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-nrinrrr and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE semis YEAR-SPECIAL NOTICE.THE ATLANTIC CABLE. upon their absence, and the inefficiency of their WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)
jj of PACKET SHIP.—For -For SYDIFET Direct (to sail punt, OLERICAL MEDICAL, and GENERAL I TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.. '.
--.-- substitutes, the failure and diaappointanent of last
Nagy as the nth April), the beautiful Clyde-built dipper BEN NJ LIFE ASSURANCE SOCILTY. --.....--
There is the same difference between the appear- year's expedition mainly resta. This year she will
won, • 1 10 maw register 985 tons, JOHN WAIT, coin- latablkhed 1824. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) WRDERIMAT, AY= 25, 8 AIL
wider ; lying in the Rost India Decks. This Sae vessel, built The Eighth Bonus will be declared In January, 1887, and all I slice of the Atlantic cable of this year and last as have on board the giant rope we saw slowly dp-
awee glad ettivq iti 1862, is noted for bar teat in with-profit policies In tome on the 30th June, HMS, will partici- THE GERMAN QUESTION. .between a white man and a black. But this differ- preaching completion, which is made on an im- i 1. ) Extreme. (Rea,
the Australian and is a preferable o ty for fin* pate. Ito that who complete Inch aseuranoes before June IB.T. W. ital,.---...-..., W. E. Ly to
rosile. Having a peep, she has excellent scoommodetion 80M next share la that division, although one premium only viENNA, Aram 24, Emma. . Amos is purely external, and in no way applies proved principle, and has been triumphantly tested is IY.! D. 19.
Er thief cabin Passenger For terms a freight or purge wal have been paid. either to the conducting wire or the many mating' to bear far more than the strain ever needed during 1-4--1-. --
Noy to DEVITT and MOOSE No. 9, Billiterstreet Table* of rates, and forms of proposal, ean be obtained of any The aspect of affairs is decidedly warlike. The sari 4 A 1 1 Z. fob - 1
of gutta percha and compound with which it le the Picking up process last year. Further, the Aberdeen sue ESL 2 2 8.8. R ob - 3
of the Society's agesta, or of Austrian army in Italy has been placed on a war covered. These
°NORGE CUTCLLTFE Actuary and Secretary. 30.33 47 E.N.E. 5 4 it.s.. b - 3
and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE is, et hew mac., sly,
mews, footing. General Benedek is expected in Vienna., and in shape, make, precisely
"ley the
the re:bailie olafgtto-yer. ; vtectiillgonsapanpagitusaddhimtionsbeenmadeinlbr Mr. W' Othlighe t; Leithardroman ae to er HR. 6 4 NAL b - 4
IrfrPrA7KET 15111. P.-For SYDNEY Direct (to sal Punt- - 3
typily on the 10th May, last shipping day Bth May), the wen- GORSE SHOW.-AGRICULTURAL-lIALL, A cabinet council was held yesterday, under the is identical with the one concern which so many Smith, that a flaw will be detected with certainty Yalentia..... 29.87'14' 1 L.N.E. I 6 E. be - 1
we Aberdeen clipper RIFLER A N Al, register 724 tom, presidency of the Emperor. Most of the Vienna' sanguine hopeswere raised twelve months ago. The either before, or the instant it has been paid
T. NORIE, Command ; lytag la the East India Docks. This .s. „L4l/3_00._,,-PILIZE Urrilare now ready. 1114TRIA8 CLOSE 1Map001.... 10.17- 311 E. 5.1. 3 a E.S.E. b - I .
outer is composed of wires covered with out. Add to this, .that the picking-up not ... axle z.k.K. s s E.N.E. b- 4 1
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or ear
go.hin the. Slisrvd% trade. Pape -'o‘66 :de,- me", 6,4o"erierii., tcolliepwn3YETiume4464rret6r7, and Manager. 1 papers confirm the announcement of the arrival in
roe abe has ex accommodation for chkd cabin lslbartax, louden. 1 this city of the Italian diplomatists Count Arise mmatirit
galvanised iron,
before, but as. these are now machinery has been vastly increased in efficiency, Permance....l29.96' all 4 s B.E. co - a
gen-For terms of freight or perigee apply to nsviglaeauil and Signor Visconti-Venosta. Count Arise is the necessity for a tarry and it will be readily seen that the ex- Breetisousu.
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ass :
