The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

______ _ ............._ TH E SUN LON DON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5 , 1868. _ ..... •_ . . ...._ , ~..... _ `,19_ 0 _44_§.R9440 p - ,.041 Ravi: COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED I not afford to pay the extra charge. The houses many instances because, accumulated experience LATEST INTELLEGENCE. i: , ,, y . y; • . il• VICTUALLERS. I will soon be in the same way reach al, and after a must be of service if rightly applied. It is the .• , , (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) i r 1 1 11 E only article really suitable fcr that purpose, time the railway will lose instead of gaiuiug by the tendency of the present day to jump at conclusions, ssatee .s oeise t 4 4,o . ,„ i, ,4 :, • 1 - ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. ..Address - ' ' Aiitiftu r Eibtit lklisiT. 155, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. decrease in the passengers. Besides this, those and therefore it is important that due regard be AMERICA. se--- ---san .• who had before travelled first and second psil to the assertions of those who have devoted .The f libeii6t I Sar i / liael received positive information NEW YORK, Aug. 4. eib . ' . t or i g t a , ns, n t o h t e wi g t u h e s s t t a i n o d n in of g a th e e us d t e o n m ia s ls un o io f n th h e etiveenpr CLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED class will now go second and third ; thus we may their lives to patient investigation and deep re- The Cunard steamship Scotia arrived out at 1 VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN.Government anca VITILLIAINI HOLDICH and CO., No. 105, confidently predict that the arrangement just searches. p.m. to-day. and Belgium has been discussed between the two Cabinets. 'a y Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No. 5, entered upon has been an erroneous one in many In foreign countries, more fully than in our own, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. A Customs treaty is at present in force between France The Pavement, Clapham-common. thud Belgium, and the union now under discussion is to be respects. At any rate a storm of indignation has we may notice the success of what is called " pre- Closing Prices :--Gold, 146 i ; sterling exchange ' effected by complete modification of this arra e• ment. •11 ABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, now been raised that will not easily be allayed, and ventive medicine," but there is still much to do to on London, 1101. 5-20 U.S. Bonds, 1882, 114} ; One of the chief officials connected with the Department expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Ap,ons and Towellings of the railway companies may expect what usually meet the requirements of the day and the " exi do 1885, 1121 ; 10-40 do 109 ; Illinois, 1503- ; •, .1 of Commerce at Brussels is expected to arrive in Paris every description. Patterns gratis and post free. happens in such cases, namely, that all their sins gentles of a fast-growing population." One Eris, 581 .. Cotton, middling Upland, 301. Petro- shortly. The Liberty say s no thi ng o f H o ll an d , w h o, if will be remembered against them, and many real of the most satisfactory results of recent im- this report be true, is wiser th an to allow herself to be C ARDIGAN JACKETS mad e ex p ress ly f or B ar leum, standard white, 35. mixed up in such an aff a i r . u e,Warm and Elastic, from ss. Gd. ea c h, f or with some imaginary errors laid to their charge provements has been the general increase of sani , The Emperor is repo r t e d t o b e grea tl y en j oy i ng h i s a dies' and Gentlem e n's u se . WILLIAM HOLDICH before lon g. It is especially unfortunate, too tar knowledge. This had long been demanded, , y HUNGARY. "h o lid ay " a t Pl om la res. He takes part in the rifle and Co., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. for those who wish to visit the sea side at but time passed on without giving any change for PESTH, Ang. 5. shooting, drinks beer supplied by the cantinierm, and is winning the hearts of the inhabitants by that this season that this new difficulty should the better. The health and well-doing of the corn- In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the altogether simplicity which is so charming in the great. His tirrlLLTAxt lIOLDICII and CO., LICENSED munity depend a great deal upon this knowledge Hungarian Diet the Army Reorganisation Bill was rusticity will soon, however, be interrupted. His Y V Vievearreits' DRAPERS, Established 1842, at 103, have been put in the way of travelling. It seems Fleet-street, City ; Southern Branch-No. 5, The Pave- hard that the public should have to pay for the being extensively circulated, and in no other way adopted in principle by 235 against 43 voles, after return to Paris is fixed positively for the 15th moat, Claphani-common. Patterns gratis and post free, of the present month. If we may believe the Pays, can we hope to mitigate the effects of overcrowding a debate which lasted five days. Tith Price List. consequences of the recklessness of speculators, as it is not the fault of those who are called upon to and other drawbacks of large towns. Tow ar ds th e The prorogation of the Diet will take place the question of fixin g th e ti me f or th e next e l ect i ons will TO LICENCED VICTUA LLERS. ma k e up the def i c i ency of the companies that such conc l us i on o f hi s a dd ress, t h e Pres i dent referred to about the middle of August. be the first occupati on o f hi s M a j es t y on hi s return to the ESTABLISHED 1842 a want of discretion prevailed. Railways are . the study of the classics, and lamented that those capital. No date has yet been fixed, an d th e O ppos iti on VILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., --. think that a surprise will be attempted. Th e y are, how - V V LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No, among the triumphs of the age, but care and eau- who cultivated them so seduously, should have SPALN . e ver , s t ra i n i ng every nerve t o b e prepared for a general election at any time, and to make the most of the chance 103, Fleet-street, corner of Farringdon-street ; and at No. "indifferent to the cultivation MADRID, Aug. 4, lion are necessary that there may not be au abuse been so which seems to present itself of increasing their majority. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). of science and the promotion of art." At the The official Gazelle of to-day publishes a decree of them, and the monopoly they possess makes it The controversy on the Nimes affair continues to same time he truly said that what was required entrusting the Minister of Finance with the Minis- occupy the French papers. It might be termed . a severe . lIIIEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. more expedient that due consideration should be Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. given to all changes that are made. was not a substitution of the classics, but an addi- try of Public Works ad interim during the absence discussion if its acrimony were not diluted by its excessive THIS EVENING, OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. Pennington: length. I have already stated the chief arguments on lago, Mr. Ryder; Desdemona, Miss Ada Cavendish ; Emilia, tion to them. In an eloquent passage he advocated Mrs. E. F. Saville The arrival of the mail steamers from New Y ork, the fthe University' e importance o making e a place of •Senor Catalina. _____ this question, and I see nothing new. The Government Preceded by, at 7, THE INTRIGUE. Commence at Seven. with full d e t a il s o f th e c l os i ng d ays o f C ongress, where their professors might send their students in journals, however, not only justify th e ou t rage , b ut pra i se PORTUGAL. the