The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1865.

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Tin public are just now so deeply concerned in
the sufficiency of the law to protect them against
the vendors of diseased meat, that we wish to call
attention to two decisions of the Liverpool magis-
trates which show how large are its powers. Two
butchers, named B•anox and Morn.sorr, were
charged, under the several Nuisances Removal
Acts, with. depositing the owns° of a cow in a
slaughterhonee for the purpose of being prepared
for sale, tle same being unfit for human food. The
defendants were found by an Inspector of
Police in the slaughter-house dressing the
beast. In • state of health the animal
would have been worth from 121. to 141.,
and they had purchased it for 21. 7s. 6d.
It was dead when they began to deal with it, but
to save appearances they cut its throat. Mr.
RATES, a veterinary surgeon and a local inspector
of cattle, said. The carcase was very bad. The
" flesh, instead of being of • ruddy red, was of •
" sort of clay colour. It was a case of rinderpest;
" one of the worst I ever saw, and I have seen
" very many. No one acquainted with cattle
" could have made any mistake as to the oondi-
" tion of the bout." The magistrates, having
consulted together, said it bad been proved that
the two defendants were in partnership in
their dealings with this beast, and that it
was their intention to offer it to the
public for consumption. The public must
be protected against such practices, and in order
to deter others the two defendants must each go
to prison for three months. The magistrate. ex-
pressed their regret that the richer person who had
violated the Order in Council by selling the beast
to the prisoners was not before them ; but that
offender, it appeared, lived out of their jurisdiction.
After this zase bad been disposed of, °Bosch
Pus, • farmer of Higher Bebingtoo, Cheshire,
was summoned for depositing in a slaughter-house
the carcase of a calf which was unfit for
human food. Inspector REED, who saw the
calf at the abattoir, had called • jury
of butchers, who pronounced it unfit for
human food. The flesh was green, and so com-
plicated with diseases that be could not state ape-
&fully of what disorder it died. For the defence,
Mr. MIDOLEY, veterinary surgeon, of Birkenhese,
was caned, and declared that on the day before it
was seized the calf was perfectly healthy, and that
the only symptoms were those of over-feeding.
The magistrates, however, said they had no doubt
the defendant knew in what state the calf was,
and that it was unfit for human food. The case
differed from the former in that the calf had not
been affected with rinderpest ; but considering that
it was in a bad state when killed, and
was intended to be consumed by the
poor, they would not inflict • fine, but would
send the defendant to prison for one month.
The defendant's legal adviser struggled hard to
induce the magistrates to alter their decision, but
in vain. There was no appeal, and they refused
to grant a ease. The justice of particular deci-
sions must of course rest with the local ministers
of the law, but it will be sufficiently apparent from
the foregoing oases that the Legislature has invested
magistrates with ample powers for dealing with the
offeme of selling unwholesome meat, and we pub-
lish the facts for the benefit of all whom they may
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LONDON. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 14.