1-.7 of PROGRAMME-A NEW COMIC CANTATA, written stated to have requested explanations concerning time put on board the Great Eastern at the rate of is, of course, hoped that the additional precautions Craeata • -.:lll:teirc Sir, 74 : la '74: -_ -_ :
Town and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE expressly far Ws 44)4141d0ne54 All Ow' "426616 comic 464 L the Austrian armaments in Venetia. According more than a hundred miles a week looks like an fa:ken will render flaws and faults all but impos- eoerYteemioutb..laeer'44 E. 3 8 8 E c, - 3
JLI of PACKETBHIP.-For SYDNEY Direct (to be despatched Icrio-nrmie tedeat-Seleetfo.4 Duets. Soles, Cherwell, Re-con-
room, and has seen neither pitch nor tar.
es the 25th May, last shipping day std May), the new ductor. Mr. R. COOT!. -Open till one o'clock for suppers. The to another report he has asked an addience Of ertliaarY shiP's rope which has just left the store- Bible ; but it is a • assurance to know that London ... .130.14 51 E. 3 8 E.B.E. bI - -
alp DILAWUR. •1 14 years, register 1,306 tom, J. H. ItAlciarrl, &aced 4141114. wine* eiPM, Re. 'the Emperor as the bearer of proposals from his
the manufacture of the Atlantic cable they are unimportant. pen this simple fact Y ' 'armmih •16666 48 ZA/' Z'' 4 6 Li"- 6,' - 1
Scarborough ~130.2 i IS E. 11 2 h. b" - 3
Commander . lying in the East India Docks. lids aPiennid ship • - • To trace ocean telegraphy must be content to rest. No human Shields 13936 48 kit. 2I 2 ' B.E. be' - 2
made the outward to Bombay is seders, sad completed QTODARE'S 408th representation.-THEATRE government. This request, it is added, met with . .
~ in its early stages, it is necessary to visit the gutter
Ear list voyage In ea than eight months. She hm good accom- 1....7 of MYSTERY, Fesrotian Hall -STODARLS celebrated effort can positively ensure against casualties, and Holder I - .-1 s_
- I - I - -
soodation for a few chief cabin passengers, and Is the finest •accom 'ed b the declaration t
era mAsvim of MAGIC sal vzwrauxieuism. es performed by a refusal, Pam y "an' percha works of the Telegraph Construction and the obvious consideration is, how to make casual-
ere
you ties hermlem. Captain Anderson maintained, after racwinAv. osProsiallexincas FRIDAY.
pow loading for Sydney.-For terms of freight or passage apply him by command at Windsor Castle. before KM. the QUOOII, Austria adhered to the Treaty of Zurich. The Maintenance Company in the City-road.H
lb DXVIIT and 11003. E, 9, Billiterstreet Nov. 21, 1866, and Woe before if P.N. the Prince oft ales,
use the copper wire, fine ea packthread, es received the expedition of last year, that picking up an chiefttate toessierkvitropimpodne,,,l °°Atfts* 1" to and B.W" fresh
Jens., 1866,aad Karehlo,l9BB. Theneweessation, the MARVEL Vienna journals also state that some Italian volun-
from B' ham. When every yard of this has to screw
Atlantic. cable ought to be as easy as
ofpaylog one ..71.1.7.,n.2-...._..
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TIEVITP and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE 4 411/°",-.4 ettelanTrel_A4ll,r,Zliaroe'stadaceleb,:rin ast!tr, teen had crossed the Austrian frontier at 'lnvite, stru
.11-/ of Pecturr SHIP -For ADELAIDE Direct (to sso pane- is& etas may be secured In advance at the illos.oilke, P47p- but were repulsed by the Austrian troops. Bo* laeta tested e •cally, it is placed on bobbins, and eiit, and to have made the opinion one expe- At' tiZrzzw.z„-.7 WIE°II3I B L 141'11'n:4° !Ink.
on on 60 May, last chi day let May) NM amr Asa cyan, on, from 10 till 1, ; and at Mitchell's Old Bond- , . flieg through the gha
panc.,,ses mixture known ea, dition the fact of the next, speaks volumes for the
ituaeettiod.
dm A.Jo ale ~ini&-. Is.,ts.f &we, es-,..sisami sasssaboos-- sides suffered loss, estimated at 40 killed and c . , spindle genius of the mechanists, and for their chances or to' It add 11144 W . • ..
the Lesion Deals Thin vide limos rton a oompound,
I vnnrulacl. A rumour is current that Austria will -1,14. ;. f ~Al.‘, ... ..41,,,,. vertical
1,,1,1, passes ILP.a.-„,.,1,;,..i.,to & w., strong, with to Aron&
„.„, .t.),,,, success. rain is some places. . . .

