The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times says the mere fact that the last Prime Minister of Louis Philippe's reign comes forth from his twenty years' retirement, that he breaks through the course of ascetic studies with which he soothes the wean• ness of a well-spent old age, gives M. Guizot's utterance all the earnestness of a warning from beyond the grave. One feels how great must be the emergency which induces the secluded thinker to revisit the scenes of immediate action, and one forgets how sadly he himself broke down in the application of his doctrines, out of respect for the soundness and accuracy of the doctrines themselves. M. Guizot is, of course, no partisan of war. It was never his opinion that Sadowa would have justified an outbreak of hostilities. Neither, on the other hand, does he blame the Emperor's Government if, upon its determination not to make Sadowa a casus belli, it still deemed it necessary to put the country in a state of defence. There was an amount of armament, as DI. Guizot hints, which the peculiar position of France fully justified. Possibly the measures of military reorganisation originally contemplated by the Emperor himself had only a defensive object ; but under the influence of the marshals the preparations of France assumed an aggressive attitude. The scheme was not to create a domestic militia, but to get together half a million of thoroughly trained and seasoned soldiers, to be thrown into any given point at any given time. So long as even the remotest danger of a collision existed, it would have been the height of madness for the Emperor's Govern. ment to be found unprepared ; but there was equal insanity in pushiug on national armaments to the utmost verge of a menace at the very time that the Government filled the world with the most positive assurances, not only of its pacific intentions, but of its unshaken confidence in the pacific intentions of its neighbours. With peaceful prospects, 31. Guizot thinks, armaments should be reduced to a peace footing. He points to disarmament as the only measure calculated to allay misgiving. The aged statesman and historian has not been by any means the first to arrive at that conclu sion. Let us hope that the authority of his voice may work that impression which the utterance of public opinion under any other form has failed to produce. The Standard fears that such a decision as that of the revising barrister for Hackney is likely to make the lodger franchise a grand contrivance for the manufacture of fictitious votes and for the registration of unqualified electors. At first the Hackney barrister thought the claimant's signature must be proved, but he afterwards came to the conclusion that proof of the service of the claim would do, and was in fact primd facie evidence of the qualification. In other words, if the overseers proved that some one brought them a paper in which some name was entered as a lodger in some house, occu pied by some one else, the mere delivery of the paper is to prove the truth of the statements contained in it, and justify the revisor in entering the claim upon the list of voters. A glance at the reports of the revision court§ is r.fficient to prove that the second thoughts of the Hack !' jy revisor are by no means his best. People of careless habits or elastic consciences have shewn themselves won derfully indifferent to the strict accuracy of the declara tion which every lodger has to subscribe, and if it be once understood that the revising barrister will ask no ques tions and require no proof, we shall have active agents doing quite a brisk trade in the manufacture of voters undiscoverable by any ordinary process, but for whom personators will appear in full force whenever contests run close. Of course there may be places and people not requiring to be looked after, but i that Hackney is not the chosen retreat of these impeccables appears from a circumstance that occurred on the very day that Mr. Bathurst gave the decision on which we are commenting. The Middlesex revision was in progress, and the county list for a parish in this very borough of Hackney came under review. Mr. Bathurst had said that the " overseers proved the service of the claim," and he accepted this service as proof of the qualification, to he held good unless rebutted by other evidence ; thus shifting the burden of proof from the claimant, and leaving it to the vigilance of objectors and the chances of the chapter of accidents. How wide a door for vote-making this opens we need not point out. It may in a measure be guarded by party jealousy, but that is entirely beside the question. The Act requires a certain qualification, and one great object of revision by barristers is to secure com pliance with its provisions, irrespective of the volunteered aid which political feeling may supply. The Daily News says that the Act has had to be inter preted for the first time, and the confusion and reversal of decisions have been very embarrassing. It is, however, only fair to say that the whole tendency of the decisions hitherto has been towards enfranchisement. Rigid re quirements have been relaxed ; and a few days' experi ence has brought about far more uniformity in the action of the several courts. The revising barristers have shewn a praiseworthy willingness to consider the intentions of the Legislature to be rather in favour of inclusion than of exclusion, and to facilitate the cumbrous process by which lodgers get upon the register, rather than to make it more cumbrous still by putting technical difficulties in the way. The &or is puzzled to know what to say about the second accident on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, occurring as it has so near the scene of an accident about which we have already heard so much. It seems absurd to begin anew the preaching of caution to railway autho rities; if this has not been taught them by recent events, no words can do it. It is, perhaps, fair to conclude that both accidents are traceable to some radical defect in the traffic accommodation on this portion of the line, against which ordinary and even extraordinary care in the working of trains is of no certain avail. This, the most charitable supposition,sofar as all the responsible persons are concerned, only proves the necessity for a full and most searching inquiry into a condition of affairs that has clearly passed beyond their influence and control. The Board of Trade has the power of making such an inquiry, and the responsibility rests with it for anything that may happen while the line is suffered to remain under the doubts which as present exist respecting it. While the law is put in force against the men whose carelessness led to the fearful holocaust of Abergele, other ervants of the same company have been guilty of the same neglect. At the very time when the express was due at Holywell, the shunting of the luggage train from the down to the up main line of rails was going for ward, and no signals had been set to warn the con ductors of the passenger train that the way was not clear for its advance. Here, evidently, says the Tele graph, there was carelessness even more gross than that which had brought about the greater mischance. At Abergele, if the trucks had not run back, there would have been no collision ; the Irish mail would have drawn up at the distance signal, and the worst conse quence of the bungling would have been a delay of a few minutes, while the goods train was effectually stowed away in the siding. The running away of the trucks was, indeed, a contingency against which the arrange ments made at Llandulas did not completely guard ; but it was in itself accidental, and up to that point, though there had certainly been bad management, there was no positive danger. At i Holywell, however, the arrangement nvolved a direct danger ; for, as we have said, the goods train sprawled across both