officials for their firmness and vigilance, as well as for confirm the announcement previously made that the the confident expectation that they would be soon LISBON, Aug. 4. -their moderation !Is there, after all, one law for the T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. most objectionable clause in the bill for the protec- fitted and improved to their greatest extent, and The Duke and Duchess of M on t pens i er h ave G overnmen t an d anot h er f or t h e su b ject? The Avenir Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, tiou of naturalised Americans has been struck out. landed, and taken up their residence in Lisbon. Nationale bitterly replies to the o ff ic i a l p a p ers b y quot i ng THIS EVENING, at 7, A ROUGH DIA 'IIOND. Messrs. G. where they might learn much that w a s va l ua bl e , so an article by Louis Napoleon from the Proyres du Pas The Spanish frigate Villa de M a d r id h as l e f t f or Beltnore, Ashley ; Mrs. Bilington, an d Mi ss L ennox G ray. It will be remembered that what was called the re- that they could go forth to their several v ocati ons de Calais, of October 4, 1843. Here, the present Emperor A a quarter to Eight, THE FLYING SCUD. Messr s . G. Cadiz. complained that even Ireland-wretched Ireland-enjoyed Bolmore, Bitlington, Ashley, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, prisal clause empowered the PRESIDENT, in case of with minds fitted to perform their duties and C. J. Smith; Miss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Louisa Moore, bliss greater liberty of meeting than France. Maria llarris, and Miss Lennox Grey. the detention of a naturilised American abroad, to - hearts devoted to the cause of humanity. EGYPT. Prince Napoleon is, I am told, about to pass the To conclude with THE FAST COACH. Messrs. J. G. Taylor, arrest any subject of the offending Government R. homer, W. H. Eburne; Miss Nelly Harris, and Miss E. Pitt.' bathing season at Havre. He has not yet visited his royal then in the States. T ALEXANDR lA, Aug. 4. his clause, as it was speedily It i s encourag i ng to k now that, in spite of the relative. The Sultan's firman promoting the son and heir It 0 YAL ea ST e, RAN , D rs s T a ii EATIt E. pointed out, would have enabled the PRESIDENT to alarm and uneasiness felt in some quarters on ac- It is positively stated that the directors of the Credit So of the Viceroy of Egypt to the rank of Vizier was Mobilier, who were condemned to indemnify the share- THIS EVENING, at nd 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE: Messrs. detain an Ambassador himself. In any case, count of the drought, the accounts of the harvest read publicly in the citadel of Cairo to-day. holders, will appeal against the judgment of the Imperial Belford. Harcourt; Miss Sheridan Supposing the powers not to have been are highly encouraging. The hay and barley, in- Court. After which, THE FIELD OP THE CLOTH OF GOLD. MeAsrs Thorne, James, and Robson; Mesdames Sheridan, obtained, so far it produced a ready excuse deed, show lamentable traces of the want of rain, Cheri f Pasha, the Regent, the Ministry, dele- An abundance of rumours is set in circulation just Clo niall, Hughes, Newton, and ~ .ydia Thompson. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE, for a quarrel with any European State of which an and many kinds of vegetables are likely to suffer ; gates from the Assembly and the Consular body now in place of news. One of the most important were present. affirms that Count Usedom, the Prussian representative unscrupulous President might . easily avail himself. but with regard to the great staple-corn-the re- , ROYAL AMPHITHEA FRE AND CIRCUS, The Egyptian press is warmly discussing the at Florence, is about to be recalled. The manifestations HOLBORN. The Senate has amended the bill by striking out the turns of the year seem likely to verify the old adage which have accompanied the rifle meeting at Vienna have : OKRA, in his original and sensational Flying Trapeze Act, question of the consular jurisdiction. every evening. The most brilliant success ever achieved by any clause, and substituting for it a phrase authorising -" Drought never bred dearth iu England." The produced a profound, and, I should imagine, a disagree- ' _______ i artiste. ONR A'S Terrific Flights on Two Bars. the President to suspend diplomatic relatio ns w ith hi g h pr i ce o f b rea d h as b een so great a trial to the able impressi on i n P russ i a . SERVIA. A new breech-loader ha s b een t r i e d a t thi s mee ti ng. ! ONRA, the most wonderfal o • ItA' i Incredible Sorn,rsit and perfect perform ance ever ults and Pirouettes. the offending Government. This puts th e ma tt er poor an d struggl i ng c l asses d ur i ng the last twelve- THE EXECUTION OF THE CONSPIRATORS. It is the invention of a Norwegian manufacturer, named wit to , .iel on a very different footing, and bears less the ap- months that it will be an absolute boon to the tom- The BELGRADE, July 28. Torten. Whilst the Emperor Francis Joseph was present : The groat attraction of the evening was the first appearance of oars in his performance on the flying trapeze, after the man- pearauce of courting a quarrel. The position of !nullity to see the long-looked-for reduction The conclusion of the trial of the assassins of on Thursday the inventor fired fifty-three shots in three n3t. of Leotard; but ha far outdoes the efforts of that celebrated minutes, the experiment being remarkable, not only for I artist. His flights on two bars, in the conr.ie of which he makes affairs in reference to Feuianism renders legislation in the quarteru loaf. That we may hope for per- Prince Michael has been speedily followed by the most incredible somersaults and pirouettes, took the house by this wonderful rapidity, but also for great precision of aim. I storm, and the applause was Of the most enthusiastic descriP- On this topic a matter ef sonic moment, and of manent improvement in this respect is plain from execution of th e cond e m ne d. Sentence was pro- It is likely that the Austrian Government will take this ( lion."-Morning Advertiser, July 22, new weapon into consideration. I " A more genuine and flattering reception we have never wit- course all such clauses are framed with a view to the accou n t s w e rece ive from foreign sources. Last bounced yesterday, and this morning, at 6 a.m., sLs ly nl .;. nor at the same time one more fully deservea."-Stanaard, M. P-, a worthy shoemaker, was some time ago tne the naturalized American Irish. England, how- year, in addition to the failure of our own harvest, the prisoners were executed. With the exception In a I lition to M. Onra, the incomparable Scones in the Arena object of a night attack, followed by robbery. Not that l ' as usual, and ant appearance of 11,111 e. Al i t , e i r t o. _ . ever, is not at all inclined to dispute with the United the supply from an arts of the Continent was de- of Jose Jerewich, who was sentenced to five years' he was garotted, for the rubber adopted the good old (:' m Trig Per , imprisonment, and against whom no fur ( n l !, l e t i s,' L e lt t a l. S y e - a v n en dS c a ° t rn m ll l.Y l , e a e t a l t .lalF-Pa'st Tw o o r . a 'Childret; States the allegiance of those who have voluntarily ficient, and even in the Western States of America proof of corn- fashion of placing the point of a knife to his throat, 1 nu ter ten, half-price. follow e d, of course, by the usual polite intimation. O ur 1 abandoned her dominions. All she does is to insist supposed to f urn i s h an inexhaustible granary, the plicity in the a ssass i na ti on was discovered at th e I worthy shoemaker fought valiantly at first, but turrets- LICENSED 1 7ICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN that no one, whether Ecglish, Irish, or American, crops ran short. This year, on the contrary, the trial, all the