The aspect of affairs is decidedly warlike. The
Austrian army in Italy has been placed on a war
footing. General Benedek is expected in Vienna..
A cabinet council was held yesterday, under the
presidency of the Emperor. Most of the Vienna'
papers confirm the announcement of the arrival in
this city of the Italian diplomatiats Count Arese
and Signor Viaconti-Venosta. Count' Arese is
stated to have requested explanations concerning
the Austrian armaments in Venetia. According
to another report he has asked an andience of
the Emperor as the bearer of proposals from his
government. This request, it is added, met with
a refusal, accompanied by the declaration that
Austria adhered to the Treaty of Zurich. The
Vienna journals also state that some Italian volun-
teers had crossed the Austrian frontier at Rovigo,
but were repulsed by the Austrian troops. Rolls
sides suffered loss, estimated at 40 killed and
I wounded. A rumour is current that Austria will
in future be diplomatically represented in Italy by
France, instead of Prussia, as formerly.
The Emperor of Austria has sent his congratula-
tions to the Czar on the occasion of his Majesty's
late happy escape from the hand of the assassin.
BERLIN, APRIL 24.

STODARE'S 409th representation.—THEATßE
of MYSTERY, &maim Hall —STODARLS celebrated
MAZYIIS MAGIC aid- VENTRILOQUIShi, as performed by
Nov.y command aS Windsor Castle, before KM the Queen,
Nov 21, 1806, and Woe before HR.H. the Prince of Wales,
Janet 1806,aad Karehl%l7ll. Tbeneweensation, the MARVEL
d HEOCA, the BPHIN and Modem's celebrated Indian
/Whet Feat EVERY ZYP- NO, at 8 ; Wednesdays and SefurtlaYs
at & Midi may be moored in advance at the Boaralloe, HOP-
Mesehall, deny from 10 till ; and at Mitabelfs, Oid Bond-
stead,. At IL. S. MO* IM.-••••Alsiod adestidous."—
Vide ''Tbnes.

in its early stages, it is necessary to visit the gutta-
percha works of the Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Company in the City-road. Here you
see the copper wire, fine as packthread, as received
from B. ham. When every yard of this has
r.been tested e tally, it is placed on bobbins, and
nasning through the glutinous mixture known as
Chatterton's compound, passes up a vertical spindle
' which is fed by six other bobbins on which are the
same wire. These seven wires—six round the
central one—make nearly a perfect circle, and are
the medium of electrical communication. Every-
thing else about the cable is either for insulation or
for protecting the precious core, the cliameter of which
is about that of a small pea. It is perhaps unne-

ri to stung, gene-
li.
&rallyS.& to ne
&S.W.. tresh WESTEMI. &F. to &W. and beet,
to strong, squally, stn,ng simaly. an-
IlliWan&
*ter r mottro Iti INoit;i' '
o.with to strong.
rain In some
I Easterly end southerly, Earrigil.
fresh to strong, Ana
generally.
North.—

TIEVITT and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE
JLI 41 PACK=! SHIP —For ADELAIDE Meet (to salt muse-
WRY on Stb Mg, WE shl
Al,iv let Mar tin sow Aber.
paer:
0 11 iItILUAM
the Lowliest Death Mb
Eslessship. tied or the Adelaide trade, has a fall
eeop, with tap-room, and every other comfort for the accotonso-
John of cable vamangera —For terms of freight or passage,
way to DEV and MOORE, 9, Bllliteretheet.

