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

THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1868, of the Association resolved:to"advise herplasEsTv's VORILISPOSDENCE PRO* PLIUS. ' THE CHUROR 'IN THE CC E M---sAI"-------------"---"-----"OSESI and SON, f . ;F ------------------:"--------f E BOAT SERVICES. -During theStprms.no_ _LA the past year the National Lifeboat Institution . Government to despatch an expedition to the Ant- Pieserious apprehensionsare'beginnini • ributed to the saving of 1,086 lives from varinl,- ,l,lp- FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT :I 1, arctic regions, under the command of Captain ataongst Churchmen who are interested ii ! .. lte Church in the colonies, in connexion _ .. AIER CHANT TAILORS and OUTFITTERS. wrecks and 36 vessels f . rom destruction. one I s ns ia ti i t f u ebo tio a n t also expended £31,815 in the same . period on i f t _ s JAMES Ross, and Dr. HOOKER determined to ac- . --- , PARIS, WEDNESDAY, AUgWil% Establishments, in addition to granting £3,189 or reward . Serious conflict has taken place near Macon between company this expedition, and it was in this way Sd i me French and Piedmontese workmen. It appears that Ortraordinary state of the colonial epis months ago the Bishop of Mauritius (Dr. The Committee of the institution earnestly appeal to tho public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued that his scientific career was shaped. It is, in- kar some time nast a deadly feud, arising out of some form tits country and resigned his see, since sv OR ALL CLASSES.S4 the trades-union question, has prevailed between the en appointed to the archdeaoonry of Suff( heavy demands on their 187 Lifeboat E.stablishments. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Lond? a deed, something for him to look back upon working men of the two nations. A few days ago an open XC E LLE NC E WITII CHEAPNESS. and country ban . kers . , and by the Secretary, Richard Lew! (s, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. that he has been connected with the discovery of quarrel broke out, caused by "a violent assault com- of Thwaito St. George, in the diocese of N ear since Dr. M'Dou el all Bishop of Labi .11-4 ' ______---------"------._._--------- : the Polar Barrier, the Southern Magnetic Poles, tnitted by a Piedmontese miner upon a Frenchman L g ' Ali initiatory combat Was cl, resigned his see, and has been prose] the Antarctic Continent, and the ice-clad vol-and. Canons of Westminster to the vicarag PRICES BASED ON READY -MONEY SYSTEM. ege t j e Wr ,) 4 .4.' ..,. . e .,. *.** ' inll - . `followed t : ad b e i: more serious measures. The Vreneh abitatits of Montceau- lea -Mines, a village ter. Nothing is said about the appointor , $ by statisticians that thirty years represent the either of these sees, which are left altoget fIIIE AD CAGES of the READ . near Macon, where the quarrel began, all turned out, and copal superintendence. .Again, many mon 1 SYSTEM cannot be better expressed than irt-ttOrf(o)1Nlo!rg 4 1 Z PI " , ' , ~. r NIP tiegO average duration of human life, but, according to marched to another village named Alouette, where the extract from a leading article in the " Times:"- Piedmontese miners chiefly resided. The houses were broken ing, Bishop of Bombay, came to England e Everybody knows the difference between. a credit and a affords one tailor !--- - -----''''------ ---- --------- the records of the British Association, it does not see, which has now been for a very long ready money business. It is this partly which open and terrible excesses committed, one old man being the e xcuse for charging £7 is. for a coat while another will LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868. seem so, for of the 14 junior officers who presided episcopal head. Some of the Church pap charge 1-1 .Is. ..It is true that every . tradesman ought to punctually. Still dragged out of bed and almost killed. Many of the Pied- Stafford Northcote, the Secretary for Ind! te his charges to customers who pay -----o— in 1838, only two remain-Sir RODERICK MUR- montese miners were wounded, and the rest fled ; but offered the bishoprio to Mr. Douglas, Des a w b e a know how in this particular we all suffer for a few delin quents." The electors of the Tower Hamlets appear to b€l CHISON and Professor PHILLIPS. The custom of still more serious consequences might have followed had but the statement has received no 00 one adventur- " Presidential Addresses " dates from the perm • d not a considerable body of soldiers arrived in tilde In New Zealand the principal bishop ik- LL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES the object of attention to more than ous politician. The member whose name is most; referred to; for before that other