As it is understood that the Member for Liver
pool intends to renew his proposal for amalgama-
ting the departments of Customs and Inland Re-
venue, it may be well to remember what the Go-
vernment measure was, and what would have been
its practical effect. Besides substituting • Go.
vernment receiver for a parochial tax-collector—a
responsible for an irresponsible agent—and so
preserving the public from the unpleasant contin-
gency of paying Ursa twice, it would have
brought about one of the most important official
reforms attempted in the present generation. No
village or hamlet in England but would
have felt its influence, and it may be
fairly asked whether, if Mr. Hoesrau.
I e sincerely bent upon increasing the effi-
ciency of the public service, he would not do
well to direct his attention to an improvement which
might be easily effected, and to the usefulness of
which both officials and the Government are pledged.
To profess anxiety for centralization and economy,
and to oppose a measure designed to compass both
those ends only because it did not go far enough,
seems as sensible as if a pauper refused alms be-
cause they did not amount to a competence Mr
life. One leading feature of the Collection of
Taxes Bill was the appointing • central receiving
officer in all large towns. To the public it is •
matter of profound indifference what that officer
was previously called ; and in the childish
petulance which takes the authorities to task
for preferring one set of officials to smother—
y if salaries and small privileges male up
the question at issue---may be seen the effect of I
looking at broad public questions from a narrow
point of view. The opinion of the country and
the dictates of common sense alike point to some
fusion of the duties of this large department, and
it is certainly fairer to take the official !widens,
before Mr. Hoasr•zz'e Committee than to flip-
pantly write of some one's belief that " something
"is desirable." Reference to the Blue-book shows
us that the Chairman of the Board of Inland Re-
venue declared that if an office for the sale of
stamps and the receipt of revenue were established
in every town in the kingdom "it would be prao-
" ticable to abolish the present circuits of Excise
"oollootion, and to place the receipt of Excise
" duties and taxes in the hands of the same offi-
" oars ;" adding, "in that event the present col-
" lectors of Excise would become stationary at
"'the principal places in tl•e kingdom, and
" would be enabled to take the sale of
" stamps, do." In other words, a body
of men, ninety in number, and receiving salaries
of from 3601. to 750/. per annum, would be re-
lieved of duties which send them from home eight
times in every year, and in some cases keep them
out one hundred and forty days out of the three
huadredand sixty-five. The duties of supervision
and the responsibility of receiving and remitting
cash would be divided, as they should have been
long ago. When postage was heavy, and before
the principles of banking were understood, it
was legitimate and proper that an officer of the
Crown should take his station at the market town
ott regularly appointed d►ys to receive moneys on
behalf of the Government. This being so, it was
pavisetly natural that be should be also entrusted
w►th the task of looking after the subordinates who
levied the duty he received. But in these days of
railways and Post-office Saving Banks peripatetic
collection is an anachronism. It could be per
formed far more economically and satisfactorily in
ansi.her way, and while it is of course essential
that the officials scattered over the country should
be under efficient supervision, it is ridiculous to
advance this fact as a reason for the continuance
of the cumbrous machinery of " collections" and
" rounds" A few travelling inspectors with full
knowledge and competent authority would easily
perform the work of technical inspection, while
the three sources of revenue—stamps, excise,
and taxes—could be paid to a central receiving
officer, who would act as government banker for
the locality in which be was stationed.
There has been much speaking and writing
upon this subject, but all the schemes propounded
amount to this--a readjustment of the duties
imposed upon officials, and • fairer distribution of
their work. But those eager for sweeping inners,
one would do well to keep in mind the measure
introduced last passion by the Government, and
rejected by the very people most clamorous for
change. The reception sooonled to this Collection
of Taxes Bill was such that the authorities can
hardly be expected to bring it forward again un-
less called upon to do so by the voice of public
opinion. Bat the possibility' of augmented
efficiency, great retrenchment, and increased con-
venience to the public having been shown, it is
for those professing to agitate for these ends to say
whether the work to which the late Mr. douse
WOOO devoted a great portion of his life cannot
be followed to its legitimate cooolusions. When
the Excise. Stamps, and Tax departments are
amalgamated in reality as they are in name, it will
be time to speak of consolidating them with ether
breaches of the public service. Meanwhile, ft is ss
ungenerous to censure an official board toe the
" inertia " forced upon it by the House, as it is

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

unfair to make political capital Ant of an obstruc- defect in oar law‘ se tive leeks the execu power to stop
tivenem which exists only in the imagination of a pracitiwan
ono ha bass
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single writer, or to shelter personal predilections eeP62l62:th the7osee sepoi7. 7,reembeteee, the reeeamth
under • professed anxiety for the interests el the of the patios.. eiil opinat lito tidied Mates swims
public. I to the Slat estrous oftly on oar aide and s robust Oa
loritimaoy of Sizes claims put forward by iho
- ',h• position

United Stales. The United Stake then aveasted the
that all they were required to do wee to put their laws la
force to stop privateers issuing from their vide, or to punish
them vibes they returned ti pot, bat that they were ice
responsible for the acts of those who soaped is spite of
vigilant precautions, and committed wrongs upon a her•
genet beyond the jurisdiction of the United Stites. Is
iheosee of the Alabama there wee certainly much noel'•
puce, neither the ministry nor the officials at Liverpool
being at all impressed at the time with the gravity of the
cosjaciotwo. Bat it is a different gasstino whether this
usgligence was so gross as to make the cantata reepossibie
for what are sometimes termed the ocesagnential &mem
resulting from the comps of the 'raiser.