lines, creating peril to trains running either up or down and no signal protected it against the down express. Here, then, on one of the best managed sections of railway in the country, and within a month after a disaster had occurred which is almost without parallel on this side of the Atlantic, we have an accident which as nearly as possible reproduces the Abergele catastrophe. It is evident that we must look beyond the individual casualties in order to find the causes. With respect to the right of women to be placed on the register, the Herald holds that there can be no question as to what was the intention of the Legislature in conferring the suffrage'on every who possessed a house and was personally rated forit iwa lt is absolutely inconsistent with the well-In )v. gallantrynof the two Houses to sun). e that, had th e y meantto n aspecial compliment tr, the women, they w ou ld not have taken pains to expr es .hat intention cle ar ly. I t is incredible that they coin, have meant io let in th e sex to this great privilege under ewer of the vague and illusive e " man," a word, as Miss Lydia Becker very properly t rves, which signifies nothing. If we had no otherehie o to s tile intention of the Legislature, we have the positive all-sufficient t fact that the very question of the admi a ss n i c bil of women to the franchise was formally raised and di y c e l c iss i :d at the instance of Mr. Mill, and that it was decided majority that women should not have votes. yl'hlairage deference, therefore, to Mr. Shaen's ingenious plea that this was a resolution of the House of Commons alone, and (foes not affect or qualify the action of the House of Lords or the Crown, we must approve of the decision of the revising barristers. The causes which led up to the very remarkable murder of Mr. Darcy M`Gee, being the direct results of two distinct phases of Irish discontent, demand, in the opinion of the Post, a much snore serious consideration of the cir cumstances connected with the atrocious deed than ordinarily would be accor-led to a similar event. Mr. Darcy INl`Gee before he lef t his native land of Ireland, and in 'the fiery days of his youth, was, unfortunately for himself, implicated in the mad folly of Smith O'Brien's mischievous attempt to redress, by physical force, the fancied wrongs of his most unhappy country; and one of the res,tlts of that abortive attempt was the removal of Mr. l);ircy Mies to the American c,,ntinent. Strange, ho eve r, to relate, ha anon de veloped in that c,iintry the real virtues and talents which formed the staple of Ids character, awl which lay concealed under the phantasms of his more youthful and excited imagination, and the very curious spectacle was witnessed of a cer i-dant rebel not only conforming to the dictates of law and loyalty, but working his way to an impos taut position in the Canadian Government, and even going out of his course to instruct his poor, ignorant, and misled fellow-coun trymen, endeavouring to dissuade them from becoming entangled in the delusions of Fen ianism. 'No wonder, then, that a man whose every action in I , l 3 4 i .sril)ey years was a potent protest against the existence the infamous society which sought to t undermine i the loyalty of the Irish in Canada, ' as in t iem feelings of to England and the ls English oexe . in every part of the world where they reside d should become obnoxious to its bitterest hatred, and that he should fall a victim to assassination, which is one of its recognised weavoia. . . MR. CHILDERS AT PONTEFRACT. Mr. Childers addressed the electors of Pontefract on Thursday night. Be followed up his former speech by charging the Government with extravagance. He had been asked how the late Government met new expenditure by corresponding economy, and how the present Govern. ment might have followed their example. In 1863 £53,000 was laid out for defensive purposes, and in 1866 £484,000 for the same purpose, and yet the estimates in 1866 were considerably less than in 1863. In four years the late Government reduced the army gradually 16,000 men, and the marine in the same proportion. The improved education of the soldier and improvements in warlike appliances, as well as the greater efficiency of the reserves, made every single soldier more valuable than before, and the stoppage of the New Zealand war and the recent changes in North America ought to have enabled the present Government to reduce the army also ; but instead of that the numbers were now greater than they had been, and there had been no reduction in the estimates. PRISONS AND REFORMA7ORIES. The inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Mr. Sidney Turner, has presented to the Home Secretary his 11th annual report on the con- dition of these institutions. It is for the year 1867, and it is necessary to bear the date in mind, as we are now approaching the end of 1868, and a little allowance may have to be made for the lapse of time. It is to be hoped that any change that may have occurred in that period has been for the better, though a certain sameness in the details rather damps any very sanguine hope of a speedy regenera tion of the class it deals with. The impression left by the report is that everything that can be done for the improvement of those who are both young and criminal is at least attempted. That the suc cess is not altogether in proportion to the effort must be admitted ; but that is by no means a sufficient reason why the attempt should be aban doned. Some good is done, and with that result, probably, we must be content. The material dealt with is bad—sometimes very bad indeed. It must, for the safety of those who are young and not criminal, be rejected from the school. The school would simply perish if it were not cast out. Yet mere prisons tenanted by the very young would be a saddening sight; so an attempt is made to combine some education with the discipline of the prison itself. Punishment for evil-doing is blended with instruction that may lessen the criminality for he future. The inmates of these establishments, it will be observed, are always called "juvenile offenders," not young criminals, which many of them really are. For instance, ." two or three of he girls" in the Lisson-street Training Refuge " attempted to set the premises on fire," though, fortunately, they did not succeed. Help was at hand, and the calamity was prevented. It was not known, or supposed, to be the act of any of the " juveniles" till about two months afterwards, when a " discharged inmate" told bow it occurred. The Inspector " can see no valid reason for the alarm which seemed to possess the matron and some of the committee," nor for their giving up the certificate, and so " narrowing most materially the usefulness and lessening the resources of the school." Bat the resignation was accepted, the certificate revoked, and the girls transferred to other places. The in stitution, in short, was broken up. The Inspector did not reside on the premises—a fact that in case of a fire makes a considerable difference in any esti mate of the occurrence. The institution, it may be remarked, seems to have been as easily extinguished as the fire. This it must be admitted was an excep tional case, even among that very troublesome class " juvenile offenders." An agreeable contrast to this state of things is afforded by the Report of the Hants Reformatory, at Eling, near Southampton. Here the premises consisted of an old farmhouse, which formed the older portion of the building ; it was also destroyed by a fire which originated in a chimney. But the school-room, dormitory, and workshops were saved by the courage and exertions of the superintendent " and the boys." The build ings are being restored by a liberal subscription in the county, and the institution will, it appears, be more efficient for its objects in consequence of the misfortune. Though the misdeeds of the female culprits