As next above.

RESPECTABLE SICK FEMALES, in Need
of good Medical ur Sargieal Attendance and careful
Nursing. can be RECEIVED at the NORTH LONDON DEA-
CONESS INSTITUTION, 50 and 51, Burton-crescent, W.C., at a
payment of 7s. pm week. Hopeless cams, if not chronic, are
admiesible Donations M aid of the above thankfully received.
Christian women are also Invited to give personal ambiance.
T. PELHAM DALE, Chaplain.

Western—lreland, Wales, and adja-
cencies. Southern—English Channel and Bay of Biscay.
Eastern—Eastward Eastland and North Sea.

PHILLIPS and COMPANY'S TEAS are
BEST and CHEAPEST.
srso/ro to TINE BLACK TEA, Is. ed., Ps, b. Ed, 3a, Ss. 4d.
Most delicious Black Teo now only 3. fel. per pound Pure,
rich, rare, choice coffee, Is ed., la. 6d, la. Bd.
PHILLIPS and Co., Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street,
City, London, KC.
A price ewrent free. Sugars at market prices.
PHILLIPS and Co. send all goods carriage free within eight
miles of No. 8, King William-street: 40a worth carriage free to
any railway station or market town in England—Phillips and
Co. hare no agents nor any connexion with any house In Wor
nester or Swanned

Count von Bismarck, in his reply to the address
in favour of peace, presented by the Chamber of
Commerce, says :—" The King will, if possible,
avoid war, but the government cannot be guided
by considerations of national economy alone. If
war be necessary, the King trusts in the tried
readiness of the Chamber of Commerce to make
sacrifices."