officers had the to prevent further mischief. Many arrests were made, though not without difficulty. Indeed, according to the the promotion of Dr. Selwyn to the bish( Bishop Selwyn has gone out to New Zeal associated with theirs, Mr. AYRTON, M.P., has thet task of delivering them, and there is some truth local Papers, the crowd which followed the prisoners was NIOSES and SON.to make arrangements for a successor; bi E • merit at least of making himself and his constitti- in the objections raised by Dr. HooKEtt so violent that they had to be released and recaptured the will have very considerable di ffi culty, haw next day by the troops. Several of the wounded Pi e d-ADDR ESSES BELOW. ency noticeable by bringing them constantly before; against the practice, for it adds to the termination of his tenure of the bishoi montese lie at the hospital in a dangerous state. A fresh the public. The hon. member sometimes does use- difficulties attendant on the choice of Pre- outbreak is considered probable. ceased. The New Zealand bishopric of I also practically vacant, for although Dr. EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. ful service no doubt by opening questions which sident, it being presumed that great responsibility .ta. troupe of thirty Abyssinians, who are described as the crated to the bishopric in 18GG, he has n( E MUSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke Medians and acrobats of King Theodore have arrived more timid or hesitating mortals are shown to attaches itself to the preparation of these addresses. c° , is to lISSUMO his episcopal duties. The bii • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, hero. Their performance not very remarkable, and the begin. When he takes the lead others follow who It stands to reason that the time and research re- Parisian public can form but a poor idea of the dramatic and Armadale, which became vacant by Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. by drowning of Bishop Sawyer, has not are averse to take the first step. No considers- qu i r ed f or th e a r rangement of an elaborate die- diversions of Ethiopia if the antics of this troupe, wih Every article the best of its kind in Material, Style, and and the diocese is in pretty much the sal Workmanship. course must interfere with the necessary duties of are neither astonishing nor elegant, may be taken b as e s A N unusually large and varied STOCK for the lions of prudence or taste deter the energetic specimen. before Dr. Sawyer went out. Dr. Par SUMMER SEASON, in every Department. . . member for the Tower Hamlets. When he has the office, and thus the speaker is put to a great badoes, is said either to have resigned The triumphant election of M. Grdvy, the Opposition For JITITENILES there is a distinct department, containing an h resolved upon a particular course he follows it at all disadvantage. Nevertheless it must be admitted arrangements for the admstration of (-palled assortment of Clothing for ! very occasion. te ri . : 1 candidate for the department ► of the Jura, is still the most F iled Styles are combined with the best ria s hazards, indifferent apparently alike to public that there is nothing to complain of in this theme of rejoicing n the part of the Liberal press. The coadjutor, while the Bishop of Jamaica h and Workmanship. inaugural affair, and it may be perused with profit lack of new . s . at then present tir . rie may be the ( cause of • this of years been in England, his diocese 1 List of Prices, with rules of self-measurement, Patterns and opinion or the scarcely concealed irritation of Parlia- by the Bishop of Kingston. The Bisho Fashion -sheet, g ratis and post-free. meat. During the last session he made himself and pleasure by all desirous of acAuainting them- event receiving more attention than it is worth, but it is, nevertheless, an important victory. The diocese of Perth and the Bishop of Hot Every article is marked the lowest price in plain figures, from which no abatement can be ofm mad England. • Any article not approved will' be exchanged, or the money conspicuous by his opposition to the Metropolitan selves with the general details of science, and their result, I believe, has produced no little sensation will be returned. Cattle Bill, and through the sheer pertinacity of relation to everyday life. In reference to Museums, in o ffi cial quarters. The Administration took every pre- iv - . it W . SCULLY AND HIS E MOSES and SON'S E s tablishments are Closed every caution to ensure a di ff erent result; and up to the last Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when himself and his followers the bill was virtually Dr HOOKER very truly remarked that much of .