other accused persons who had been dered at the touch of the steel. He reluctantly parted e /11_ R. GLENIE, of the Siort ; lig i-aibrary. shall foster sedition and concoct treasonable con- glowing sunshine has produced very different re- arrested, to the numb e r of 14, were condemned to with his money, and still more reluctantly gave up his I •4, Connaught-terrace, Hy h e Lonlon, W., be:,, tt. rei nip be e n and the Licensed 'ictualles in genora spiracles within her realm. With this no foreign salts. In Illinois the harvest is more abundant watch, which, though old-fashioned, and an admirable ° that he has been appointed Agent for the above-Mai paper in secretary (Triscovich), death. Prince Alexander Karageorgewich and his re h presentative of the turnip style, was a . family keepsake.. , Union to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " Tan Sus,' statesman has anything to do, and most assuredly than was ever previously known, while in all the cud can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in tusvu and Philipp Stankovich, T II victim gave information to the police, describing the i Ir country. he has no right to object to the strict maintenance Western States the crops are good. The Continent footpad, who, it appears, was foolish enough to 11 G. lt. U. begs to inform the Trade that he is Agent for hiss who had not been captured, were sentenced in .ATEST EDITION of "THE SUN," and can supply it earlier of the integrity of the QUEEN'S dominions. The tells the same story. Everywhere oppressive and default to 20 years' imprisonment. go about robbing people with a largo dark it tacos any other man ba London or Country the evening of pulili • 11 talon. Nu connection with any other peson Etti:y's Ito: '9, bill as it now stands contains nothing with which unusual heat, everywhere an abundant supply of A.t half-past five the condemned men left the scar, easily recognisable, on his cheek. No less Wrig!A's, and M'Call's Guides. All the Daily Papers, Maga: • it • than three years elapsed, and the departed turnip- n Cues, and Periodicals as soon as published. Agent for the Joint- foreign Governments need quarrel, and is well wheat. In Italy, where they are pretty well accus- Stock Coal Wmpany. Orders by post attended to. I watch lived only in this re nembrance of the shoemaictr. s ' that the Senate, generally wiser and more cautious homed to an atmosphere which astonishes us less cooler fortress and proceeded to the place of execution which was in a valley a bout two miles from the One day he mountel to the top of an omnibus, and occi, s] THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " than the House of Representatives, has removed mortals, the reports are that the heat has been mar- town, on the shore of the Danube. In order to avoid pied the only vacant place. Lo !on his right hand was d ' supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. and amended its obnoxious features. venous, but the corn-fields have been crowned with the never-to-b e -f orgo tt en scar . Th e a id o f th e po li ce was ' ALEXA NDER (late Brooks), Ne ws p a p er Agent, no, 4, Old sought, and the own er o f th e scar searc h e d, th oug h w i t h BC Uavendish-streer, Oxford-street. The Senate has been endeavouring to deal al s o u nusua l wea lth . F rom F ranca an d A ustr i a and a large crowd a repo r t h a d been circulated that the execution would takeplace in the evening at 6 o'clock, what hope or expectation does not appear. The venerable g' with the financial problem, and has passed a bill other parts comes the same weleome news, and we watch was, however, found upon him. It had, we are P' IV? II S GRAI N G E R LICENSED providing for the issue of 3 per cent. loan certifi- must all heartily rejoice that at a time of gradual old, pleased him, and he had . keptit-bause,l presume, 1 0 . w i f e VICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST, SHEPHERD'S-BUSH. whereas in was in the morning that the actual tra gedy occurred. Nevertheless, even at that early SPORTING EDI HON of "THE SUN '• can be seen at cater to the amount of 25 millions of dollars for the recovery from long-continued depression we are was . unable to dispose of i . t , or, perhaps, because n l l v AR UNGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight principles were opposed to sacrilege, though not to robbery; click. redemption of compound interest notes. The likely to have so powerful an auxiliary to renewed hour an immense number of persons were assembled, . who occupied the heights surrounding " The Black or-who knows-because he was of opinion that his scar PI I\l House of Representatives has agreed to this ; prosperity in cheap bread. Valley," as the place of execution is called. In th : was not sufficient means of identity. 1 FIIIE LATESr EDITION of " THE SUN " tit it, supplied as Roan as published, containing all the LATEST though the great question of the national debt is valley itself a long f res hly-d u g trench was to be di NEWS and SPORTING INTE LLIGENCE, by H W HARRIS, Newspaper Agent, 4, Blackf r i ars - roa d , L on d on, S . left untouched, to be fought out at the elections. NA VIIL INTELLIGENCE. seen, along the edge of which 14 posts were erected. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS .DA I'. tic _.,,,.______ th In the East and in the West the opinions on the ..._______.„ TIM E " SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE, subject differ very widely, since it is not a question • The Board of Admiralty paid their annual visit A large body of troops who were present kept the METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. nc a. Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, of inspection to Sheerness Dockyard and the ships crowd at a distance, and formed square along tho stl delivers the nee's: seerrios of "THE SUN -at the earliest of party but of position. The producers and tax- .. Sea in the harbour on Monday. The members of the bank of the Danube. Precisely at six o'clock ch possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver ;.) 'pies iu Town, the Suburbs, and in many part, of the country payers object to the exact fulfilment of the Board present were Vice-Adiuiral Sir Alexander seven closed carriaees arrived from the fortress of T u a g n u e: t d ty r F . I ; B. T. l' ' ' 2! W 1 to' F. 1 D. WR. ,to cu ei a t a comparatively early hoar the swim evening, say 40 utiles by 5 A ,12 1 9 pr n:ce o'clock national obligations in spirit as well as Milne, K.C.8., Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Col- Belgrade, out of which the condemned men 8 a.m. i_ -- - Orders by post punctually attended to. in letter, while the bondholders and national cre- pays Dacres, K.C.8., and Rear-Admiral Sir stepped, and were conducted by the gendarmes in I•• bore -1 11 i ke r r n deen glff: B'2 W. I. 1 `g. • f.b, - 1 r TBE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." ditors generally naturally approve of the full dis- John Charles Dalrymple Hay, F.R.S., M.P. Lord , Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., secretary to theand Leith - - front of the posts. They were not ironed, Shields Searlx,ronzh 29 Off. 65 63 S.S.E. 1 3 S. E, b. 3 g T. I.,..)LMES begs to inform his friends and the public charge of their dues. Radical and Democrat shape all of them preserved a serene, almost cheerful de- Yarmouth - 2 gem ra:ly that he supplies the LATEST EDITION of - THE Board, and Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Construe- llelcler SCA "as soon as published.—No. 10, Hampstetia-road, :V. W, their course accordingly, and it is almost the only ineanour. The sentence of the Court was first read tor of the Navy, were also present. The Board 2 , 12: 5 e: 1 1 . _ 1. - T. ....- 7.. z. T . _____ ____ ..___ 1.. 