country to add that the blended wires act as
one, and that while messages could be conveyed
through any of their number, even if the rest were
injured, it is as a single wire that the cable must be
considered for all practical purposes.
The preparation and application of the gutta-
percha coating is extremely interesting. In the
vast cellars of the City-road establishment massive
blocks of gutta percha are stacked away in the
primitive state in which they left the natives selling
them. Idols, dragons, insects, monsters, and
animals, are all to be seen rudely fashioned in the
plastic material as it left the tree, and now
hardened into what resembles wood.i You
walk through groves and avenues of gutta-
percha, smell it on all sides, feel it in the dim light
whichever way you stretch out your hand, and hear
without wonder of the immense quantity required
for the execution of such a contract as the Atlantic
cable. The different qualities of this useful material
are easily marked, and the prevalence or absence
of foreign matter easily aeon when bits are broken
off. Inside it looks like hard touchwood ; outside it
resembles peat, or solid lumps of bark. From the
basement, where this mass of raw material is housed,
you pass to the next floor, in the rooms of which it
;is being carefully made available. First, the vast
blocks are broken up by a disc armed with teeth ;
, then the mass is boiled in huge cauldrons until in
colour and appearance it resembles so many masses
of liquified granite ; then, by ticker and the cold
water test, foreign substances are eliminated, until,
after more boiling, it is placed under hydraulic
pressure, treated as a fluid, and comes out cleared
and purified of all appreciable impurity. Then
comes the process of mastication, which consists of
a series of teeth on a double roller being employed
I in working upon the gutta percha until it is of the
consistency of putty and the colour of chocolate.
The same process is repeated with a single roller
Imasticator, and thus by repeated purification and
Imanipulation a perfectly plastic mass is arrived
at, which is proved to possess more highly than
any other the pecaliar properties needed in sub-
' marine telegraphy. The electric wire is first passed
through Chatterton's compound, which is both in-
imitative and adhesive, and attaches the gutta
j percha to the copper, and finally into the gutta
percha itself, and then into cold water. This is
the first layer for the cable, and as soon as it is
completed careful tests are again applied. The
process of dipping in the compound in the gutta
percha and in cold water and of testing, is re-
peated several times, until the cable is the sub-
. stance of a slight walking cane, and externally like
so much gutta-percha piping. It is then wound
I round drums in lengths of 2,200 yards, which
drums are deposited bodily in tanks of water.
I Tests are constantly being put, but the elec-
tricians appointed to certify before the cable
leaves these works, have it immersed in water at a
uniform temperature of 75 deg. Fahrenheit. This
is the contract test, and as the hotter the surround-
I ings of the cable the more trying to its insulating
power, it will be readily seen that the trial is sufli-
ciently severe. It is well known that the bottom
of the ocean is, in an electric sense, favourable both
to copper and gutta percha, the one becoming a
better conductor and the other a better insulator
the Golder the water in which it is placed. Gutta
percha, too, increases in insulating power by pres-
sure, and it follows that the colder and deeper the
water, the more electrically perfect the cable is
hoped to become. Having been placed on bigger
drums it is now transferred in lengths of from
four to five hundred yards, to Morden Wharf,
Greenwich, where the remainder of its ma-
nufacture is carried on. Here it is again
tested at 75 degrees, and its gutta percha
piping appearance soon gives place to one more
consonant with the word cable. First it receives a
coating of jute yarn, put on by means of bobbins
and a hollow spindle. This done, it is plunged in
cold water for from ten to sixteen hours, after
which testa are again rigidly applied. There are
thirty-two tanks employed in this particular im-
mersion, each tank holding more than two miles of
cable. We saw some of the vast coil after it had
been under water several hours, and could discern
no difference either to sight or touch in its condi-
tion and that of the cable just leaving the jute-
giving machinery. From these tanks it is passed
through troughs downstairs, and comes up to re-
ceive its final protection of ten homogeneous gal-
vanized wires, each of which has a stout coating of
Manilla. The cable is now complete. It next
passes into still more gigantic tanks, where it
is again soaked in cold water, and where testa
are still constantly applied. From these tanks
it is paid out through a trough into the hulk
stationed a few yards from the wharf, and by this
is carried to the Great Eastern at Sheerness. The
Amethyst, an old government frigate, was doing
duty as hulk during our visit ; and has been built
up and altered for her present purpose until she
looks far more like an ugly Noah's ark than a ship
of war. One of the unwritten laws of river-life
seems to be that strangers may board and visit
ships at anchor, without being given into custody
for trespass. The deck is open, and the means of
going below ample, so that under ordinary circum-
stances any idle person might have access to the
cable without much difficulty while it is on the
transport vessel. To guard against such in-
trusion, a substantial hut has been built
upon, and covers a great
.portion of the
Amethyst's deck, and the sloping roof of this,
and its outhouse shape, look !strangely un-shiplike
when it is viewed from the land. Fast as the cable
can be paid in and stowed away does it leave the
works, and directly the Amethyst leaves, her place
will be supplied by the Iris, the vessel acting alter-
nately as transport tender between the cable works
and the Great Eastern.
Not less interesting than what we have already
seen is another manufacture connected with the
expedition. We have traced every stage of the
cable-making from the little Birmingham wire to
the stout coil as paid into the great ship. The
outside galvanised wires, covered with Manilla,
are however made in another branch of
the Construction Company's Works. Here,
too, a massive grappling rope of wire and
hemp is being made. The Great Eastern had no
grappling ropes on her last eventful voyage, and