___-..._____ business is resumed till 11 o'clock. moment the o ffi cial reports represented the victory as The following are the London addresses of E MOSES and defeated. The majority of the members were their utility depended upon two conditions that we certain. The Opposition was discouraged by the recent The " lease " which, it is said, Mi of . B . allycobey, wished his tenants to SON:- strongly in its favour, and on every division they are apt to overlook-their situation, and their light- election in the Gard, and the Government was proper -155, MINORIES is alleged , caused the ill-feeling 150, MINORIES carried all before them, but from an in- ing and other arrangements. The country museum tionately confident. Everything, in fact, seemed in favour 1 outrage of Friday last, has seven 157, MINORIES a the latter and against the former. M. Grdvy, the genious and persevering application of the rules is quite in a dark, out-of-the-way place, and it document , as printed by the Cos 83, ALDGATE success f u l candidate, is a politician of considerable repu s-t, ALDGATE . of the House, according to the letter and seems only meant to catch people on market days, +Aeon. other Irish journals, requires, fi rst, 85, ALDGATE shall "pay the entire of all poor rat( 88, ALDGATE not to the spirit, the opponents of the the town folks not going near it. Schools never The Emperor will probably set out for the camp at and all other rates, taxes, duties, ani 87, ALDGATE measure, few in number though they were, suc- frequent a provincial museum, and yet they could Chalons on Saturday. The departure of his Majesty will 83, ALDGATE 1e the signal . • for the exodus of all the diplomatists who shall not be entitled to any reduction 89, ALDGATE cceded in throwing it out, for the session at least. derive mach useful knowledge from it if duly remain in Paris, including Prince Metternich. in respect of such payment ; se. 50G, NEW OXFORD -STREET It is true that theirs was in all probability only a tenant shall not be entitled t( 507, NEW OXFORD-STREET directed to it. At Kew, where there are many Prince Napoleon is at Boulogne at present, whence be .50, NEW OXFORD STREET temporary victory, but it showed what could be will shortly depart for Havre. Before his departure for the any customary, or way going, out-of-door attractions, there are many visitors 1, HART-STREAT town on the Channel he visited the Emperor, for the first or proportion of a crop, growirq accomplished by unscrupulous determination. In to the museum, and this is because of 2, HART-STREET time since the return of the Prince from his European tour. at the end of the tenancy, .or to 3, HART-STREET the coming Parliament the Tower Hamlets are to better arrangements being made with respect to it. The interview, say the gossips, was not very satisfactory. therefore ; thirdly, that the tenant sh 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD boast of four members, all of whom, according to It would be if more general attention was paid to The Prince believes that the hope of stability for the leaving them in tenantable order, o 138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Mr. AYRTON'S belief, are to share his politics. It Imperial regime consists in the development of Liberal next after the service of a twent) (, ed i fice. ,, fourthly, that this notice shall be s Country Branch ; is not unreasonable to hope that they will not also this matter, besause a useful means of imparting ideas, or in putting a really finishing touch to the 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. knowledge is thereby lost, and people go on lament- But the Emperor gives no ear to these arguments. posted on a conspicuous part of a (11 20, BRIDGE STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. share his energy and his powers of speech upon ably ignorant of what ordinary minds can fully The good people of n ot djnt to the farm • fifthly, that SPECIAL NOTICE. every occasion, great or small, else the days of Havre greatly deSire a visit from the Emperor, and a petition drawn up with that request a unde 1 t devi se ' the lands the landlord's re' consent in writing ; In consequence of frequent misrepresentations, E. MOSES future sessions are likely to be interminable. comprehend. As it is put in this explanation be has received 35,000 signatures. and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ fore us-" What boy that had ever been shown any travellers or agents, and that their only Establishments Mr. AYRTON'S political opinions arc already General Prim • d recently arrive at Vichy from England. tenant shall erect or make no built their skulls would call a seal or porpoise a fish, or His movements were watched with great care by the fence, or drain, except with the lan are the above-mentioned. writing ; seventhly, that the tenant I pretty well known, both to his