The American national debt representing exactly the
eat of the war, is, we ere told by the Tina, jest
800,000,0001. In the estimates for the awning year the
ezpendituee (70,000,0001.) is reckoned with a liberality
verging upon extravagance, but about the revenue the
Times thinks there is more obscurity. Tb. 00,000,00 W.
expected from " internal " must be of doubtful cer-
tainty, and the item is all the more enigmatical from it.
very csompreheinivences. Its two chief ingredients most
be Wane tax and excise, but in what peci?oetions we are
left to cioniecture. As yet the Amnion. have never
raised as much as 30,000,0001. from "internal revenue ;"
they only estimated their receipt. at 25,000,0301.
In the tact year for which accounts are made up.
Borrowing has awed, and paying is to begin. The machi-
nery of tar:Mims is in good order and is to be worked at
fall
power, so as to proclaim not only the whole revenue re-
quint* for the public service, but 10,000,0001. a year for a
sinking fund besides. This will make very heavy work,
heavier thee we ever undertook cm:selves. If the Amad-
eus undertake and accomplish it, they will give greater
evident. of national capacity than they gave even by their
gigantic war.

The confusion which seemingly prevails fn American
affairs does not affect the oertainty, says the Daily News,
that a new and thorough political settlement will take
place which will make the reometitution of the repub-
lic as great an meat in history as its first for.
Intim The hope of the republic lies in getting
beyond the notion that the oostroversy and di&
Gutty of the time is neither more nor less than the oh
question of state r:ghts, and going to the Inbar
mental republican principle of equal rights before the
law, for all who are exempt from attain nallot.n
and
essential disqualiflcatioss. The qualification may b• in the
form of education, or of property, and of course, of years,
amity, and exemption from convicted arises ; bat it cannot
hoof ism colour, or social position. There is no room for
doubt that, whenever this question is fairly put to the
country at large, the people will show themselves 'slimily
republican, ea hitherto on great and. solemn ommioes. Aad
if it should turn out, as it generally believed, that the lately
insurgent states—or the political linden in each—will re-
fuse the condition, they most take a lower rank, and go
through the territorial probation again.

Among other topics today ars the doinp of the sanitary
oommiaeioo for India, @pukes of with gratitude by the Daily
News; the temperament of the Irish race--spropos of the
Fenians—which the Tinge' ends to be gregarious, leading
them to " be always doing something or other which has so
reason or jostifiestioe, except that the lit is oa them, and
everybody most do what everybody else is doing," sad
alto socouragiog disloyalty, for which the more (request
appeaser* among them of royalty is the proper matador—
the practical results of the nine years' work of the Social
Science Association, provocative of mirth to the Timm;.tho
improved dimositiou of the Eaglials government towards
Brasil, leading the Haruki to expect the restoration of the
relations of the two pronmmots, M era so Mr. More-
tti* is able to pia arose one special mission to the
Emperor, now at the seat of war ; the parks of
burial club serianne, which the Post ordsaina,
and illustrates by a shocking oar jest investlptord at the
Plymouth GaildkraU ; sod tbo painful delay in the fall of the
drop at the execution of Curtis at ileidstre, oared, it is
said, by the length of the extempore peeps of the presby-
terian clergy's's who Warred him Is the scaffold, aid
which leads the Telegraph to iritt that whether espied
punishment itself is right or wrong, the present mode of its
, iodation IN bungling an I bachelor.