"We learn from Rome," says the Opinion
Nationale, " that the Holy Father has written to Cardinal
Andrea, expressing the pain that the conduct of Use latter
has caused him, and which he describes as unworthy of a
cardinal of the holy church. The Pope invites M. Andrea
to return to Rome, and not again compromise his dignity
by piiblications which dishonour him. If his eminence

does Jaqt trans the advice so given, the Holy Father will
take radial measures, and will use the supreme authority

which be possesses as hew] of the church."
Silt E. C. ICERRusorr, M.P.—Sir E. C. Eerrison,

AUGSBURG, APRIL 24.

the conservative member for Eye, has been rather variously

Tho conference of the Ministers for Foreign
Affairs of the minor States has resulted in a com-
plete understanding not to decline the proposal of
Prussia, but to make it the starting point for the
reform of the Federal Diot.

indisposed during the lest! ewdays. The hon.baronet he

maned to his resident*, Biome-hall, Suffolk, by gout.

ROYAL INSTITUTION.—YeKtorday afternoon the
Rev. Charles Kingsley delivered the first of two lectures
on " Superstition and Science," before a very large and
intelligent audience. Superstition he considered to be
altogether a physical characteristic, and in his opinion it
might be defined as "fear of the unknown," the bodily
dread of unknown evil. The primitive savage, he added,
on looking forth into the world, divides all the objects ha
sees into two great classes—those which he can eat, and
those which can eat him. He afterwards discovers, how-
ever, by hard experience, that other things can injure
him, such as poisonous plants or the fall of rocks, which
injuries he may naturally refer to the malice of sums invi-
sible beng. The savage is but a child, and, as with child-
dren, hisdreams are as real to him as his every-day life.
On passing the mouth of a dark yawning cavern be may
fancy the possibility of some great monster rushing out
to eat him, and a few days latter, after enjoying an un-
usually rich feast on " heaven knows what," he goes to
sleep, and the idea conjured up by his waking thoughts be-
comes a stern reality. The lecturer then drew a fanciful
and strongly coloured picture as an example of the way in
which many savage superstitions may have had their
growth, and he traced their probable Method of develop-
ment into the blind and cruel rites of different heathen
tribes. He instanced, in particulir, the roasting of a girl
40 years ago by an extinct tribe of Indians. The same
fear of the unknown he believed to originate man's dis-
trust in hie helpmate woman, ending in the faith in witch-
craft which is found more or less all over the world, this
faith being the last and ugliest of the children of super-
stition. In enunciating this physical theory of supersti-
tion he did not teach materialism. On the contrary, he
separated ell things material, and this among them from
the realities of the spiritual world. The highly interest-
ing lecture was listened to with marked attention.
NEW ACT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE. —Yesterday
the new act on the cattle plague was issued, having re-
ceived the royal assent on Monday. It is to amend the
11th and 12th Viet., cap. 107, to prevent the spreading of
contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and
other animals. The two acts are to be construed se one
statute. The new law is not to extend to Ireland. The
orders made under the recited act are to he deemed valid,
and the Privy Council may make any other orders for the
purpose of preventing the spread of these diseases within
Great Britain, and may direct the slaughtering of any
animals affected. The Privy Council may require any
local authority, by themselves or their officers, and may
make any orders to prevent the spreading of the disorders.
One-half of the penalties (which arc to be recovered in a
summary manner) to go to the parson who sues or proceeds
for the same. There is a provision in the act that where
any person having any cattle in him possession or keeping
within the district of any local authority wherein the
cattle plague exists, refixes at the entrance to any building
or enclosed place in or on which such cattle are kept a
notice forbidding persons to enter into or on that building
or place without Isis permission, if any per on not having
a right of entry, or way into, on, or over that building or
place, enters into, on, or over the saineor any part thereof,
in contravention of the notice, he shall, fur every such
offence, be liable to a penalty nut exceeding U. This new
act has immediate operation.
TILE CATTLE DISEASE IN CHESHlRE.—Cheshire
in five months has lost 63,000 bead of (cattle by the plague,