own constituents COUNTER. GLO'T'TIS FOR LICENCED believe a hedgehog could milk cows, as many do police ;in fact, so eager were the officials in looking after VICTUALLERS. and to the country at large. They ought to be so, implicitly?" him, that the sous-prefects of Boulogne and Havre and not break up, or change from ' announced that he bad passed through both those certain proportion of the contents of tl rHE only article really suitable for that purpose, since by his own showing he has been sixteen years ously placed with respect to position, and those who towns , was also to be at liberty to surren -I- ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address a member of Parliament without seeing reason to 105, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. pine for fresh air in its galleries have only the re- --------_ nuarter-day after twenty-one days' no' change or modify his opinions. The question of sort of the hotter and dustier streets before them. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. Mr. Vincent Scully writes to t GLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED Reform was, he tells us, one of the very first upon Mail protesting against the name of h VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN. which he took his stand, and be has always strongly The labours of the able officers who conduct the - METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. in accounts of the Tipperary murder 1 17(TILLIAM HOLDIC II and C 0.,. - N o. 105, affairs of the British Museum have effected wonders, Extreme Bea name. Mr. Vincent Scully by no men V V Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No. 5 upheld the cause. It is somewhat surprising, how- and from being thirty years ago the sixth in Europe ----- founded in any way with his brother NI; be Pavement, Clapham-common. ever, to find how large a share Mr. AYRTON had in Thursday, F. 1 1. 4 out to the Mail that he (Vincent) is ti August 20, B. T.11)4 W. Ito E. D. WR. to it now ranks as the finest in the world. , 8 a.m. 12 9 The Mail notes at the end of the ABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, passing the Reform Bill of 1867, although, after The greatest botanical discoveries of late years Nairn ____ I— --. _- -- _ 30'0f. 54 51 &E. 1 1 N.W. o.cb - 1 quainted with Mr. Vincent Scully's ch I expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins all, he is not very well satisfied with it. It Aberdeen 3o'o3f. 52 48 S.W. 1 1 8.8.-F. c.b. - ;0 0 : 0 04 2 1 : 55 57 52 55 N N . . Scarborough for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towelling of have been physiological, and Mr. DARWIN'S series Leith ... vex 54 51 S.E. 2 2 S.},• o.c. -_ 1 could have supposed that he was the g was Mr. AYRTON who procured the reduction of 2 5 N.N.E. o. - 4 but we feel obliged to him for correct! every description. Patterns gratis and post fre©. 3 7 N.E. moo 012 4 of papers on the fertilization of plants have been of the lodger's term of residence from twelve to six Yarmouth 29'91r. 66 64 N.N.E. 3 3 S.S.E. CO. . - 2 omission.. great service in the advancement of knowledge. Helder , .;; : : 2.. - ..-.. -_- -. :: : 1 :7_ ::: CIARDIGAN JACKETS. made ex . pressly for Bar months. It was owing to Mr. AYRTON that the V use, Warm and Elastic, from es. 6(1. each, for This distinguished naturalist has entered into the E A tti l d ro e L n a te n s 307( - )sf. - 57 - 5 - 3 - B. "" 2 " - 2 - N.W. - C. -_-_- -2 KEEPING A BODY SEVEN _Adies' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM HOLDICH Tower Hamlets was the only large constituency subject so fully that he has been considered to have Greencastle 303 e f. 55 53 Ei W. 2 4 N.N.E. b.co - - 4UCr CO., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet- Holyhead 3o'o2r. 60 57 N. 0 6 N.N.E. o.c. - _ ----o•-- which was divided into two, with four members. Liverpool 30•05r. 59 53 N. street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. thrown more light on the matters he treated of than Nralentia 30.081. 57 54 S.S.W. ..• • • OnWednesday r. Bateson, the Me —lf Mr. AYRTON'S advice had been taken in other all previous botanical writers had accomplished. His .. 30•061. 60 69 W. 3 4 N.W. lefi -2 „ Ft a o P .l2 a Pt. 30'08a. 55 53 S.W. 2 6 •- 1 f or St George's, Southwark, attend NITIL v LI A',N I L II 0 L D D IC 11 , E an t d bl C ish o e " d LICENSED IB4 9 at 16 5 respects the bill would have been much better, but paper on the well-known forms of the primrose and Penzance .. 30'10r. 59 57 N.N.W. 3 8 N. 0.cb,0'02 2 tamo o utl ; . iO 3 :( 0 )tr rl 2 151 N.E.N. 2 7 N. 0. 'o'os 3 3 5 N.E. (. - 2 t orte atheSouthwark forthe Police - cou: removal of the corpse of a invent,Fleet-street, City ; Southern Branch—No. 5, The Pave- such as it is the public will be a little surprised to the cowslip contained much that was surprising, and tgr n tg o m n o uth .. Er r .. 