODGRINSON—On tho sth inst., at Ventnor, LW., Corn' mander A. B. Hodgkinson, R.N., aged 41. burly KINGSBURY—On the 4th inst., Frederick John King s of the Stock Exchange, aged 25. i t 1361 ' SANDHAM —On the 6th inst., at 18, Lowndes-saee :6,143.,i.. gravo-square,Lieut.-General H. 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