The doubt en to the limits of reference to be
observed by the eommission which was proposed by Earl
Russell in hi last published despatch to Mr. Adams, is est
at rest this monies by • communique which appears is
the Times. It will be seen by this that the interpreta-
tion of the proposal by the Daily News was the correct
one. "In order" says the paragraph to which we
refer, "to guard ag t any n frunderstaadieg. we
are reguested to re-date that the proposal of
Bail Rummell to the Aminiew government was eonveyed
is the following words:—' Her Majesty's government are
ready to consent to the appointment of a commission, to
which shall be referred all claims arising during the late
civil wee which the two powers shall agree to refer to the
commissioner..' Them concluding words limit the subject
of reference, since It would be twoodateut with the posi-
tion taken up by bar Majesty's overnment, and with the
arguments which indigoes& it to decline arbitration, to per-
mit the claims for looses by the Alabama and other ?Mehl
of the same Warsaw to be brought before • commission
for decision. It must be understood, therefore, that if any
such commission were agreed on those oases would be ex-
cluded from its juridic:ties."
The Pod, Herold, Telegraph, and Star Mara to the
despatches, The Pod thinks the chief importance they
pose's is derived from the supposed guide which
they furnish of the conduct of webs! governments for
Ake future. Whilst the civil war still lasted, her Ma-
jesty's government exercised a gonad discretion in not seek.
leg to make the law more stringent, because, whether that
law was afßeisat or not, any change which would have
bad the effect of beemitisig one of the belligerents
would have bees • violation of that strict neutra-
lity which this country was desirous of observing. But,
now that the war ha' happily elided, may it not with
justice be asked whether we ought to peewee usehaoged
an act of parliament through which, as O'Cossisll said, you
012 drives coseetrand-siz, or, more correctly speaking, sad
• whole fleet of ships? This is an age in which we hear of
conferences for all imaginable purposes, from the general
pacification of Europe down to the purification of Moslem
pilgrims. Why should there not be a epidermic" to agree
epos some common code to be observed by central states,
framed with the view of preventing a repetition of such
sets as those of which Spain and Portugal complained
to the Usited State is 1818, sad ef which the United
BMWs sow complain to its t
The Nereid compliments Earl Russell upon the ability
displayed in his share of the correspondence, but says that
the suggestion of • commissica was • mistake; if sash
• commission be appointed there will be • COCUOUPi
straggle as to whether each particular claim wines withis
ithe specific wediden.
A remarkable feature of the discussion, the Telegraph
remarks, is that the citation of precedents is nil on ens
aide. Whether the authorities which Lord Russell quotes
Ibe esecludve or not, it is at least certain that the
Alellikan minister does trot erodes* • eines example in
support of has contention. If England now yielded to his
reclamation, she would make a concession positively nip
paralleled in the history of the world. Os the main
Lamas at Make Erl Ruses"'s anal answer is un-
hesitating. A coneesden of what the American go-
vernment now asks would give r:es to demigods ab-
solutely interminable ; for who shall take se exact
esseeme of the televise, direct axed Indirect, which the
eemmerce of New York has suffered from the mere ap-
prehension of attack; by the dreaded Alabama and her
oomiranions t A mom intolerable position can hardly be
conceived thee that of peaceful Mates compelled to bow
the harden of injuries Inflicted beyeed their jurisdiction by
I belligerents ever whom they have no costroL
The Star believes that if the law already in existence
had bees applied, those who obtaissed the false otaaraner
for the dbenaedoah (for example) could have been dis-
covered sad punished. If weemery halt the navy of
England ought to have been employed to seise and being
back to port • vessel thus ewdearearing to compromise our
seeleality, aid Waging IMO ecineasspt the authority of
thee:wen. The Seer could have wished that has a state
paper by the Foreign Secretary of England, which will find
les way into the archlves of every country of the world, •
higher parities bad been takes with regard to the duty of
seetirsle to exert all thole pew is preweldsg the twee
from their peril eff newel filibusters, and if fres say

LATEI3T INTELLIGENV&

Opines nuazaus.)
PRIII3SLL
VLgiT OF THE CROWN PRINCE AND
PRINCESS TO ENGLAND.
BERLIN, Oar. 14.
The Crown Prince and Princess will proceed
to England on a visit to the royal family for three
weeks. Their royal highnesses will take their
departure on the 20th inst., immediately after the
festivals in Westphalia.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, Oor. It
According to the Preindenbtaft of to-day several
German governments will shortly recognise the
kingdom of Italy, and the negotiations between
Prussia and Italy for the conclusion of a treaty of
commerce between the latter and the Zollverein
will then be officially carried on.
The Outerreischithe Zeitung gays :—" Herr von
Beoke is expected here to-day. It is said that be
has already placed 30 millions of florins of the new
loan, which are to be considered as an advance by
the French and English capitalists who are nego-
tiating this loan."
The Wanderer lays :—"We have received
is
telegram from Paris from a reliable source, stating
that the journey of Count Bismarck to Biarritz has
had no political results whatever."