58 5 57 5 N.E. 7 4 2 E. r.o. 0'32 3 4 5 N. o.er',o'l9 - mortuary of the parish, the parent Clapham-common. Patterns gratis and post free, learn that the credit of settling the reform question C'paGrisitez 29'93r. 63 61 S. 1 4 S.S.W. r. 0.1 1 1 with Price List.the results took botanists by surprise. Dr HOOKER Brest is not due to Mr. DISRAELI, but to Mr. GLADSTONE. knowledge Lo c iai t i o t i , i :: n r r : 57 3 tl NZ. 7 ; 117 r i. •' i I to a small house in Oakley-place, OF observes that he himself felt that his TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. "It was to the self-denial and spirit of Mr. GLAD- Biarritz .... 29'951. 64 64 W. 7--r. t 5 Kent road where he found the corps had been but little deeper than Peter Bell's, to V 3 o ni ri s i s o e l s s : ::: 27 -:- :: - - - - ESTABLISHED 1842. STONE in resigning o ffi ce when defeated on reform whom Paris - - - - __ _ room inhabited by a family of poor y AT, ILLIAM 11 OLDICH and CO., the settlement of the question was in truth Lyons - - - -- - --- on Sunday fortnight, and ever E Strasbourg - - - - - - - _ .._ _ k V LICE :ACED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. that A primrose by the river's brim, - - - - - - - -- - in the same room where the Toulon - 3 105, Flo-'t-street, corner of Farringdon-street ; and at No. due." After this skilful putting of the case no one A yellow primrose was to him, Heart's Con-I • slept. There were only two room 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). tent (6 a.m. I the other room was tenanted by can deny Mr. AYRTON'S ingenuity. And-it was nothing more." local time) , 3019 f. ,60 5;3 W. 4 4 W. o. ;- 4 . were all endangered by the corpse bi T H EAT R E ROYAL, ADELPIII. On education Mr. AYRTON has not much to say, Among other important generalisations on this point Barometer corrected and 'educed to Z. 2 tit g. a sea level. Theletter EXPLANATION, may be mentioned that plants with conspicuously The magistrate . made the order actor Sole Proprietor and 'M•tnager. Mr. B. WEBSTER,. excepting that he is in favour of secular education ; Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. r., risin g; f., fallieg ; a., s teady-ilitliclee direction of 'Deem of the siderable di ffi culty the corpse was rer coloured flowers or powerful odours, or honeyed mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer ex i °Zed in shade. stood that the reason the parents k( THIS EVENING (Mr. Anson's Benefit), at 7, A ROUGIT while as to trades unions he is inclined to sapport DIAMOND. Messrs. G. Belmore, Ashley; Mrs. Billitagton, and secretions, are fertilised by insects, while those of Extreme Force with its Direction durin g last 24 hours. Z.-calm. was to get up a raffle to pay the ex them. Oa local questions he speaks fairly and Miss Lennox Gray. Weather : b.-blue ay; c.-cleues, detached ; f.-fog ; le-h Ill ; A a quarter to Eight, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. G. sensibly enough, and in reference to the gas goes- a contrary kind are fertilised by the wind, from i li 1 1 ...--__getn eg :m.—intsty, nary ; (I-overcast, dull ; T.— rain ; ti.— snow; and wake. Belmore, Billington, 'Ashley, J. G. Taylor, C. 11. Stephenson,whence it is inferred that before honey-feeding t.-thunder. R a i n -fan, sues' or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. C. J. Smith: Via, Charlotte Saunders, Miss Louisa Moore, Miss tion is anxious to obtain the removal of the gaso -31.'11.11 Harris, and Miss Lennox Grey. insects were in existence, the " vegetation of our Sea disturbance. REMARKS. . FASTING UNTO 1 T., conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Messrs. meters from the populous centres of London. Mr. J. W. Anson, G. Belmore, Belford; Miss Polly Marshall, and The barometrical pressures over the northern and western portions 0 our s an a are a . yesterday, whilst other die-globe could not have been ornamented with f I 1 d little lower than in eee bliss Fanny Addison. AYRTON declared his intention to stand entirely by tracts there has been a genera ' Increase, amounting to mire than An inquiry has been held by Mr brighter coloured flowers, but consisted. of such --------. two-tenths of an inch on the Channel coast. The region of g reatest himself without regard to any of the other can-coroner, at the Globe Tavern, Crutch 1r) OYAL PRINCESS'S,,THEATRE. ~ death, from exhaustion, of Mr. B Nn.,in, ctidates. plants as pines, oaks, grapes, nettles," &c. It is pressure is in the 8.W.: readings are now very uniform. The change aged eighty-five years. :,1,,,,,-1 reeet intneeetenes ert follow nut the ohserva- in temperature has been sli t g h lit. The wind yesterday was strong from Mrs. S. C Channel snd c.. , .. ...nprnliv fresh on the deceased, said that ho was a ROYAL 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, 11. J. Montague, J. G Shore ; Miss Trcssy Marston, and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by ,Ir. F. Lloyds an'l assistants. To conclude with NO. 1, ROUND THE CORNER. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. JOYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole- Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE: Messrs. Belford, Harcourt; Miss Sheridan After which, THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. 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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 us, 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 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. CoorE " 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 .n the new Parliament, and if he succeed in carry mg 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. CoorE desires to bring about between capital and labour will do still more, if they are ever accompli s hed. " It i s f or th e benefit of each," he 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 countrie3 for remunerative support." far when he said that what FARADAY'S discoveries are to telegraphy Mr. DARWIN'S Will assuredly prove to social economy in its widest sense and most extended application. FllE"b UN " NEWSPAPER.—G. R. G LENIE delivers the L %TE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, ; Starch-green, 8 ; Woo lwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 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. THE THIRD EDITION OF THE SUN, ,, giving all the SPORTING NEWS of the day, may be seen at JEM it Y M NTON'S house, " The Swan and Horse Shoe, - -Attie Britain, City, E.C. The barometrical pressures over the northern and western portions of our islands are a little lower than yesterday, whilst in other dis trict, there has b e e n a general increase, am oun ting to nn re than two-tenths of an inch on the. Channel coast. The region of greatest pressure is in the S.W. : readings are now very uniform. The change in temperature has been slight. The wind yesterday was strong from the N. at the entrance of the Channel, and was generally fre,h 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. Some 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 Schliieh 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 he was really an artist, and that he was travelling for his own pleasure. The authorities of Schlfichtern 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 Kissengen to the Libate 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 "SUN" NEWSPAPER. -C=. R. GLEN lE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught - ter race, Ed g eware-road, delivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver Copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by vine o'clocl The British Association commenced its labours yesterday, and Norwich was chosen for the place of its assembling. lir. 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 the daughter of the Emperor Alexander to the young King of Bavaria. On the other band, 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 Bdrsenhalle 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 Indepentlance 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, money 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 " a s. d." are still letters which we must connect very closely with electioneering proceedings, the following advertisement, for the 1.9)0 fides of which Echoes from, the Clubs is responsible, will eliew :—" Parlia ment. —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, Alexander-place, Brompton, S.W." "Ex-Candidate,' in a letter to the Times, draws attention to another matter which requires consideration with regard to the el actions. 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 hoiibnrs. Let be felt tlAtti plan . 19,ses respect by going trom 120449 t 2 ikuealtalks would COLONIES. Pie serious apprehensions are'begituling tote entertained itiaongat Churchmen who are interested in the question of the Ohurch in the colonies, in connexion with the present extraordinary state of the colonial episcopate. Several months ago the Bishop of Mauritius (Dr. Ryan) arrived in beis country and resigned his see, since which time he has en appointed to the archdeaconry of Suffolk and the rectory ofbwaite St. George, in the diocese of Norwich. Nearly a year since Dr. M‘Dougall, Bishop of Labuan, came to Eng ,n4:ll resigned his see, and has been presented by the Dean and. Canons of Westminster to the vicarage of Godmanches ier. 