of the value of W),0001., independent of the heavy loss
sustained by the farmers who eld other thous/ends of their
cattle under the dread of the disease. To this has to be
added the great depreciation of the value of hay and
straw, and the extinction of all profits from dairy farms
(the sole reliance of the county), also a stagnant trade in all
agricultural towns, resulting in a decrease of the means of
the ratepayers to meet the increased burdens thrown
on the rates by unemployed agricultural labourers end
dairymaids. The duty on the county rate compen-
sation for the animals slaughtered Is rapidly ac-
cumulating, and with the expenses of the act, will pro-
bably during the current year reach the immense sum of
360,0001. Prior to the Cattle Diseases Prevention Act
coming into oeration 38,500 head of cattle were either
killed or died off the plal„nie, the value of which stock, with
the expense of compulsory burial, has been an entire loss
to the owners and farmers, and is estimated at upwards of
50,0001. A public subscription has been entered into to
give sonic assistance to these sufferers, and the landlords,
most of whom have been sufferers by the lilac:me, and have
had to assist their tenants, have come tarward most
liberally. It is estimated that to give any real assistance
the sum of at least 100,0001. would be required. 22,0001.
is the amount at present subscribed.
THE AFFAIRS OP BARNED.B BANKING COMPANY
(Lionaers).—Our Liverpool correspondent writes : "We
hear an effort is being made to give such a turn to the
private negotiations now in progress with reference to the
bank, that the " counter" business, which it is said has
always been of a lucrative character, may he retained, and
the bank re-opened upon a less speculative scale. W
is
egather from a circular issued yesterday, that an effort
being made to place the liquidation of the bank in London
hands. A strong local feeling, however, prevails in favour
of appointing Mr. H. W. Itenner as liquidator, should the
affairs of the bank take that course. A local paper gives
the following as an approximate estimate of the assets and
: On hills in circulation, 1,800,000/. ;
on drafts on London and deposits, 1,100,0001. ; on accept-
ances, 500,000 f. ; total, 3,40 s,OOO/. Assets : Cash in hand,
6&000g. ; 2,800,000/. ; loans, 1,000,0001. ; profit and
loss, 40,0001. ; total, 3,900,0000 i.
A VICTIM OF THE JOINT STOLE. DISCOUNT COM-
PANY.— An hist:awe of the serious consequences resulting
from the failure of the Joint Stock Discount Company
occurred at Bury St. Edmunds on Sunday. A baker re-
siding in that town, named Paelder, who by a life of in-
dustry hail amassed a few huns:red pounds, was induced
to invest it in the purchase of 50 shares, regarding them as
offering a good investment. When the break up of the
affair became known he fell into a state of despondency.
Re was fearful that he should be unable to meet the calls
for which he was liable, and his altered position so preyed
upon his mind, that he at length put an end to his exist-
ence by hanging himself. He Ism left a widow and several
children.
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It appears from the
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General that in
the week that ended on Saturday, April 21, the births re-
gistered in London and twelve other large towns of the
United Kingdom were 4,606 ; the deaths registered, 3,40.1.
The annual rate of mortality was 29 per 1,000 persons
living. In London the births of 1,161 boys and 1,06-3
in all 2,244 children, were registered in the week. In the
coerespoading weeks of ten years 1856-d.5 the average num-
ber, corrected for increase of population, was 2,093. The
deaths registered in London during the week were 1,517.
It was the sixteenth week of the year ; and the average
number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for
increase of population, 1,377. The deaths in the present
return exceed by 140 the estimated number. Whooping-
oough proved fatal to 84 children, the disease being most
prevalent in the south districts of the metropolis. 24
deaths were caused by smallpox, 50 by measles, 27 by
scarlatina, and 48 by typhus.

The attitude of Bavaria will be shown during
the negotiationa for the election of the Committee,
which will shortly take place.

ITALIAN FINANCE.
FLORENCE, Aram 24.

The Finance Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies have proposed, by eleven against four
votes, the imposition of a tax of 8 per cent. upon
Italian Rente. Signor Scialoja, Minister of
Finance, is adverse to the proposal of the cum_
mittee.

INDIA.
(By direct Overland Telegraph.)
BOMBAY, APRIL 17, 5 P.Y.