in other reformatories fall short of the crime of fire-raising, as recorded in Lisson-street Training Refuge, it is very evident that they give far more trouble and are more difficult to deal with than the boys. Thus at the Red Lodge Reforma tory at Bristol, under the head of " discipline," it is recorded that " things appear to have gone on pretty well." The chief fault the inspector has to nute is peculiarly feminine ; he says, " the girls were rather more talkative and noisy than usual during my examination." It is not a bad result where this is the worst that can be said. These same talkative girls " did very well in reading and dictation, and remarkably well in ciphering." They also answered the Inspector's questions " with in telligence." The test of the discipline they had undergone is, of course, most severe when they are released from it. And in this main point the result is about as favourable as could be expected. Of 55 discharged, 33 are said to be doing well, seven are doubtful, ten are returned " unknown," and five have been reconvicted. In the great majority of these cases, then, it is proved that a certain, and, it is to be hoped, permaneuf, amount of good has been effected. They are very bad cases, indeed, that give no hope of improvement. 'That such instances, however, do occur is evident. All the efforts of the authorities are sometimes completely baffled, the system meets with its young Calibans occasionally, and finds itself as powerless in improving them as Prospero. The strongest belief in the effect of training and education has at times a very severe trial,aud the ever-recurring difficulty is, to discover what can be done with those natures to which " nurture will never stick." The fact that it is not always extreme poverty that has been the cause of the evil only adds to the perplexity of the case. It is, therefore, quite a pleasant relief to discover a few instances in which the efforts of the authorities have been successful to an extent that almost produces a feel ing of encouragement. The report from the Akbar Reformatory School ship at Liverpool is one of these brighter passages. The number of its inmates is 177. The inspector found the ship itself "in excellent order," which in nautical eyes would be a great virtue, to begin with. Perhaps the secret of the better system might be discovered in the fact that " the discipline is necessarily stricter than in ordinary Reformatories." The number of boys on board is 200. But the bright appearance and cheerful manner of the inmates (or perhaps we ought to say the crew) spoke very favourably of their treatment, and of their kindly feeling and confidence towards Captain Borland, R.N. The boys are divided into two watches, and these into four classes. The proficiency of the first and second classes in each watch in reading, spelling, and writing was very creditable, though they did not do so well in dictation. The lower classes did very fairly, especially in ciphering. The training consists chiefly in nautical exercises, which a large proportion of the boys went through most cre ditably. A portion of the crew is employed in tailoring, shoemaking, and carpentry, so that they have a resource should they be driven on shore, which is nearly a sailor's last extremity. It should not be omitted that Mrs. Borland resides on board, "contributing most materially to the cheerful and domestic spirit that marks the school." Of 164 discharged in the past year 85 are known to be doing well, four are dead, seven cases are doubtful, 13 have been reconvicted, and 55 are returned as " unknown," being, at the date of the report, "at sea and not lately heard from." Much, therefore, depends on the future of those 55, who leave a tolerably wide margin for hope. On the whole, the report from the Akbar is a compa ratively bright spot in the surrounding darkness. Perhaps something of the good result may be attri buted to the more complete isolation of a ship, which, in this respect, has an advantage over any building on shore. If a few of the hulks " laid up in ordinary," waiting for the dry rot, or the snip breaker, could be converted to the same purpose as the Akbar, it would not be altogether a bad specu lation. There is another Reformatory ship, the Clarence, at Liverpool. It is appropriated to Ro man Catholic boys, and contains 207 inmates. From this ship, too, the report is encouraging. It ap peared "to be well maintained, and was in good order." The boys were generally healthy, and their conduct, on the whole, good ; their manner and appearance " were very satisfactory." Some of the officers " had given trouble," but of what kind is not stated. The industrial training consists of " nautical exercises," repair of clothing, and carpentry. Though the weather was rough, the crew loosed and furled sails very skilfully. Of eight boys discharged in the year, three are doing well, three are returned " unknown," and two have been re-convicted. The Mount St. 11,,r -nard's Reformatory for Roman Catholic boys, at Whitwick, Leicester, is an instance a what may be done ashore as well as afloat, even with very un promising materials. The number of inmates is 248. Here a farm of 300 acres is kept under cultivation, and further employment provided in workshops for tailors, carpenters, and shoemakers, the profits from which are returned as more than £4OO. At the Home in the East, at Old Ford, Bow, the school contains 60 boys. Here, too, they are employed in tailoring and shoemaking, and the garden affords a good deal of employment in growing vegetables for the school and " flowers for sale in the neighbour hood." This latter fact is one of the most pleasing incidents recorded in a volume where such facts are scarce ; and it is immediately fol lowed by a report that stands in strong contrast. At the Reformatory at Little Mill, near Usk, there is a farm, said to be in good cultivation ; but the superintendent's report of the conduct of the boys is not satisfactory. Two or three of the inmates had been " very troublesome." The barn was burnt down in the spring, and this appeared certainly to have been the act of one of the boys, though the proof was not sufficient for a legal conviction. On other points the report is quite up to the average. The inmates could spell and write fairly, though their ciphering was very " uncertain and defec- tive." On the whole, this result cannot be consi dered very unsatisfactory. Good reading and " fair" writing are not always acquired by the pu pils of what are called superior schools; and the arithmetic brought away from such " establish ments" is often very imperfect indeed. It would be unreasonable, then, to expect better results from the Reformatories, which are places of punishmen t as well as teaching, than from schools that receive the children of a much higher class for education alone. The many failures of the less promising in stitution would not be surprising even were they much more numerous. The materials the teachers have to work on are very inferior, and, bearing this in mind, the result, notwithstanding some failures, is encouraging enough to justify a perseverance in the same direction. PRIVATE BILL CO.3I3IIITEBS. A return has been issued of the number of times M.P.'s have served on private bill committees. Mr. Ayrton and Mr. Fordyce have served 23 times ; then come Mr. Yorke, who served on 22 committees ; Mr. ICihnaird on 19 ; Mr. Childers and Mr. Howes, 18 ; Mr. Dent, Mr. Miller, and Lord R. Montagu, 17 ; Mr. Stacpoole, Mr. Bonham-Carter, and Mr. Waldegrave Leslie, 16 ; Mr. Powell, Mr. Read, and Mr. Goschen, 15 ; Sir J. Fergusson, Mr. Hunt, and Sir C. O'Loghlen, 14 ; Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Whitbread, General Dunne, and Mr. Graves, 13 ; Mr. Bazley, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Card well, Mr. Clive, Mr. Dunlop, Lord Hotham, Mr. Pollard- Urquhart, Mr. H. Russell, and Mr. Woodd, 12. The favourite members for select committees last session appear to have been Mr. Goschen, who was appointed to serve on six at one and the same time ; Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Howes, and Sir C. O'Loghlen, who were nominated for 5 ; and Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Childers, Mr. Graves, Sir C. Lanyon, Mr. Powell, and Mr. Read, who were appointed on 4. Three private bill committees had the advantage of Mr. J. Stuart Mill's attendance, but the hon. gentle ' man does not appear to have sat on any select committee. Upwards of 150 members escaped committees altogether, and this is not in all cases on account of age, for Lord Amberley, The O'Donoghue, Sir R. Palmer, Mr. Platt, and Lord Stanley were among the number. LAW AND POLICE. SUPPOSED MURDER IN THE Min.