BELGIUM.
ADVANCE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.
BRUSSELS, Oar. 14.
The National Bank has raised its rate of discount
from 4 to 5 per oent.

FIRE AT THE ARSENAL OF NAPLES.
NAPLES, Oer. 13.
A fire broke oat In the Royal Arsenal, but was
subdued without much darnouce being done.

QUARANTINE AT LEGHORN.
LEGHORN, Oar. 14.
A quarantine of three days has been ordered for
all vowels arriving from Naples.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN
MAILS.
YALTA, Oor. 12.
The Mongolia left here for Marseilles at 5 p.m.
yesterday.
The Poonah left for Southampton at 10 am. to-
day. She may be ezpeeted in England on the 21st
instant.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN.

(VA Crookhaven.)
brrw TORS, Ocr. 4, 1 Y.Y.
it is officially announced that the public debt
on the 30th September amounted to 2,745,000,000
dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury has an-
nonneed that he is prepared to issue 50,000,000
dollars of Six per Cent. 6-20 Bonds at 103, in
exchange for compound interest notes, one and two
year Treasury notes, and certificates of indebtedness
maturing before January 1.
Since the August statement the public debt has
been reduced nearly 12 million dollars, the interest
half a million, and the legal tender notes afloat
six millions. The coin in the Treasney has decreased
12 millions, sand the currency has increased 13
millions.
The Alabama convention has adjourned after
adopting the new constitution, passing an ordi-
nance excluding negro testimony in all civil
cases, until the next legislature makes
the organic law of Alabama and memorialising the
government for a general amnesty and the with-
drawal of the troops from the state. The °pavan-
tion refuse to submit the state constitution for
amendment to the people for ratification.
The Governor of Mississippi, according to the
proposal of Colonel Thomas, bas decided that cases
of freedmen shall be adjudicated by the eivireourta
according to the State laws, except in so far as they
would make a distinction on aooount of colour.
Negroes will be protected in person and property,
and have the right to sue and be sued and to give
evidence.
The North Carolina reconstruction Convention
assembled on the 2nd inst.
The constitutional amendment extending the
suffrage to negroes baa been defeated in Connec-
ticut by a large majority.
Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, in his
message to the legislature, recommends
the amendment of the franchise law,
but deprecates any sweeping legislative changes.
He urges the disfranchisement of rebels for ten
years, and that neither mercy nor forbearance
should be shown to the leaders. He thinks that
whites and negroes cannot live together as political
or social equals. He favours the setting apart a
portion of the national territory for the residence of
freedmen. In conclusion, he supports President
Johnson's policy.
Mr. Davis has been removed from the campmates
to other quarters in Fort Monroe.
Rumours are current that the Erin and City of
Boston carried to Europe 1,000,000 dollars in Fe-
nian Bonds, and also a printed Fenian proclama-
tion.
An official correspondence between Secretary
Seward and Mr. Dayton has been published. Mr.
Seward wrote to Mr. Dayton in February, 1864,
that he would not recognise the Archduke Maxi-
milian in any manner as the Emperor of Meidoo.
The steamers Allemania, Edinburgh, Belgian,
and Persia have arrived out.
COMREECIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Ocr. 4, 1 P.n.
Money easy. Gold, 145 g. Exchange on London,
159 ; on Paris, 3.63. Stocks advancing. New
York Centrals, 97 ; Illinois, 1321 ; Erie, 891 ;
6-20 Bonds, 103 k, ex-November Coupon. Cotton
advancing ; middling upland, 48c. Flour and
wheat advancing. Corn firmer. Provisions steady.
Coffee quiet. Sugar good inquiry. Molasses
steady. Petroleum steady; crude, 39 to 39k ;
refined, 63 to 65.