Import markets quiet, and prices drooping.
Cotton very dull. Exchange on London, 2s. lid.
Freights, 40e. The latest London date is the
13th instant.

CALCUTTA, APRIL 16.
Markets quiet. Exchange on London, 2s. lid.
Freights, 455.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROW OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, ThEaDAY EVENDI6.

The famous and mysterious Count Arese, who
only returned to Florence from Paris a few
days ago, is said to be on his road hither
again. This is not the same Count Arose
who is with the Italian minister Viscount Venosta
at Vienna, where the Pays, echoing the telegrams,
says he has a " secret mission."

The Muni/cur did not think fit to take
any notice of the marriage of Mdlle. Bouvet, the
Empress's reader, which took place at the chapel
of the Tuileries, on the day already mentioned—
April 22. The witnesses for the bride were Vice-
Admiral Juries de la Graviere, aide-de-camp
to the Emperor, and M. DupernS, orderly officer ;
and for the bridegroom, Baron Marco de l'lsle,
Prefect of the Palace, and M. Bonnard, Member
of the Council-General of the Aisne. This morning
the Moniteur publishes a decree appointing
Madame Carette a " lady of the palace," but
without informing the public that she was Madlle.
Bouvet. The newly-married pair have gone to the
Aisne, where M. Carette has a large estate.
The France says that the Duke do Choiseul
Praslin, the hero of a terrible drama in Louis
Philippe's reign, who was officially reported to
have committed suicide in prison, pending the
accusation for murder against him, was lately
met in the streets of London by his former
valet de chamber. It is now believed
that he escaped to California and that
after living there for twenty years under a false
name he returned to Europe only a few months
ago. It will be remembered that very great doubts
were expressed at the time as to the fact of his
death, and it is by no means incredible that a go-
vernment under which occurred the affair of the
Baronne de Feuchk-es should have lent itself to
the fable of his suicide to avoid scandal.
At the Bourse the fall of in Consols, and the
weakness of the other markets of Europe, shook
the confidence of the public in the telegrams which
I report that Austria is satisfied with the Prussian
answer. The Bente, after some fluctuations,
closed heavily at a shade lower than yesterday.
Italian fell 40c.

THE NEW VICAR OT GP.ERNWICH, —Yesterday
the Rev. Dr. Miller (who has recently resigned the rec-
tory of Birmingham) received at the hands of his congre-
gation,
and from the inhabitants of that town generally,
several substantial acknowledgments of the great and
varied services he has rendered during the twenty years he
has held the rectorship. The proceedings took place in the
Town-hall at twelve o'clock. There was a very large at-
tendance of ladies and gentlemen, the latter including all
the most influential clergy and laity. The Mayor (Mr.
Edwin Yates) presided. An address on behalf of the town
was presented by the Rev. G. D. Boyle. of Handsworth ;
this was accompanied by a cheque for one thousand guineas,
which the mayor handed to the doctor. Mr. J. Gough,
one of the wardens of St. Martin's Church, pre-
sented an address from the doctor's congregation. This
set forth in eloquent language the sentiments of those who
have had the advantage of his ministry, and expressed the
deep regret felt at parting with one so much revered. The
congregational gift was a purse containing six hundred
jesoer; and a large chest filled with silver plate. Colonel
on behalf of the Rifle Volunteers, presented •
handsome vase. Addresses were read from other public
bodies, and sentiments expressive of the warmest testimony
to Doctor Miller's character and worth were uttered by
every speaker. The doctor acknowledged the testimonials
thus offered to him in an eloquent speech, the whole
assembly rising when be stood forward to ad&esa them.
The farewell sermon will be preached on Sunday next.
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its cost in other remedies, and is the beet food for infants
50,000 cares annually.—Drs Barry and Co., No. 77, Esentstivsit,
London, W. In tins, at Is. lad. • 11b., 9d..• tuba 22e.
40a. also atilt, Graceehurch:street 4, Cbcolidde: Oil, 150,
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