—Robert Hall, labourer, has been charged at the Southwark Police-court with the murder of William Johnson. A policeman gave evidence that he had seen the prisoner struggling with a man, who had taken the clasp-knife from him with which he had stabbed the deceased. Several other witnesses were called, and the dying man's depositions were put in. From these it appears he was stabbed in a scuffle. The prisoner declined to say anything in defence, and was committed to Newgate for trial. A MAN KILLING HIS BROTHER FOR THE SAKE OF HALE A CROWN.-At the Liverpool Police-court, a man named John Birmingham was brought up, on the charge of having caused the death of his brother, William Birmingham. The prisoner, while under the influence of drink, went to the house of the deceased and asked for half a crown. This he refused to give, when the prisoner aimed a blow at him with a heavy iron ship scraper. This was wrested from him by a bystander, but, running to his own house, he got another scraper, and with it struck his brother a violent blow on the head, inflicting an injury which resulted in his death. When he was apprehended the prisoner said, " I'm very sorry ; it was all about half a crown." He was remanded until after the inquest had been held. CHARGE OF FORGERY AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.-At the Taunton Pplice-court a serious charge of forgery and highway robbery with violence has been preferred against Mr. William Matthews, hitherto looked upon as a respectable butcher, residing at Trull, near Taunton. The prisoner was indebted in the sum of £llO to Mr. Archibald Reeves, a solicitor, at Taunton, for the security of the payment of which he held a bill of sale on Matthews's property. On Saturday evening Mr. Reeves distrained upon Matthews's household goods, and placed two bailiffs in possession, leaving in the custody of one, Charles Lake, the bill of sale. It was alleged that Matthews left the house, as he said, for the purpose of settling the matter with Mr. Reeves, and shortly returned, bringing a note purporting to be written by Mr. Reeves to the bailiffs, requesting them to leave the house. Previous to leaving, Matthews gave Lake some gin-and-water, which he believes to have been drugged. As they were going home Matthews followed them, felled Lake to the ground, and rendered him insensible. On consciousness returning he found that the bill of sale had baen stolen from the breast-pocket of his coat. Mr. Reeves denies that he wrote the note Matthews gave the bailiffs, and alleges that it was written by Matthews himself to get the bailiffs out of possession. Hence the charge of forgory. The pri soner was rein an,led. The Pall Mall Gaxette is informed that the Mar quis of Bute has formally joined the Roman CzAho Church. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has accepted an invitation from the civic representatives of Glasgow and the University Council to lay the foundation-stone of the new college of Glasgow. The ceremony is expected to take place about the ith of October. DEATH FROM AN ARROW.—A little girl,- named Clara Louisa Bingham, while lying on the grass during the Foresters' Fête in Vintners Park, near Maidstone, was struck by a stray arrow, shot from the -bow of a lady, inflicting a severe wound. The little girl was taken to the West Kent General Hospital, where she was an in-patient for some time, but was afterwards removed home, and she Las since died from the effects of the wound. She was the only child of poor parents. A DEFENDER OF THE IRISH CHURCH AT BLACK LEY. —A correspondent informs us that the Rev. S. G. :Potter, one of the lecturers engaged in the defence of the Trish Church Establishment, in a sermon preached at Blackley parish church on Sunday last, after calling the English " a dishonourable and treaty - breaking nation," said that when the future Chancellor or keeper of the Queen's conscience called the coronation oath all bosh and moonshine, the angels might well weep in heaven, and Christ look down in misery. He con cluded by saying that it was not the " expectation " of him and his few brother clergymen who have come over here lecturing that they will be able to turn the tide of public opinion, but they hoped to rally a chosen band to fight through blood and wounds to death. PRESENTS FOR AN AFRICAN SULTAN. - The presents which the King of Prusiia is sending to the Yeultan of Burnu (Central Africa) consist of a throne in embroidered velvet, a repeater, a dozen other watches of the ordinary kind in gold and silver, six needle-guns, twelve revolvers, six burnous worked with gold thread, six plain ones, several dozen of fez caps, coral necklaces, and perfumes. His African Majesty had manifested a desire to receive a carriage, but the difficulty of forwarding it was too great. It would have had to be taken to pieces and transported on the backs of camels across the whole of the Sahara, and as there are no coachbuilders at Burnu, men wou:d have had to be sent from Europe to reconstruct the disjointed vehicle. Besides, this monarch already employs in a very curious fashion a canche which Queen Victoria gave him. On solemn occasions his Majesty has the equigage drawn by the grandees of his Court, he him self marching on foot by the ide. FENIAN DISCOVERIES IN BIR3IINGIIAM.—A dis covery of important Fenian documents has been made in Birmingham. On Sunday afternoon last a house in Park-street, which is chiefly inhabited by Irish people, suddenly fell to the ground, the inmates sustaining rather severe bruise?, and some of them having a narrow escape with their lives. While some workmen were engaged in removing the debris of this fallen building, they came upon some curiously-written papers, which, from their nature, were at once banded over to the police. The documents, on examination, proved to be a detailed list of instructions isued for the guidance of the members of the Fenian brotherhood. Minute directions are given as to I, the raising and drilling of men, and the organisation of a I system of secret police to circumvent the Government, together with instructions as to conducting correspondence, and how to act in certain emergencies. The authorities are making inquiries into the matter. MATRIMONY UNDER DIFFICULTIES. -At St. Mary's Church, Weymouth, an unsuccessful attempt to unite a couple in the bonds of marriage was made by the Rev. A. Davidson. The bridegroom had been fortifying himself for the ordeal with powerful stimulants, and had rather exceeded the bounds of prudence. Ile got on verywell with the service as far as the momentous " I will," but there his comprehension seems to have failed. He was desired to repeat after the clergyman, who recited " I, William, &c., rtake thee, &e." "All right, sir," said the aspiring Benedict, " Repeat after me," was reiterated. " All right, sir." " I, William," was again attempted. " Right, sir ; that's me." This went on for some time, Van the clerk handed him the book. He managed then to spell " of," but gave it up as a bad job, observing that "he was no scholar." The minister was at last obliged to desist, saying he could not go on with such a mockery any longer. The bride groom cheerfully assented, with " You're right, sir; it is a regular mucker." The parties then left the church ; but a more successful attempt was made the next da7,--Dyreet .70tirita CArQuitle. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1868. THE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The AnglQ-Brazilian Times of the 22d of August publishes the following• narrative of the events which occurred in connection with the evacuation of llumaita, and the subsequent surrender, after a struggle of more than a week's duration, of the remnants of the Paraguayan garrison : " To evacuate Ilumaita the Paraguayans had 80 or 100 boats, and the evacuation was going on for a week before it was completed. First the families were removed, then the sick, the prisoners, a large quantity of munitions, the remainder of their food, and finally the garrison, the outposts being main- tained to the last moment to deceive the Allies Almost all the non-combatants, and probably al least a third of the garrison, passed through the lake in the middle of the narrow peninsula without exciting suspicion ; and it was only on the with drawal of the outposts at Humaita that the Allies became aware of the fact that the garrison was withdrawing to Timbo. The Allied forces in the Chaco were then raised to 10,000 men, and the gun boats were brought up and grape was poured into the narrow peninsula, which, however, being covered with bush, thickets, and tall reeds, favoured the concealment of the Paraguayan movements. Hidden in the thickets the Paraguayans had some heavy cannon, which played on the vessels ; while, op posed to the allied position, they had a strong bat tery which guarded them (from attack on that side. They transported boats overland to the lake, and armed some with small cannon, and during the night of the 25th of July no doubt many escaped, being assisted by the Paraguayans in Timbo. Dur ing the 26th the escape continued, but the allies made great exertions to open space for their fire and to carry small cannon over to commanding points. In doing this they were frequently at tacked by the armed boats. At night on the 26th a great effort was made by the Paraguayans to escape in the darkness, with 30 to 40. boats and 600 to 800 men. Being discovered, a heavy fire was kept up upon them, and some of the boats were forced to return ; but others, with the support of the armed boats of the Timbo Paraguayans, suc ceeded in passing, but with heavy loss. Gelly by Obes says they lost 500 out of 1,000. Two more flats with cannon were brought from Timbo and placed in the lake, and on the 27th the Brazilians dragged over some from the river to contend with them on the lake. After a reconnaissance upon the 27th, in which loss was experienced, on the 28th an assault was attempted by the Brazilians, to the number of 3,000 to 4,000 men, upon the battery which the Paraguayans had, but they were received with S 3 severe a fire from the battery and from infantry posted in the woods that they were forced to retire after losing 400 men in the vain attempt. Fights continued daily and nightly between the allies and the garrison, aided in their attempts to escape by the Paraguayans of Timbo, and on the night of the 29th the last sent over some 20 boats to transport part of the garrison across and carry cooked meat to the rest. Only a few succeeded in getting over because of the fire poured in from 11 cannon and a large number of troops. On the night of the 31st some 12 boats made an attempt to escape, but were beaten back by the armed boats stationed on the lake. They, however, returned suddenly, and, overpowering one of the boats, succeeded in passing and escaping. At mid night of the Ist of August another affair occurred, eight or ten Paraguayan boats making the attempt to pass the line of armed boats, but their move some dead the boats to land move ments being seen the one in which Colonel Hermosa went was run down and destroyed with all its crew. Eight boats were captured, and their crews mostly and killed eexamining drowned. ng th e bodies O n dead women were found dressed in soldiers' clothes. Of the 30 or 25 erewomen, one with au traversed by a ball. Some were likewise among the oi w nt o hf a u en n r t d , wounded hutonwsgeo children a o r r m t w h r a e s e were saved. Up to the 4th the night fighting continued, but on that day Father Ignacio Esmarats, a chap lain in the Brazilian hospitals, obtained permission to try if he could effect communication with the Paraguayans, as two officers previously sent to summon them to surrender had been driven off with bullets. In that he was successsful, and on the sth the Paraguayans on the peninsula sur rendered to the number of 98 officers and 1,230 men, the commander, Colonel Martines, being among the number. They were three days without food, and some 200 were prostrated by exhaustion ; 300 were sick or wounded. The official bulletin of the army says that the lakes, woods, redoubt, and their surroundings are choked with bodies—that only some wounded, women, and General Allen were able to pass the Timbo; that the Marquis de Caxias went to the Chaco after the capitulation ; that the evacuation or taking of Timbo will occur shortly ; that columns are preparing for an attack on Tebicuary; that Burguez has been shot by Lopez ; that a prisoner says the people are all against Lopez ; that Lopez, when attacked and routed on the Tebicuary and with his rear cut off, must either surrender at discretion or flee alone, abandoned by all, or soon, tortured by remorse, if he be susceptible of it, appear before God to give an account of the extermination of the Paraguayan nation. The surrender of the garrison occurred on the annivere ary o f t h e surr ender of the Para guayans in Uruguayaua three years ago. The conditions of capit u l a ti on s tipulated that the gar rison should not be forced to serve against Lopez, and that the officers might keep their swords and choose the allied nation in which to reside. The commander says that the effective force of the garrison, when it evacuated Humaita, was 2,500 men. The prisoners were not badly off in regard to clothing. The loss of the garrison is supposed to have been 400. The loss of the Allies in the ten days' desperate struggle on the peninsula, were seri ous, not being lesr than 500 men ; the marine lost six killed and 21 wounded in various boat fights from the 29th July to the 4th August. The official returns of the Allied losses on the 16th July give them at 1,029, of whom 228 were killed ; on the 18th 290, including 66 killed." On the 30th of July a number of ironclads com menced the bombardment of the works at the mouth of the Tebicuary, and on the same date the demo lishing of the fortress of liumaita was begun. The number of cannon captured inside and on the Chaco amounted to some 200, all of which, together with the chains forming the boom, were divided between the three Powers. It was announced that Timbo would be at once attacked by land and water, and that a column of 10,000 to 15,000 men was organis- ins for immediate operations upon the defences of Tebicuary. The Anglo-Brazilian l imes says :—" It is reported that a Cabinet meeting held immediately after authoritative news of the evacuation of Humaita was received it was determined to prosecute the war until the objects originally aimed at were obtained. For this reason no relaxation in the forced recruit ment carrying on in all parts of the empire is mak ing, and the remitting of troops for the seat of war continues, a body of about 300 having been sent forward. The general changes noticed phviously as being made in all the numerous branches of the public service dependent directly or indirectly upon the Executive are still going on vigorously in all' quarters, and must result, especially as forced re cruitment will be carried on, in materially