7. de; subject on which we find them taking the same arrived at Sheerness by train at 1.2 o'clock, and out to them, during which the prisoners smoked. t r r e d g e ss e a ti l w Fog : g s I v. 3 1 w m i ,.. cit. - 3 ii i arralylinEaySbUe aeon _4-," TH g li i : vie l:l B, l ll l t ß ho D sr %D T I; side. We cannot but hope, however, that the good were met by Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W.Walker, At the conclusion of the reading, Costa Rldovano- rievigeoali - I N ' G W N N ENV O s F or th ‘ te ‘ at JEI YM k NTo vs h ouse , ~ Th e swa n and Horse Shoe," sense and right feelings of those Americans who are K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness ; Cap- witseh and his two brothers begged permission to ne le e n Cle a ixi:: B"M: a2a. 2 ws..irw.c6r;ifl'B7i3l 2re ..ittle Britain, City, E.C. sensitive to their national honour will carry the lain-Superintendent W. King Hall, C. 8., of the This ri e tz h a e l ' i s c ° F Y: 0 :7 80 f f :2 ' 2 8 2. V. 0 1 /s?..E, f b e n' . --- I t . I P ITIHE o SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE day, and that the National Debt, principal and in- dockyard, and the principal officers of the port. The being allowed to approach their brother Paul. Plymou th eenien • Etr: a a * AT . 2 4 S.S.W. b e l l ' 7- i 1 3 ,,, i delivers the L 1 TE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, Board visted the storehouse, the masthouse, the eing . granted . , the three brothers advanced to him Portsmouth 29901. 66 ,63 E.S.E. 1 3 B. B. c.o. 1 - 8 ; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, terest, will be faithfully discharged to the full London 94.5. steam-factory, the Naval Barracks, and the ships and kissed his hand, he responled to this act of O'peGrisNez 29915. 64 62 W.S.W. 4 7 N.E. c,f. - 2 . - • value . of the amount advanced. Americans re-engine, in the basin and docks. Anew steam fi • head affection o f eachby a of f t e h rv e e m n . t kiss upon theßrest .. .V:gg. 64 9 . Ay.W. I 3 N.N.W. b.f, 07)8 i in `PORTING.-JUAN ROBERTS supplies thelips and fore- must restrain their impatience, an. I try to lately delivered at Sheerness, and manufactured byVeV e e l le t rti .j 3 .B B ` s- 2 W.N. W. 'l , ' 4 4 4 W N•W %• - 1 if 1., - 1 LATES 1' EDITION of " THE SUN" as soon as pub- Biarritz .... 30'07.5 . . 68 66 W. 7 —.--: .r: 7 5 26 liahel-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. lighten the burden by spreading it out Messrs. Shand, Mason, and Co. of Blackfriars- Then commenced the pinioning of the condemned. li'rurliisa:::: = = = = = = = === Th over the years to come. :They may rest assured road, London, was next inspected. The furnace Er res ie b eere . .2. - := _7_ :1 - ::: -....: 1 7_ 1. - = we , Their eyes were bandaged, and their hands bound MITE LATEsr EDITION of " THE SUN " to .a. be seen Every Evening by 8.10 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK'S, that even in a commercial point of view the addi- was . . laid with wood and shavings, and in 10 minutes Leong .....1. - - - - - -- - per behind their backs, while they were fastened to the Toulon ....1 29•975. 64 64 S.S.E. 3 1 4 S.S.W. .n.r ? 3 Pritann!a, Kensal New-town, after applying a light the engine was started Heart's Con-I Wet tional outlay will well repay itself, since the nature , - posts by ropes passed round their necks. They stood with steam of upwards of 801 b pressure. A jet i te eoll ( fil l e i j • l 30'11s. 60 59 S.S.W. 1 1 3 1 S.W. b. - 1 from ' EDITION of " T I HE LATE - HE SUN " at of the national credit is far beyond any temporary in the following order :-I, Petkowitsch ; 2, Vilo- lint I JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Weliington," Wellington -street two inches in diameter was first tried, and Strand. ' oalanla+lnr. ,-.; ,L,w,... .s•-.. 7 ....-..-.1,-. riE LATE EDITION of "THE SUE " J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. tional outlay will well repay itself, since the nature of the national credit is far beyond any temporary calculation of dollars and cents. The House of Representatives has passed a bill providing for the Provisional Government of the three excluded States—Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas. It is plain that the delay in their so-called reconstruction is welcomed by the Radicals as an excuse for preventing them from returning their quota of members to the Electoral College. Owing to the terms of the Constitution, it would be difficult even for them to maintain their system of exclusion against the Southern whites. The feeling against such exclusion is growing stronger and stronger. The Georgia House of Representatives, we learn, has passed a resolution in favour of the removal of the political disabilities of white inhabitants. Georgia is making progress, for General MEADE has issued an order declaring the supremacy of civil law. It is high time this supremacy should be recognised all through the South, and it would be absurd, if it were not so oppressive and iniquitous, that martial law should be maintained throughout a peaceable though deso lated country. It is only surprising that there should have been so little evidence of disaf fection in the South considering the high spirit of the people, and the indignities to which they have been subjected by the Northern Radicals. Hap pily time is fighting their battles, and we can hardly suppose that after the change which Congress must undergo after the elections that the same oppressive and arbitrary policy can be pursued in defiance alike of reason, humanity, and justice. The British Medical Association commenced its session at Oxford yesterday, and the President, Dr. N. ACLAND, delivered an interesting address. The attendance of scientific men was more than usually large, and foreign as well as British were present. The President addressed himself, in the first place, to the considei aiion of the position of medical knowledge iu the world just now. One great draw back to success he traced to the fact that medicine had too long been looked upon as an art, and thus separated from science; whereas it should be distinctly shown to be one The Bard of Admiralty paid their annual visit of inspection to Sheerness Dockyarl and the ships in the harbour on Monday. The members of the Board present were Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Col poys Dacres, K.C.8., and Rear-Admiral Sir Juhn Charles Dalrymple Hay, F.R.S., M.P. Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., secretary to the Board, and Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Construc tor of the Navy, were also present. The Board arrived at Sheerness by train at 12 o'clock, and were met by Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W.Walker, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness; Cap tain-Superintendent W. King Hall, C.B , of the dockyard, and the principal officers of the port. The Board visted the storehouse, the masthouse, the steam-factory, the Naval Barracks, and the ships in the basin and docks. A new steam fire-engine, lately delivered at Sheerness, and manufactured by Messrs. Shand, Mason, ani Co. of Blackfriars road, London, was next inspected. The furnace was laid with wood and shavings, and in 10 minutes after applying a light the engine was started with steam of upwards of 801 b pressure. A jet two inches in diameter was first tried, and attained a pressure of 100 lb on the square inch. After working this for some time, some stop valves were opened and others closed, when, without stopping the engine, six jets were all work ing at the same time. Various other alterations in the jets were shown, proving the power and effi ciency of the engine. The trial was in every re spect satisfactory. The engine is of the double horizontal construction, and is the largest of its kind, the weight being nearly three tons. A similar engine, by the same firm, is nearly ready for Pem broke dockyard. The Board then embarked on board the Admiral's barge and inspected the Lap well, to consider the advisability of building large basins and docks, and a satisfactory opinion of the place was expressed. The party after the inspec tion returned 'to shore and dined with Admiral Walker. On Tuesday morning their Lordships inspected her Majesty's ships Formidable and Cum berland, and were received on board the former ves sel with manned yards and the usual salute. After leaving the Cumberland they embarked on board Admiral Walker's steam yacht Wildfire, and left Sheerness at 11 o'clock for Chatham. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieutenant Horace J. M. Pugh to the Peterel ; Lieutenant IL C. Wallis to the Lion ; Lieutenant Charles A. Crespin to the St. Vincent ; Lieutenant Robert W. Evans and Lieutenant Alaric F. Grant to the Rattlesnake, ad ditional, for disposal. Then commenced the pinioning of the condemned. Their eyes wore bandaged, and their hands bound behind their backs, while they were f as t ene d t o the posts by ropes passed roundtheir neck s . Th e y s t oo d in the following order :- 1 , Petkowitsch ; 2, Vilo itsch ; 4, Jekowitsch ; 5, wp t g ei ttesrwcohi 8, w t c ts h c ; hG 3 ; , 06k A , OA t raei Georg t srocg Radovanowitsch ; 9, h ; 7, Sjubomir Ta ditachßadovano- ; 10, Sima Nenadowitsch ; 11, Rogitsch ; Nenadowitsch, with their wl2it,sePhau; 14,Ra d o s v y a e n t o o z w A i r t SC N I3 i 13, C os t a Radovano faces to the west. Four gendarmes then advanced with breech-loaders to within six paces of the posts and fired upon the first prisoner in the row, Petkowitsch, who died instantaneously. The body was then detached from the post and laid in the trench, and the same course of procedure was pursued towards all the rest, who were each shot separately. At the exe cution of Nenadowitsch a sad catastrophe hap pened. One of the bullets aimed at the condemned struck the post to which he was fastened, and glan cing off entered the eye of an officer, Lieutenant Basil Miatowitsch, who was commanding a com pany of soldiers on the ground, killing him in stantly. The St, Petersburg Gazette says that there is now in the Russian capital the richest Chinese library in the world. It consists of 11,607 volumes, 1,168 wood-engravings, and 276 manuscripts. The books are on all sorts of subjects, and among them are several rare works, one or two of which are unique, there being no copies of them in even the largest libraries of China. The library was collected by M. Skatchoff, now Consul-General in Pekin, during a residence of fifteen years in the Chinese Empire. Recently M. Skatchoff offered to sell it for 9,000 roubles (£1,400) to the Imperiaf Library at St. Petersburg and the Russian Academy of Sciences, but both institutions were compelled to decline the offer for want of funds. At Alton, in Staffordshire, the overseers have put the names of the female ratepayers as claimants of votes on the church door. The extraordinary calmness with which the con demned men met their !fate has been a matter of general remark. Sima Nenadowitsch continued smoking even after his neighbour was dead. With in a quarter of an hour the tragedy was over, and the bodies laid in the trench, which was at once filled up and levelled with the earth. " of the sciences that precisely interpret the phe nomena of nature." Of course in many cases the physician cannot always wait to establish conclu sions according to the rules of science, but may act in emergencies on his own judgment. True and false medicine, like the tares and the wheat, now stand together, said Dr. ACLAND, and of course the task is to separate them one from the other so far as possible. There is a good deal of truth in one re mark here met with, namely, that people nowadays are apt to disregard and to treat with contempt the experiences of the past. This is a mistake in The statue of Leopold I. which. has just been " inaugurated" at Antwerp is in b:onz,-... The King is represcntcl on horseback, with head uncovered and hat in hand as if saluting the people. The following inscription in French and Ylemish appears on two sides of the pedestal :—' 'The Commerce and People of Antwerp to Leopold, First King of Independent Belgium ; voted 1856 ; erected 1868." The other two sides bear the words ; spoken by the King in 1856 when on a visit to A.ntwerp, and his reply in 1831 to the delegates of the National Con. gress :—"Human destinies offer to task more noble and useful than that of being called to maintain the independence of a nation %pd to consolidate its liberties." UIIIE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. snTirs "Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden to PM. t z .,,N , LONDOV, TVEDIVESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868, We certainly are unfortunate this extremely hot season. In the first place there is the general elec tion, which will convert what ought to be the holi day season for many into a period of strife and con fusion. Besides this some other circumstances combine to render the present summer a most try ing one. The state of the railway world is any thing but satisfactory, and the public will have a practical illustration of the coils of combination in the increased fares they will have to pay. It will be remembered that Parliament very properly refused to sanction the proposed amalgama tion of the railways south of the Thames; hut we meet with an illustration of the saying, that " a wilful man must have his own way" in the course now pursued. Determined not to be entirely outwitted, the Directors have raised the fares as much as they could under the pre scribed limits, and the hardship thus inflicted upon the inhabitants in these neighbourhoods is of course consilerable. Those who are in the habit of tra velling daily must of course feel the infliction ; but SO far for the present their complaints are useless, and they must content themselves with the privi -1 y,c of grumbling, which is the last resource of the i:1-used. Under these circumstances, we should think that the House of Lords must con gratula'e themselves upon having reversed the de cision of Ulu House of Commons in this respect. We have certainly no proof that had the Amalga m ttion Bill passed the fares would have been higher than they are at present, but at the same time it is open for us to think that they mi g ht have been so. 'The unfortunate victims of these augmented fares will yet find a NENIESIS to avenge their wrongs, for already there are signs and sytnptOms of discontent apparent which cannot be called insignificant and of n, consequence. In order to understand the nature of the changes a. tuntion may be given to the communication of a house agent, whose property is in that part affected l y the increased fares, and of others who are put to inconvenience by the change. We hear from him that already those who let apartments have received front their lodgers notices of removal, for they can- FRANCE. Bo URSE, August 4.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cent. End of month... ItaPan Loan 3 per Cent End of mouth 7O 55 Mexican Loan ... 22 50 Credit Mobilier 257 50 Do. Bonds End of month... 258 75 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier —1420 home Debt — End of month... Deferred — RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ... 882 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 565 Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian Lombard 402 North of Spain 55 Saragossa Itoman 421 LORD NAPIER OF MAGDA LA. Lieut.-General Lord Napier of Magdala, G.C.8., G.C.5.1., yesterday honoured Mr. John Watkins, of Parliament-street, with sittings in uniform for a variety of photograph 3. Consul Cameron, who is slow'y recovering from the serious ill ness caused by his long imprisonment, also visited Mr. Watkins's atelier yesterday, and sat for several negatives, thus completing the artist's most interesting series of por traits of the whole of the rescued captives from Abyssinia —ten in number— and crowning the collection with that of their noble and gallant deliverer. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant, palatable, and invigorating. Sold by all Chemists.—[Advt.] EXPLANATION, Barometer corrected and reduced to 12 deg. a sea level. Theletter r., rising; f., falling; a., steady—indicate direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm Weather ; b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.—fog ; h.—hail l.—lightning ; m,—misty, hazy ; o. —overcast, dull; r.—rain ; 6. snow I.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. Uniform atmospherical pressures exist over our islands this morn ing, and readings are generally somewhat lower. On our south coast, however, scarcely any change is observable, but since last evening there is a tendency of pressures increasing. The highest pressure, on the W. coast of France, exceeds the least, at Greencastle, by about a quarter of an inch. Temperature is generglly high, especially in the North. The winds have been generally light from S.E. to S.W. Cape Gris Nez has had a northerly wind—force 7. Winds now are from the westward in the S,—fresh at Biarritz ; but light and var r able over the British Isles, On our E. coast the weather is fine: much fog and mist prevails on the southern coasts of England and Ireland, and on the west coast of France. Rain is reported fross the south of Ireland. Sixty-nine and a quarter seems a short price for a loan whilst the English Three per Cents. are at 94 ; but the French funds have always been at a great discount, and the price at which the new loan is to be issued is above the average. There is, moreover, every likelihood that the favourable conditions just announced will not long con tinue. Notwithstanding the reckless financial policy of the Empire, the subscriptions are expected to be more than tenfold. The commercial difficulty is much the same as in England. There is a want, not of money, but of enterprise : the unequalled sum of 43 millions sterling in the Bank cellars betokens a time of great stagnation. The full conditions of the loan have been published in the Moniteur. Should the total sub scriptions exceed the sum of the loan-217,160,000, with a supplement of £860,000 the applications for the five-francs rente, the minimum amount, will be granted, and then a proportionate reduction will be made. The payment of the capital will be in this way: A deposit equal to the interest on the amount applied for will be acknowledged by a receipt. The receipt will be exchanged for a certificate of loan, upon which the preliminary deposit must be increased to ten per cent. The remainder will then be payable in eighteen monthly instalments, ending February 21, 1870. Instalments not paid within one week after they fall due will be charged five per cent ; after one month the whole amount of the certificate may be required, or the Minister of Finance may order the sale of the route. Payments in advance, at the moment of subscribing, will only be received on demands for sf. of rente, which are not subject to reductions ; a discount of 2 per cent, per annum will then be allowed from the date of the closing of the subscription ; after the allotment anticipated payments of one or more instalments will he permitted only on certificates of less than 100 f. of rente, and the same deduction of 2 per cent. will be accorded. The funds have already gone up rapidly. The state of French commerce is such that this enormous sum will be swallowed up, and, like Pharaoh's fat kinc, leave no trace. An interview is spoken of as probable between the three Ministers of War representing Baden, Bavaria, and Wiirtemberg. This meeting, which is fixed fur the end of August, will discuss the question of a permanent military commission for the common defence of the three States. Hitherto Baden and Wiirtemberg have not received this proposition very favourably on account of Prussian opposition. We are not, however, informed that Count Bismarck has given his consent to the project, and the smaller States are certainly not likely to act with out it. It will be remembered that by a treaty signed shortly after the war of 1866, the South German States placed their armies under the control of Prussia in the ease of war. THE NEW DUKE. It las been finally decided, says the Post, that the Marquis of Abercorn shall be elevated in the peerage a' Ireland, under the titles of Duke of Abercorn and Mar quis of Hamilton. The marquisate will be of Strabane, in Ireland, and will not, therefore, interfere with the Duke of Hamilton's marquisate of Hamilton, county Lanark, in Scotland. The notion of conferring the dukedom of Ulster upon the Lord-Lieutenant has been abandoned, in consequence of the earldom of Ulster being one of the titles of the Duke of Edinburgh. The possession by the noble marquis of the viscounty of Strabane in Ireland enables her Majesty to raise him in that peerage. Hez Majesty can only create a new Irish peer, of whatevez rank, after the extinction of three Irishpeerages, and aftez the lapse of twelve months after the expiration of the last of the three, in order to afford time for collateral claims to be asserted. At the present moment her Majesty is not in a position to create any Irish peer for some little time to come. The present act of the Crown is one of pro. motion in the peerage, and that power is not limited by any restriction. THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the British Medical Association began at Oxford on Tuesday, under the presidency of H. W. Acland, M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., the Regius Professor of Physics in the University. Dr. Stokes, of Dublin, is the retiring president. The meeting is expected to be one of the most important and influential which the association has yet held. It will extend to Friday, the 7th inst. The following are the presidents of the sections :—Sir William Jenner (medicine), Professor Rolleston (physiology), Mr. James Paget (surgery), Sir Charles Locock (midwifery), and Mr. John Simon (State medicine). One of the most striking features of this meeting, both in a scientific and social aspect, will be the president's soiree in the University Museum, a building singularly adapted to give brilliant effect to such a reunion. Among other scientific attrac tions which this soiree will offer, Professor Beale, of King's College, London, has undertaken to exhibit, with a lavish profusion of iniscro,scopes, a large number of very choice microscopical preparations, illustrating the tissues in health and disease. The PRESIDENT, in his inaugural address, after acknow ledging the honour which the association had conferred on him, said he proposed to take a general survey of the position occupied by medical knowledge, and the objects which ought to be held in viewindiscussing the formation of the character and temper of the medicalprofcssion. Medicine had too long consented to regard itself as an art, and so dis tinguished from science. It could never fulfil its mission until it recognised and substantiated its claims to be one of the sciences that precisely interpret the phenomena of nature. In so far as medicine was purely scientific it was not in harmony with the average mind of mankind, and in so far as it was empirical it was at variance with pure science. Having shewn how medicine adopts scientific methods, Dr. Acland proceeded to consider the relations a medi cine to the wants of modern society. The relations of medicine were modified by the multitude of its agents. But if the philosophic base of medicine has been changed during the century by its relation to science, it has been as much modified by the exigencies of a fast growing population. It would not be true to say that till modern