The Saturday Review remarks that the letters which
have pared in the hat few mouths between Lord Rumen
and Yr. Adams, and widish have just hem published, are
very creditable I. their writer.. The terminate are good,
the leeway is good, sad the sentiments are very good.
We in Eaulesd may be especially glad that the reeduct of
the ems on behalf of the United States baa fallen into
the hands of Mr. Aflame, who arsine with modern-
lion and courtesy, who knows how to put his strong points
without anything like blastulae sad arropnos, and who
has the mind of a lawyer, and, while ke make@ the best of
all oa which be can really rely, doss not run a weak argw
meat to death. With regard to the bone of oontentioo, the
Saturday &Inky madders the Eminences ease quoted by
Earl Russell as an exact parallel, and is sure that the
American people, with their substantial love of junkie and
respect for law, will bs largely influenced, is spike
of all their preprusesions, by the statewide,
arguments, sad precedents put forward by the
British government. But peer intim' mast be
taken for the future. Severe penalties should be
indicted on men who fit out &venal in the way in wbioh the
Shenandoah was fitted oat. Teat • neutral should set
against the ship, sod seise • vessel bearing the flag of the'
belligerent, is • soggestios easily made, but full of the
gravest diMenities, as it must almost inevitably involve the
neutral is the war, and would oast upon the neutral the
duty of perforalleg • task which the other belligerent ought
prtperly to disabuse. The better mune for the neutral
to take would prohably be tr remonstrate with the bellige.
rent goveromeot that had authorised and profited by the
, traneectioo, sad, if it were strong enough, It would roman •
state is • way which would make its remonstrances
effectual.
The Spa:tater, while plaint doing that we have done
nothing and omitted nothieg which cannot be far more than
justified by Araeriese precedents, think" the present con-
dition of mind of the Uoitel Staten a great opportunity for
improving the future precedents on this subject. Why
should not English statesmen, while expressly repudiating
all obligation to give compensation for the Alabama
on the principles of existing international law, avow
their wish to establish a new Eoglieh precedent for
the future, if they can obten the concurrence of
the United States, and even give their consent to
some indeemifiettlon as the price of • treaty by which the
two governments should engage, with the consent of the
legislatures of loth countries, to accept such responsibility
in future wherever reasonable *eidetic* of any depart-
meotal or ministerial negligence could be produced? It is
quite true that the United States have hitheno refused to
apologise for much greeter sins than those of which we
have been guilty. Bat that is just the reasoa why it is
wise to catch them Is the opposite mood, and enure, by a
reeeosable concession, desk better coeschtot for the future.

THE QUEST% VOW TO TR' DIMNESS Dowagss or
Artious.—On semaat at the unfavourable weather her
Majesty, since bee arrival at Dunksld Hansa cc Monday
*Yentas, has not had mush opportunity of visiting maay of
the posses of that ietereatieg and picturesque nsishboar-
hood. On Tuesday afterpoon. however, the game, with
Prioress Helens, the Dunham-Dowager., Athol. and party,
visited her Gram's model farm at Eh. Oolmea.
about four miles from Duakeld. Tim royal
party afterwards hammed her Grace's at
Dusk*ld, tibia contain eon of th• Inletbrio herds
of Ayrshire" in the country. On Wounds), alternooo, lie
weather hay's' impend. her Kageety sad Trireme Bekaa,
the Mame and Mils IVOregor, la two carriages, dress
round the Loch of the Lowss, and panned thtough Dankeld
it half-past 4 a'aksh. amidst a amaiderable sonoimme of
people, who loudly sheered the royal party. Her Majlaty
appeared in excellsit spirits. sad hosed grenatally to
he people. The royal party drove to the Falb
of the Braa at the Iturabliavbcidge, sad then to
the Harrah's., where tea was served. The reyal
party Marred to Dankeld-hosle at hall-patit 6.
On Timothy manias, *NM. A. Winne and gas,
at Dankeld. menved her Majesty's oommasids to submit a
selection of wood-week from the Athol. plasheilioss fey
hispastioa. The variety comprised itritise-tahhe este,
pbotosrantele albums, weak-bases. tea-eddies, beaks ta
wood bindiag, kn. The QlllOl/0 WWI math plasesd with tie
articles, and made chaise of a manitimablo unnear. A
similar seleatioe was aseAe lam the sleek at the Mess.
Asaenes. Mb
On Thursday Um Queen en&
party wars to drive ant by As Highlaad turnpike to Maas
and Leyland'. fa issimmot tbri axmomest sow basis,
=2„:.0 memory al the WO Dubs dAlbnia.—

Perla:soul
Landis

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