strengthening the position of the present party hold ing the reins of office, and in securing to it a large majority in the next Legislature. His Excellency the Visconde de Itaborahy has not yet announced his financial measures; but, notwithstanding the absence of any official statements, it is understood that the deficiencies of the Treasury are inA with continued issue of national paper currency. The situation of affairs in the Argentine Confede ration is serious, in consequence of the cotnplica tions between the national Government and Urquiza and the attitude of the latter since his Entre Rios troops collided with and routed the troops of the new Governor of Corrientes upon the frontier of Entre Rios Corrientes. Both parties are assum ing a warlike attitude towards each other, and it is feared that a civil war is on the point of breaking out." The British gunboat Linnet had gone to Timbo, and received Dr. Stewart. The abandoned fortress of Humaita is described as inferior in its position and construction to Curu paity. The form is an irregular, almost circular, polygon, with a perimeter of some 7i miles iu length, mounted with 200 cannon. The works fol low the course which the nature of the soil pointed out and rendered so defensible. The ditch is 16ft. wide and 13ft. deep, in general. The parapet is 6i ft. wide, and, on the side of the allied positions, is sustained inside by trunks of palms, and shows signs of age. The glacis is natural, and the abattis on it was of little strength, being merely boughs of trees without connection or fastenings, without combina tion with the palissade, or protected by a terrepleine from projectiles. The line that was opposed to the allied armies is covered with salient angles to give cross fire upon assailants. On the south side the works are naturally defended by lakes, which ewer them to the river. On this side only small cannon were placed, and the abattis was only a sham of branches. On the river side the best works and the heaviest cannon are found. The former consist of six large and well-constructed batteries, of which the London battery is the only one casemated. This one is 160 paces long, with a parapet 8 feet thick, all of masonry. No large cen tral redoubt existed inside the fortress. It has in side a very large exercise ground, round which buildings were ranged, with barrack room for 6,000 . men. Furniture was got in all, and in the officers housesquantities of preserves, oil, wines, and pickles were left behind. As the buildings were in com paratively good condition, all the hospitals and de posits were being moved from Corrientes to it, and it will be the basis of future operations. In the Argentine Legislature the Presidential question was postponed until the arrival of Sar miento. At Montevideo banking operations con_ tinned under the new regulations, and the Legisla ture was engaged on several railway bills, including one from below the Falls of the Uruguay to the frontier of the Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH.—Last night a public meeting of the supporters of Mr. J. Morgan Howard, the Conser vative candidate for Lainbeth, was held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. Mr. Fowler occupied the chair. At the close of the proceedings, a reso lution was passed recommending Mr. Howard to the constituency. BOSTON.—Mr. T. Collins, who formerly repre sented Knaresborough in the Conservative interest, has been accepted by the Conservatives of Boston, as a candidate for that borough, along with Mr. J. IV. Malcolm, the sitting member. .11..11L1VAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Glasgow; Sir A. Orr in the chair. The report, an abstract of which appeared hi The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIR3IAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the directors had been careful in limit ing the expenditure of capital during the past half year, and they would in futute keep the expendi. ture on that account as low as possible. The works of the branch in Ayrshire were now all in progress, and would be completed for a stun smaller than the amount of capital provided for them. The directors regretted being involved in so many miles of new railway, as the completion of those works might have been spread over a number of years, and been completed as the minerals of the districts were wanted, but the foolish extensions of a neigh bouring company, who were pressing into their district, forced them to take up the ground. Had we known they were hurrying so headlong into their present position they might without loss have saved a great deal of their pre sent expenditure. The capital of the company would, in consequence of the arrangement made with the Caledonian Company, be reduced to the extent of £266,000—viz., £200,000 in share capital and £66,000 in loans. It was satisfactory to be enabled to mention that they had arranged with the directors of the Caledonian Company for a settlement of all their differences with regard to competitive traffic—(loud applause)—and that, looking forward to the opening of the Greenock line, they had arranged for carrying the Caledonian Company's traffic for the west harbour of Greenock, and they would take this company's traffic to the east harbour, and the expenditure of half a mil lion of capital would thus be saved, and the public would have the advantage of both routes, and from the spirit in which negotiations were now being carried on, the traffic of the district which they both served would be worked to their mutual advantage, and to that of the public also. Had this wise course not • been departed from by their great neighbour, and measures of defiance and destruction not been threat ened, they might have been quietly enjoying a very large and increasing dividend, and dividing a larger amount than they ever paid. If railways • were wisely managed there was a great future pros perity before them, and the public would ultimately gain also by cheap and convenient carriage of pas sengers and goods, in place of wasting further money in duplicate lines and Parliamentary and engineering expenses. All this immediate benefit had been, however, deferred by the folly of the last few years. The directors were much disappointed that the traffic had not continued to increase in the same ratio as in previous years, but they had en deavoured by economy of management to make the net results as favourable as possible, and their en deavours had been so far satisfactory that the net receipts per train mile, after paying all expenses, were 2s. 4d. for the past half-year, as against ls. 11d. fur the corresponding period, and this result had been arrived at without depriving the public of a liberal train accommodation. They regretted very much to declare a dividend at a lower rate than 5 per cent., butstill the position of the company was better than at the corresponding period of last year, when 5f per cent. was declared, as upwards of £5,000 more bad been charged against revenue, on account of maintenance and renewal of way ; and at that time the interest on unproductive capital, amount ing to £15,700, was paid out of the contingent fund, the two sums together being equal to more than 1 per cent. dividend on the ordinary stock of the company, and the amount expended on works yet unproductive had increased by upwards of £lOO,OOO. (Cheers.) Mr. ItONALDSON seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which was unanimously BURY ST. ED3ILTNDS.—Mr. Greene and Mr. HardcaEtle, who now represent this borough, have issued their addresses, seeking re-election ; and Mr. R. S. Parry, of Bilbam-hall, Surrey, has come forward as a second Liberal candidate, at the in vitation of a number of the electors. It is stated that the Conservatives intend to bring forward another candidate, and there is consequently every prospect of a severe contest. HALIFAX.—Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. Akroyd at tended a Liberal meeting at Halifax last night and solicited re-election. Mr. Stansfeld said the important questions for the new Parliament would be Reform, justice to Ireland, and education. As to Reform, the first thing demanding attention would be the repeal of the ratepaying tests, which he had voted against. He believed the object of minority representation was to weaken the power of large constituencies, and if not remedied there would be a large Radical measure of redistribution of seats. Justice to Ireland demanded the disesta blishment of the Irish Church, and he believed the land question would speedily have to be dealt with. The effect of a Conservative Government had been to, increase the waste of the national finance. When the new Parliament met he believed Mr. Gladstone would be brought back to power and be the leader of a compact and earnest majority. He would then be able, and it would be his duty, to bring about a considerable reduction in the national expenditure. In answer to questions he declared for the Ballot, but would not say whether he would vote for disestablishment of the English Church, and said it did not matter whether bishops were in Parliament or not, forithe Imperial power was in the people. LINCOLNSHIRE (SOUTH).—Mr. George Hussey Puke, M.P., has issued an address seeking re-elec tion. He says, though a true Liberal, he is no Radical, and is prepared to advocate and support such measures as are in his judgment conducive to the interests of constitutional progress. Mr. Wil liam Earle Welby has also issued an address. He says he should view with the utmost regret, and, so long as he could with any reasonable prospect of success, should oppose any measure having for its object the severance of Church and State ; but he cannot conceal from himself that circumstances may arise under which to prolong that resistance would become not merely useless but mischievous. He must therefore reserve to himself the right to act in such a case to the best of his judgment. agreed to. The dividends were then declared on the pre ference stocks, and at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum on the ordinary stock and shares of the company for the past half-year. After a short discussion on a proposition of Mr. Dreghorn, for running a train in the morning and one in the evening between Glasgow and Paisley, on Sundays, the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. MONMOUTHSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the offices, Newport, on Wednesday ; L3rd Tredegar in the chair. The report, an abstract of which appeared in Ti Sun, was taken as raad. _ , • The CHAIRMAN having formally moved the adop tion of the report, . Mr. CARTWRIGIIT at some length referred to what he considered the mistaken policy of the directors. The purchase of the Brecon Canal, at a cost of £61,000, ought never to have been entertained, and it had proved a great loss to the company. They had an offer of the old Rumney Railway, but it was allowed to go into the hands of another company. This he considered a fatal mistake to the interests of the Monmouthshire, and they would feel it in time to come. He further objected to the subscrip tion of £20,000 towards the Alexandra Dock. Mr. BATCIIELOR commented upon the circum stance that Mr. Gratrex, a director, was suing the company for compensation in reference to a tram way required for new lines. The tramway had been purchased for £lOO, and £5,600 was now asked for it. Mr. GRATREX explained that his solicitor, with out his authority, had made the claim, and he had since agreed to leave the matter entirely in the hands of his co-directors. Mr. LONGMAN said the true cause of the decrease in the dividend was the continual increase of capi tal. He urged the closing of the capital account. Mr. HUTCHINGS thought the suspense account was a serious item, and contended that immediate steps should be taken to wipe it off. _ _ _ _ . . MID - LINCOLNSIIIRE. Lieut.-Colonel Western Amcotts has concluded an active canvass of the electors of Mid-Lincolnshire, and yesterday ad dressed a large meeting at Bassingham, where he was well received. MID - SURREY.—The Hon. W. Broderick and Mr. Henry W. Peek, the Conservative candidates for this division, have been holding a series of public meetings during the past fortnight, at which reso lutions approving them as candidates have been passed by acclamation. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME.—Mr. W. S. Allen, M.P., visited this borough on Wednesday evening, and . addressed about 2,000 of the electors and future electors in the covered market. He reviewed at great length the proceedings in Parliament during the past three years. He advocated the disesta blishment of the Irish Church, and the adoption of new law as to the tenure of land ; condemned the financial arrangements of the present Govern ment; and said he would substitute for the game laws a new law as to trespass. A vote of coufi - dence iu Mr. Allen was unanimously carried. NOTTINGHAM.—Five candidates for the represen tation of this borough are now fairly in the field— four Liberals and one Conservative. It is said that two ocher Liberal candidates are to be brought for ward, but who they are to be has not yet trans pired. Mr. Osborne is recovering from his illness, and is expected in the town shortly to address the electors. PrathßoE.E..—Mr, 1, Merrick has been introduc e d Mr. LAWRENCE reminded the meeting that in former years £71,000 had been transferred from revenue to capital, and they were justified in re couping that amount through the suspense account. The report was then adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 4 peg cent. per annum was declared, payable on the sth of October. A resolution was proposed that the subscription of £20,000 to the Alexandra Dock be confirmed. Mr. CARTWRIGHT opposed the resolution. Mr. BATCHELOR, Mr. PHILLIPPS, and others held that increased dock accommodation was required for the port, and it was for the interest of the Monmouthshire Company to have new docks esta blished. The resolutio❑ was carried almost unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. MAURITIUS. The traffic returns on the Mauritius Govern ment Railway, 66 miles in length, amounted for the half month ending the 31st of July last to £3,161, against £3,285 for the corresponding half mouth in 1867, showing a decrease of £124. to the electors of Pembroke as a candidate on Libe- the fourth week in August amounted to $128,406, ral principles, and has been well received. against $139,454 in the corresponding week in POOLE.-Mr. Charles Waring, the present Libe- 1867, showing a decrease of $11,048. The total ral member, addressed a crowded meeting at the receipts for 26 days in August amounted to Town-hall on Wednesday evening. He expressed $407,888, against $461,879 for 27 days in August, his firm adherence to Mr. Gladstone as the leader 1867, showing a decrease of $53,991. of the Liberal party. SUFFOLK (VEST).—It is understood that arrange ments are being made for a contest in this division, which has been for many years regarded as a " Con servative monopoly." Lord Augustus Hervey and Major Parker offer themselves for re-election i❑ the Conservative interest, but the name of the Libe ral candidate has not yet transpired. SURREY COMMERCIAL DOCKS. The general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Dock-house, Fenchurch-street; Air. C. Churchill in the chair. The report stated that the number of vessels ad mitted into the docks during the first eight months of the present year was 2,102 sail, having an aggre gate tonnage of £501,172 tons, against 2,206 sail and an aggregate tonnage of 451,892 tons in 1867. Ile tonnage of wood-laden vessels was largely in excess of that docked in 1867, while there was a decrease in grain-laden vessels. The stock of corn in the granaries had, however, throughout the year been larger than that held in 1867. The enl age ment of the Acorn Pond would shortly be com pleted, and afford an addition dl space of eight acres for the stowage of floated timber. The directors recommended that a dividend of £3 per cent., free of income-tax, be declared on the ordinary stock and on preference stock A for the past six months. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it showed that the business which really paid the dividend, namely, the wood business, had increased about 50 per cent. In respect to the grain business, he admitted that it did not look so well on paper as it did last year, but the board had no doubt whatever that when the accounts were male up at the end of the year the grain business would be found as goo 3, if not better, than that of last year, inasmuch as the landings of grain con tinued on a very favourable scale. Mr. P. 0. KINGSTON seconded the motion, which was agreed to without discussion, and the dividend having been declared, the proceedings closed with thanks to the chairman. ERIE. The traffic receipts on this company's line for seem months ending the 31st of July last amounted to $7,680,068, and for the corresponding seven months of 1867 to $7,593,250, showing an increase of $86,818. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN. The trac receipts on this company's lines for 7IIE DRAINAGE OP BRIGHTON. The Lancet contains a report on the drainage of Brighton, where, notwithstanding a mortality less than that of any corresponding quarter for ten yearn previous, the awakening to the importance of sani tary improvements has unfortunately been tardy, and is not by any means complete. The residence of 80,000 people gives rise to a vast accumulation of refuse matter, and if, instead of taking effective measures to remove it from the immediate proximity of man, is stored up in some 10,000 cesspools, it cannot fail to contaminate the wells, saturate the foundations of the houses, and shed its baneful in fluence over the inhabitants at large. The Lance t thinks it is a great misfortune, which demonstrat es the weakness of the central government, that the two authorities of Howe and Brighton should be permitted to exercise independent jurisdiction with in so small a limit, and that it is the want of a powerful and intelligent executive which has Pre" vented the adoption of a comprehensive scheme for the drainage of the district. The sewage, instead of being conveyed away and used upon the land, is turned by no less than six outlets into the sea oa the frontage of the town. Some of them at presen t are small and insignificant; but the thin edge of 3 vicious principle is inserted, and with the gro wth of the town the evil will attain proportions when it can no longer be remedied. Opposite Waterloo road are the outlets of Hove and Western Bright oll ' The former consists of a large iron pipe, projecting 417 feet into the sea, which discharges an immens e volume of dark and stinking sewage. A few PP' iS eastward is the Brighton outlet, which is shorter, and delivers its sewage close in shore, within 60 Yar ds of the bathing boxes near. These outlets require to be prolonged immediately. One single PiP e would effect the object, but from want of cordiality between the authorities nothing in common apPe likely to be done. The main outlet of Brigh ton is opposite the Old Steyne. The effect of dischaqi ing the sewage seaward is seriously discussed. l e _ the absence of an intercepting scheme, a fu rther prolongation of the present outfall, and the erection of a cowl over the extremity of the pipe, are recoin mended, which would secure a more perfect diffusia ll of the sewage in the sea. The evils of these oat falls are in their infancy. Of 14,000 houses, le sfi than 4,000 are drained into the present sewers. k contract is going on for new sewers, capa ble or draining 6,000 houses in addition ; bat full ad vall ,: tage is not yet taken of those which have been al ready ready made, as public opinion does not enable th e authorities to act with the energy required. `t here are probably 10,000 cesspools, hold d ing from two ..1 three waggon loads of filth. It often takes several nights to empty them, and the labourers en; ployed suffer from the stench. Th er e are f° kinds, some requiring to be emptied yearly, a l d. some may go on for 50 years without being Ope n e n , e. Every year they become more difficult to Inan a bd Their effect is to produce nervous depression . , .li ti t e l neuralgia, which, if they do not increase raorta destroy the advantages which the invalid is nor' ice/ to expect from a visit to the town. The tai , urges the authorities to quicken their mov erac e nts tic lest they be outstripped by their more eue r g ir it neighbours. It applauds them for their public sP ony in providing amusement for their visitors and th e fort for the poor, and it feels assured that it/s a is conviction of necessity which is alone svant i aff ni° or d the present case. In this matter Brighton ca ° ag to be extravagant, the mere loss of sewag e bee n _ f or nothing compared with an unsullied reput ation the sea in shore. ;no t l3° FIRE IN LlVERPOOL—Yesterday 1110 0 " .° i ° t9s c h premises of Messrs. G. Byrd and Co tea In er re- James-street, Liverpool, were destroyed by fire. 11°P TV mises were extensive, and contained a valuable W e insurances amount to £5,000. D YERTISEMENT.]-11enceorth no one will doubt tue ' ArO lO- 0 , properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revel euts ples sing e Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands a pee it has already received from Invalids whose posit ion '1743 Polo deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Ifoliness ';eo,roAo whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirtlayetteoli unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "I t be r " July 25th ;—" Rome, July 21,1866. - The health o . r eul, ‘ Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all otr o lee; dies, ho has confined himself entirely to Du BarrY'a 7 r y pd Arabica, Food, of which he consumes a plateful at e,:f 0 01,0 It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on hia, s liy." E of his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too hle 8 ' 21": N o .l° extract a few out of more than 68 , 000 cures: — Cure 0 0 . 0 0 the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver C wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous de all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and tuectort tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lo r e dyspep s ia, Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many Yea r ! AvsP e e No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony crow s pi t , nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatul eh l'27o: sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure Nu. ' nit- James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' dise?ea to. .40 spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deagore h t l`p portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury Bar Lia m sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Pa' 11''' name is most audaciously attached. 5 lbs% 0 0 In tins, at Is. 14d .; 0 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 40. ad• os 12 lbs , 225. ; 211bs ,40s.—Also Du Rutay'S ' , 12 ett o e.. CHOCOLATE POWDER 's packed in tin canisters; -rfr,„,,e 0 0 0 25., for 21 caps at 3s. 3d.. for 48 cups at 65., for 25a , rlse for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cur o n _ f re c 1 1, and 555. tins ore sent free o; carriage in Bugia n "o of Post Office Order.—BAßßY nu BARRY a nd Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chem Birs. Deer, tb li ELLICE—On the 16th inst , at Broo k House, J-- wife of Major-Gen. Ellice . , t C.B ,of a son. j Efi 3e o i KIRKE—On the 16th inst. at 32 . 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