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 l i 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 Lichfield. Bishop Selwyn has gone out to New Zealand to endeavour to make arrangements for a successor; but it is supposed he will have very considerable difficulty, inasmuch as with the termination of his tenure of the bishopric all endowment ceased. The New Zealand bishopric of Dunedin (Otago) is also practically vacant, for although Dr. Jenner was conse crated to the bishopric in 18GG, 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 have resigned or to be making arrangements for the administration of his diocese by a coadjutor, while the Bishop of Jamaica 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. Orders by post punctually attended to. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" to b 3 seen Every Evening by 8.10 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK'S, Britannia, Mensal New-town QPORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies the LAMS P Emni)N" of " Tim SUN " as soon as pub lished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. rrHE LATE EDITION of "TILE SUN" at r[ JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strand. T IM LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " a J. SMITH'S, 'a, Bow-street, Covent-garden. riviE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at I. W. SMITE!. " Camdea Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden tQ tv n. 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 be 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 Rolland, Rhenish Prussia, Rhenish Hesse, and Rhenish Bavaria, to be ruled over by the King of Saxony, under the title of " King of the Rhine 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 lie is at prey 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 Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the new Minister Plenipotentiary from the 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—Coctioners in London and Chemists, &c., in , the provinces--supply liffniman'e Tee, only in fackete. MR. TV. 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 he points out to the Mail that he (Vincent) is the head of his family. The Mail notes at the end of the letter :—" No one ac quainted with Mr. Vincent Scully's character as a laneord 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, OnWednesday Dr. Bateson, the Medical Officer of Health for St. George's, Southwark, attended before the magis- trate at the Southwark Yolice-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 hold by Mr. W. Payne, the City coroner, at the Globe Tavern, Crutchodfriars, respecting the death, from exhaustion, of Mr. Henry Simon Lazarus, aged eighty-five years. Mrs. S. C. Barnett, daughter of the deceased, said that ho was a commercial traveller, and he generally resided at Prestwich. He came up to town a few days ago. Ho 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 ho began a fast (the usual Jewish fast on the occasion of the new 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 she heard of his death during the afternoon, that ho 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. He then went up tho stairs, but be staggered and fall backwards, and rolled down eight steps. Ha was picked up dead, and he was removed to the clerks' office, and a doctor was sent for. Mr. Cyrus James, assistant to Dr. Sequiere, said 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 £lO, the property of Mr. S. Marshall, of the Globe Works, Shalesinoor, mysteriously disappeared on Thursday night from the Nether Cut Wheel on the Myelin. 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, Abbeydale-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 wore to have their bands back on condition that they paid the sum of £B—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 their hulls, they will receive a note in the usual way indicating where the stolen bands may be found, and no one will be the wiser as to who placed thorn there. The mon 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 OATH.—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 will 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 OP MOUNT SINAI. —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 Mountain of the 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 side 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 the 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, iu 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, blasé, cold-hearted, selfish, cynical roué, by name Harold Jerningham. 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 goldea 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 Thorburu'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 nephew, 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 Bergerac, who 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 frien I, the fashionable, flighty, heartless, accomplished Harold Jerningham. 