times no great crowds of men have been densely congregated into unhealthy masses. There were great armies before the Christian era ; there must have been great overcrowding in ancient Rome. A careful and detailed sanitary code was enforced on the Jewish people at the time of the exodus. Rome paid no small attention to sanitary works. But one of the peculiarities of modern life is the tendency to increase in great towns. In England between 1841 and 1851 there was an increase in the great towns of over 100,000 inhabitants of 23 per cent., and in the follow ing decennial period, from 1851 to 1861, there was in France an increase in towns of similar mag nitude of 50 per cent. The evils of modern civili sation had not yet been met by the clear-sighted and systematic superintendency by which they can be sub dued ; but he hoped ere long to see the relations which ought to subsist between this department of the science of medicine and the community at large investi gated systematically by a royal commission. Ire antici pated that one result of such a commission would be the elevation of the duties of an officer in State medicine to that of a recognised profession. The Government would have to define the duties to be discharged by public health officers, and the General Council of Medical Education would be able to direct the educa tion of those who aspire to the performance of the duties so defined. The problems arising from the condi tion of great towns were become part of the literature of the day. "For my own part," said the professor, " I know nothing apparently so damaging to the reputation of the study of classics, as a means of forming completeness of character, as its active antipathy in former years to the cultivation of science, and its passive indifference to the promotion of art." The address was frequently ap rlauded. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The Registrar-General's weekly return of births and deaths in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom states that in the week that ended on Saturday, August 1, 4,416 births and 3,770 deaths were registered in London and in thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 31 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 28 per 1,000 in London, 25 in Edinburgh, and 23 in Dublin ; 25 in Bristol, 39 in Birmingham, 36 in Liverpool, 36 in Manchester, 39 in Salford, 38 in Sheffield, 39 in Bradford, 39 in Leeds, 36 in Hull, 26 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 30 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 35 per 1,000 during the week ending the 25th ult., when the mean tem perature was s'l deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 31. The'mortality from diarrlicea sheaved a decline last week in London, but had further increased in several of the other large towns, especially in Birmingham and Liverpool. The annual death-rate from this disease during last week was 4 per 1,000 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5 in Bristol, 6 in London, 9 in Bradford, 10 in Manchester and Hull, 11 in Liverpool, 12 in Salford, 13 in Sheffield, 14 in Leeds, and so high as 20 per 1,000 in Birmingham. There is little doubt that under a well-organised system for treating the disease in its earlier stages, this mortality would rapidly decrease, and the risk of the more dangerous choleraic forms would be reduced to a minimum. In London the births of 1,078 boys and 1,028 girls, in all 2,106 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,026. The deaths of 859 males and 806 females, in all 1,665 persons, were registered in London during the week. It was the thirty-first week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,583, The deaths in the present return exceed by 82 the estimated amount, but are less by 220 than the number recorded in the preceding week. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 691, the corrected average number being 638. Five deaths from smallpox, 46 from measles, 47 from scarla tina, 9 from diphtheria, 32 from whooping-cough, and 52 from fever were registered. Thirty-eight deaths from cho leraic diarrhoea or cholera were recorded ; 27 fatal cases were those of children under 3 years of age ; 5 children who died were aged from 2 to 10 years, and 6 fatal cases occurred in adults. The deaths of G persons from sunstroke were recorded ; and in many cases the fatal termination ol diseases was stated to have been accelerated by the great heat. The deaths of 10 infants from syphilis, of 4 persons from burns or scalds, of 13 persons from drowning, of 8 infants from suffocation, of 6 persons who committee suicide, and of 4 persons who were killed by horses os carriages in the streets, were registered. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 801 in. The barometrical reading increased from 29'51 in. on Tuesday, 28th July, to 30'16 in. on Saturday, Ist August. The mean tempo rature of the air in the week was 67'6 deg., Which is s'; deg. above the average of the same week in 50 year , (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day tempe rature was 90'1 deg. on Tuesday, 28th July. The lowest night temperature was 49'4 deg., on Saturday, Ist August The entire range of temperature in the week was, there fore, 407 deg. The highest reading of the thermomete in the sun was 167'0 deg. on the 28th July. Brighton intends to invite the British Associa tion to hold their next annual congress there. It is claimed as a fact worthy of note that then( have been fewer persons apprehended during the Good wood Races this year than for several years past, as th following statistics will shew :—ln 1805, 12; in 1866, 10 in 1867, 21: in 1863, 8. The announcement in a contemporary that se Vera gentlemen who have distinguished themselves as supporter of the Government would be advanced to the dignity o the peerage after the prorogation, is very premature Nothing of the kind will be done at present, and autum will be far advanced before any such question is taken int consideration by the Prime Minister and the Crown.- Post. THE AMERTCAN MINISTER.—The Hon. Reverd' Johnson, the new United States Minister at the Court c St. James's, is expected to arrive at Southampton wiN his suite, from Baltimore, on the 15th inst., in the Nort German Lloyd steamship Baltimore. Mrs. Lincoln, th widow of the into President of the United States, and he , are also expected _tho san4o gteamer. I tzs I e g i ff rt t TIER ATIAJESTY. OSBORNE, August 4. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Lou ise : and Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, drove ou t yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty and the Royal Family walked iu t b° grounds this morning. The Prince of Leiningen dined with the Queen last evening. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, Ac; companied by P r i nce Alb ert V ictor and rrn'' George, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Harding LITERATURE. Colonel Fortescue's Daughter. By L a dy Charl eg Thynne. Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett• Lady Charles Thymic has been fortunate io the subject of her new work. Her stories are alway s pleasantly written, and narrated in an interesting, manner, but in her novel last year, , 6 Oil the Li" , we could not congratulate her on the theme of h er selection. In he r new work, however, it is dif ferent. Colonel F or t escue ' s daughter, in t h e first days of her infancy, is the delight of her haPPY parents. Her young mother with difficulty allows her out of sight. An unlucky nurse walking with this treasure on Hampstead Heath, during a fair, meets a friendly butler, who offers to show her some wonders in one of the booths, which he tell° her she will never forget to her dying day. S h° , i rashly accepts the in v it a ti on , l eav i ng the b a b y Wit" a good-natured woman, who offers to hold i t, and she does not, we are told, to her dying d il l forget the adventure ! When she returns 1 01 inspecting the wonders of the show woman and WI are gone. Great i s th e consternat i on and gr i e f 0 the parents. Days of anxiety follow4with adver tisements and researches innumerable. At iitSt 3 cradle is deposited at Colonel Fortescue's door, containing to the delight of all beholders a baby' but also to the cons t ernat i on of all beholders, bc added, containing not one baby, but a couple Dressed alike, and possessing no distinctive feu' tures, no one can t e ll w hi c h i s TILE baby an d w hich the impostor. The parents decide upon keep 1 both children, a n d t reat i ng t h em exactly alike. doubt as to the identity of her own child embitter: the mother's lif e . Th e a f ter complications of the story may bo imagined. The main incident of course, is singularly improbable is nature, but it gives occasion to a very i n teresting story. The chara c t ers o f t h e two supposed sist ero are very capitally d rawn, an d the wise pp impartialit, ; of Colonel Fortescue, throughout the days of th el girlhood, contrasts with the capricious and P re y judiced feeli ngs w ith w hi c h M rs. Fortescue reg ard the child who m s h e b e li eves to b e an alien. " Fortescue's Daughter" will be a favourite with t " . " novel readers. Elephant Da un t s: B e i ng a S portsman ' s Narrative of the Search for Dr. Livingstone. By Henry Faul k ; ner, late 17th L ancers . O ne V ol. Pp. 32v. Hurst and Blackett. The very spirited frontispiece to this volum e gives lively assurance o f th e s ti rr i ng adventures () which it relates. I n a thi c k- tang l ed j ungle we .13d ourselves in company with no less than five fill ; mense elephants. The sp or t sman , ass i s t e d by °ll , O follower only, has already done good service. r f c/ ' d huge monsters lie dead among the long grass, 31 ', / , two others are taking to flight, one of them his trunk in the ai r " t rumpett i ng " loudly. 111 fifth, and the most f orm id a bl e, h as b een struck w„ the head, and is i n th e ac t o f f a lli ng, b u t 110 eo not fall unavenged. In his fall ho sends his de stroyer flying throu g h th e a i r , an d di sa bles t he formidable gun which ha s g i ven hi s d ea th-woun d. Never, perhaps, not even in the well-known fr °ll : tiapiece of S ou th ey ' s "D octor, " in wh i c h the "author" turns his buck upon those who cont e3l- plate his "portrait," n ever did aut h or appea r ee" picted in more undignified guise. In this piet ur4 ; before us, sur roun d e d , i t i s true, b y the tro phies °f his valour, the author appears in the air, and lite r; ally " upside down !" Thi s a d ven t ure with ti five elephants, of which full defail4 8r given at page 198, is only oae of many exciting scenes. Mr. Faulkner is evidently a keen spor t°. man, and whether the object of hs chase be e l ; phant, buffalo, or hi ppopotamus, he is e(11131; ready for the occ as i on , an d equally fearless the adventure, conducting us, as he does, through W i t, but little known, an d d escr ibi ng s i tuat i ons for t a most part unfamiliar, his work has a freshness an a merit which ren d er it consp i cuous among the sports and travels of the season. NEW POLICE ACT.—Yesterday the Act i° amend the law relating to the funds provided for defraY i l l l the expenses of the Metropolitan Police was issued• rate on all property asses se d t o th e poor i s to be 9,1. is th e pound, instead of as hitherto. The Secretary of 0' 3 0( may make an allowance t o th e ass i s t an t comm issioner £3OO in addition to his salary, for house rent. SUDDEN DEATH OF A WESLEYAN MINISTriI"; The meeting of Wesleyan ministers in Coliferen ee 6 5 , Liverpool had a peculiar solemnity cast over it on lin w r o fs by the news that the Rev. Alexander T. James, wh o : that town on Saturday for Huddersfield, for the purp ose ° ,• O preaching Sunday school sermons, had been found dc' a " bed on Sunday morning. THREE-CORNERED CONSTITUENCIES.— meet ing At a of the Liberal electors of Birmingham, held on 11° , 1 , - ; day evening, Mr. T urner i n th e c h a i r, to i mpress upon the 11 electors the duty of voting as they are reques ted 1 . 0 Liberal Association at the next election, in order to Secg° the return of three Liberals, the following letter front Bright, M.P., on the subject w a s rea d :—" R oc hdale/ .Aus, re , I.—Dear Sir,—At the ward meetings the plan for , turning three Liberals should bo th oroug hl y 0 1 1 )11° , 0 - and every man who votes for t wo can did ates, as r ec- 01 mended by the committee, should feel that he has d °ll , ° „ o 3 utmost to secure the return o f a ll th ree. With o ut a organisation the return of three Liberals is iciP° o st sible. With it you m ay succeed, and thus baff ~„ le th e ee offensive scheme ever devised for destroying the Wil lie :ill of the largest constit uenc i es. I hope the c andidates o t be held to be on a per f ect equality, and that the 013 : 0 effort will be made to return all the three. Ev er i e Teal who votes for two of th em i n th e manner propose Burs, most help to carry th e th ree .—l am, very t r uly, I Jolla BRIGHT." RAILWAY COLLISION AT WEY3IOUTII.--IL occurred on the London and S ou th-W es t er n Raillivai e l v , e o terday morning. Sh or tl y a f ter 7 a "b at hi ng train" l y e s- Dorchester to enable pers o n s t o b at h e at Weytnouth• terday the train had more passengers than usual, w he t : o o accident occurred at Weymouth station which a t on° 11 as threatened considerable destructi on o f p ro perty as W :teeP loss of life. The run into 'Wey mou th i s ov er a yell decline from Ridgeway t unne l, a b ou t f our vanes " 1 ; 0 00) on emerging from which st eam i s s h u t o ff, and the ,o b T aal belonging to the engine, as well as th a t in the gua r ' ° The are applied during the remainder of the journey %%icy metals at tho time were very slippery, and on near ie ,g . De ealg mouth station the engir e-driv e r discovered that hi s .. b to would not act. The guard was communic a ted b ut apply his break with greater force, and this was d er ' ; itS it broke soon after, and the train had nothing to a r o r° Co ilie progress until entering the station, when it came of sion with a kind of buttress erected /or the Pa r P ° t he stopping carriages. The collision was most sev, e _ o e u ,' its 1 - L ut m id barrier being broken into fragments and started. foundation, while the passengers were tossed a7 caos ed/ bruised. Fortunately, no serious injuries were The The although many severe flesh wounds were sustain e las o f the sufferers were conveyed to one of the waitinger °° , th Drs' station, when Mr. Arnold, the agent, together co, d o all Fox and Rhodes, were speedily on the spot, an d they they could to alleviate the sufferings of the _ On Tuesday the banks of the great lake I.l_eo % tor is-park were c row d e j w ith spectators to . t i Di st extraordinary match among four members 0 ", J o f ate London Swimmin g Cl u b. The match c eleiet'ivo,rieg competitors swimming in th tie Ofdillall the die apparel, boots, trousers, coat, bat, Atc . l o cone time° being GOO yards. The names o f the four Ar titers were Cromlie, Sprange, W. Bell , and Al tho L aiv i e „; half-past seven they took their pos ition on at °I) platform at the east end of the lake, au ,ro go al' j a signal they all dived in amidst loud c hooring: . 13,11. took the load, f o llowed by Morris, Cronalie, uroturn's this course they swam the length of the lek0, 1 1: , 1 y ea ing Bell went away from Morris and ere:I:IL. 3 ; 60. 4 abreast of Sprange. The race now becamed t e e e, t at a t for they were neck and neck for some ro _t e n _ . and s e% length Bell launched out some vigorous st fourth, s Dell easily. Morris was third and Crornlie four the heaviest of clothes and thick bolts. lia to as A ti ",ela ~' °,.