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 almost sayamicably, 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 recounted 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 an 1 practised novelist becomes the most signally manifested. The eclaircissement is admirably worked out. The terror awak ened by the 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 Shenstoue'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 " 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 repriutsjhave 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 the works 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 7housand Wonderful Things. Edited by E. F. King, M.A. George lioutledge 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 Rare, Curious, Eccentric, and Extraordinary in all Ages and Nations"—the letterpress being " 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 - Somnambulism —Sword Breakers— Pot Helmets—Origin of the Use of Tobacco—Loadstones—these 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 Thou3and Wonderful Things" may be secure of what it most unquestionably deserves —an immediate and im mense circulation. g f : j6,4A, Court uullat 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. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (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 All6e-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 King 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, is 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, " Wa s offered to the King of Prussia lately on his visit to Wiesbaden. On a small islet in the Rhine was constructed in wood work a grand portico, semi circular, supposed to represent Olympus, and artis tically ornamented with the statues of all the divi' nities. The tallest men of the regiment wer e selected to personate these gods and goddesses. They were clothed in white drapery, strongly 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 the right of all was posted a colossal sub-commissimi e ' 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 t ° the statues during the fete." A telegram from Prague, in the'Press of:Violist says :—" The town of Badweis is in flames b y th ! act of an incendiary. The fire broke ou t tho afternoon in the Brain-gasse. The post-office and the court-house and fifty houses have be e : destroyed. At eight this evening (August 14) l„ learn that the conflagration has been got under. The Pays has the subjoined : —" The 12th nue v ber of the Lanterne, which was to have bee ° published in Paris, has appeared only in Belgiu M ' and we learn that it has been stopped at the fro li ; tier. This issue contains, it is said, out rages against the Empress, which is conduct quite eon o sistent on the part of the man who insulted t'e. memory of Marie-Antoinette and Joan of M ot However, we suppose that M. Rochefor t has ilaa read the law respecting offences committed ahr° o by French citizens, for that meas ure obliter3;6 frontiers. Consequently, if this number of 0 Lanterne contains a violation of the statute, it ef) : a . l° be prosecuted in Paris although pub lishe Belgium." A singular conflict has just arisen between of town of Mulliausen and the presbyteral cattl e : 4 a the Reformed religion there. The new Gile, church, built on the site of the former eu',oi some time back received bells from the founclr; M. Keller, of Zurich, while those of t he old b , e 0 a fry, which is still standing , were t o be taken cldatif and removed to the Catholic Churc h of St. with the exception of one intended for the est er, testant building. At the last moment, llevla the council of the German presbytery forrue opposition to the removal of the bells , and ed,sfilif.i,it the affair before one of the tribunals. " ro la awaiting a decision on the question of ovu e ci otl the objects in dispute have been sequestrateej t , 9 confided to the charge of a person aprei llt the Court. Bo uRSE, August 19 .—Three o'clock.—The barge closed as follows : 145 Bank Shares ...... 3 , Itaran Loan ...... End of month... 2 3 Mexican Loan ••• Do. Bonds ...... , Spanish Threes Home Debt...... 5;1 Deferred ...... Casr L s. 895 Orleans Northern 946 Lyons and Mediterranean 578 Southern..... sr 7 Western Eastern Sardinian .................................. 542 Austrian ....................................... Lombard ....................................... 4gg North of Spain .............................. 63 S arag ossa .................................... 4 0 lioznau 1 "'" .... ............ ... 4 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7O GO Credit Mobilier 282 End of month 285 Credit Foncior _1443 Emi of month — - RAILWA: