The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-04 00:00:00

'ATION CASE. I LATEST INTELL MENGE

4 SINGULAR ARBITR.

A very singular arbitration case bait beeh deduct netore
the Recorder at Preston. When anxiety as to the fate of
the Irish Church Bill was at its height in Blackpool, the
Rev. James Wayman, Independent minister, and the Rev.
W. 11. Wylie, Baptist minister, both issued a placard
vindicating the Church Bill. This publication made
three remarkable statements, to the effect that the
members of the Established Church in Ireland
had decreased between 1834 and 1861 by over
150,000; that in the same period Dissenters, not including
Presbyterians, had increased by over 50,000 ; and that the
sum to be paid back to Government for Irish parsonages
will not amount to £150,000. To these three assertions
two Church of England clergymen—the Rev. N. S.
Jeffrey, vicar of Blackpool, and the Rev. C. 11. Wain-
wright, incumbent of Christ Church, also of Blackpool--
objected, and they issued a " challenge to the Radicals,"
offering £5 reward if the authors of the first placard (who
were not then known) would thoroughly substantiate their
allegations. On Wednesday the Recorder of Preston
was asked to arbitrate for both sides .in the matter.
After the various parties hal quoted largely from par-
liamentary returns and speeches made by Mr. Bright
and Lord Cairns, and a very intricate calculation on the
disputed points bad been made, the learned Recorder
decided that, although he was in favour of Messrs. Way-
man and Wylie's assertions on the first and third points,
he could not be so on the second, and therefore lie must
give the case against them.

RA TES OF FREIGHT AND CHARTER.

(From the Skipping and Mercantile Ca:ette.i

The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and
the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 46,900 tons, and that
for Australia and New Zealand to 33,600 tons, sheaving
falling off of 6,850 tons for the East, and 7,150 tons for
Australia and New Zealand.

There is considerable dulness in the shipping trade.
Eastern outward freights have declined, and for many
ports there is very little doing. Present rates are £33
Bombay, with full consignment, £22 to £23 Point de
Galle, £33 Aden, Singapore 245., Hong Kong 355. full
consignment, Shanghae 425. Gd. The order for Osaka
'Japan) at 425. Gd. is still in the market.
Rice freights arc rather weaker. Little is being done
by guano charterers from the Chinchas or G uanape Islands,
but there is an order for two or three ships from Baker's
Island (the Pacific) at 755. to United Kingdom.
West India shippers still appear indifferent as to taking
up ships. Havana commands £lB and Hs. from the North
and Wales respectively ; Kingston (Jamaica), £l9 ; Cape
Verds, ; and St. Thomas, 15s. from Wales.
The chief inquiry for steamers is for the Baltic. There
is still a considerable quantity of iron for shipment to
Russia, to complete the numerous contracts which have
been entered upon this season. Twenty shillings is being
offered for boats to Cronstadt, 19s. to 21s. for Riga for
railway iron ; and there is still a large parcel for Stettin
from the North, for which charterers offer 14s. The
grain freights from Cronstadt are without alteration, but
oats can be obtained from Riga at 2s. Gd. to 2s. 9(1. per im•
perial quarter.
Mediterranean rates ehew no sign of improvement, £2l

from the Tyne and 18s. from Wales being the best obtain-
able for Alexandria, £l4 and 13s. Malta, and 11s. Cd.
Gibraltar. Freights for this season's grain from the
Danube are a trifle lower than last week, t's. Gil. being
with difficulty obtained from Galatz. Trieste, ss. per
qr. ; Alexandria, 225. cotton seed. Black Sea freights
rule quiet at last week's quotations. _

The current timber quotations are :—Quebec to London,
295. timber, 775. Gd. dry deals ; Gaspe to Bristol 755. ;
Richibucto to London 775. 6d. ; Sundswall and neighbour.
hood to London, 455., to Channel Ports. 505., to West Coast
555. ; Gefle to London, 425. 6d. ; Cronstadt to London,
Sss. ; Wyburg to London, 40s. ; West Coast, 50s. ; Sayan-
nab, Darien, Brunswick to London, 375. Gd., United
Kingdom (calling for orders) 408. ; Jamaica to United
Kingdom, 355. logwood ; Gulf of Mexico to United King-
dom, 655. ; Wanx River to United Kingdom, 50s.
mahogany ; Belize to United Kingdom, 475. Gd.

A correspondent of the Church Times has visit&
14 churches of the City of London. Ho gives their names,
computing their annual value at .E7,074.' 162 persons
attended their services on the Sunday he visited them. In
one church the officials were supplemented by only one
person ; in two there were three present ; and in two others

In ref erence to the Tipperary election, the Lime-
rick Reporter and Tipperary Vindicator states that "a
strong feeling prevails that the vacant seat should be
secured for young Mr. Moore, the son of the late honest•

hearted and noble-minded member. Mr. Moore, jun., is
in his twentieth year, and his uncle, or his late father's
partner, could hold the seat for him until the arrival of his
majority. The name of Captain E. J. Power Lalor,
D.L., has been most favourably spoken of all over the
vounty also. A letter states positively that Henry
Munster, Esq., of Cashel, is resolaed to come forward.
POISONING BY STENCIININE.—A case of poison-
ing by strychnine has just occurred at Terrisholme, near
Lancaster. A young woman, named Jane Ellen Clifton,
25, domestic servant, was engaged to Le married to a
young fisherman. For some reason he neglected to have
the banns published at the time Le promised, and this
grieved the ycung woman deeply. She grew depressed in
spirits, bought a packet of "vermin powder," took it, and
died within an hour afterwards. The chemist who sold
the powder said a 3d. packet contained strychnine enough
to kill five adults, yet he did not register the sale of the
powder, because he did not consider it came under the
Sale of Poisons Act. It was stated that this evasion was
common all over the country.

DR. APLEOD AND HIS BEADLE. —Dr. Norman
111.`Leoci was about to resign his parish at Linlithgow, for
Park Church, Glasgow, recently vacated by the Rev.
Mr. Charteris, now Professor of Biblical Criticism in
the University of Edinburgh. At a dinner after the
induction at Glasgow, the Rev. Dr. M`Leod told the
following anecdote :—" I confess that I would have been
content to have been permitted to live and die at Linlith-
gow. Indeed, m y old beadle was very much of the same mind.
When I first went to Linlithgow, he took me into the
graveyard, and shewing me the graves of my predeces-
sors, said, `There's where Dr. Bell lies, and there's where
Dr. Doble lies, and there's where you will lie if you are
spared.' He was indignant with me when I accepted the
call to Glasgow. ' Well,' he said, 'ye are the first minister
that was ever lifted out of Linlithgow, except to the
grave.' And I don't think he yet pardons me for having
deprived him of that satisfaction."
PROFESSORSHIPS.—Without inferentially pre-
judging the case of " Professor " Risley, which has yet to
be fully tried, may we not ask how it is that the title of
" Professor" has been assumed by bear-leaders, acrobats,
or knife-swallowers? Nobody minds the exaggerated
claims to monarchy of a Fire-King, but the prefix of Pro-
fessor is, to say the least of it, bewilderinr- and incon-
renient. We believe the first of these self-dubbed practi-
tioners was a sleight-of-hand wizard, who gave a certain
scientific airand turn to his business by taking the dignified
application of a university teacher. After him we had
professors of mesmerism, of corn-cutting, and of dancing--
professors in their own right, professors without end,
until we shall soon find ourselves driven bycab professors,
and served by professors of the fine art of waiting. Would
it not be well to impose a tax on the people who
raquire this ornamental addition to their names?
It is surely as luxurious to call oneself a Pro-

lessor as to stick powder on a footman's head,
or to keep a dog to fetch and carry. The
gentlemen of Oxford and Cambridge and the other
Universities who are designated in this fashion, and who
neither stand on their heads nor exhibit monsters, and
are content to sit in their respective chairs without
balancing them on their respective chins, might be ex-
empted from the impost. We see no better way of putting
a stop to a fully which has gone far enough when a Pro-
, lessor is found playing on a tin whistle and a coffeepot at
a music-hall.—Daily News.

DESTRUCTION OF MESSRS. DAY AND MARTIN'S
BLACKING MANUFACTCRT.—Late on Friday night a fire
was discovered in the well-known blacking establishment
of Messrs. Day and Martin, Holborn. The inflammable
character of the materials with which the place
was stored soon created an extraordinary body
of flame. The building consisted of a spacious
floor used for packing, and containing valuable
engines ; and an upper floor where the blacking
was manipulated. To the very substantial character of
the building may be attributed the fact that the fire did
not spread to the buildings on each side. The walls
were of enormous thickness ; the flooring of the upper
portion rested upon iron girders ; and the roof was of
glass and iron. So fierce was the fire, that the glass in
the roof melted ; but the iron girders remained in their
ulaces. A very large force of land steamers was
.ummoned to the spot, and an immense volume of water
poured into the building from several points ; but all the
cflorts of the firemen failed to reduce the flame until it
.3ad almost exhausted itself ; and then the outer walls and
the iron girders of floor and roof were all that remained.
Fortunately, the offices and counting-houses were un-
touched, so that a cursory view from Holborn will not
disclose the disaster which has happened. One
steamer was placed in Dean-street, and pl:•,yed upon the
burning portions from neighbouring houses. The scene
from Ifolborn when the fire was at its height was ee-
markable, the fire illuminating one side of the street with
singular vividness, while the opposite side was thrown
Into the. deepest gloom; About one o'clock the fire
was extinguished, but the premises were then a total
wreck. Tl2l‘ lon to the_ flok ja_fallysoyeiscl, by
Immo.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.

Secretary Ranliu and Senator Fassendeu are
seriously ill.
The North German Lloyd steamship Rhein
arrived out yesterday at 9 p.m.
The Columbia of the Anchor line arrived out
to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.
Gold closed at 1361 ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 1361; the lowest, 1354.
Sterling Exchange on London lOBl.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1889
44 " 1885 1221.
tt " 1867 l2ll.
10-40 46
Illinois l3Bt.
Erie 3l*•
Cotton--Mid. upland

Petroleum—Standard White 32le.
Flour, extra state, $6.45e. to $7.5c. Corn, old
mixed, $1,1..17e.

According to Mr. Adam Moff,at's report the
week's receipts of cotton have been 4,000 bales.
Shipments to England, 1,300 bales; to France,
none and to the Continent, 700 bales.

INDIA. AND CHINA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Massilia, with the above mails, 24 passengers,
£6,322 in specie, and 1,174 packages of cargo, has
arrived here. She experienced fine weather through-
out her passage.

GIBRALTAR, Aug. 30.

The Mediterranean squadron got under weigh
and steamed out of harbour this morning. Ex-
change on London, 49t to 2 ; on Paris, sf. 25c. ;
Madrid, par to 1.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 4.

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Hammonia, from New York, has arrived here with
145 passengers, 83 sacks of mails, and $BO,OOO ill
specie. She experienced easterly winds and variable
weather throughout the passage. On the 31st ult.
she passed the Rhine. Five passengers, 45 sacks ei
mails, and $75,000 in specie were landed, and she
proceeded to Cherbourg. The mails were for-
warded by the 7.15 a.m. train.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 4.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's stearne
Massillia, with the India mails, passed the Needles
at 2.45 a.m. to-day.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Sept. 3.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :-
4i per Cent. -
End of month... Ital'a.ri Fives 6O
3 per Cent
End of month 7l 95 Ottoman Loan ... 320 —:
Credit Mobilier
Transatlantic 270 Spanish Threes ... 28 ---
Credit Fonder l7lO Home Debt
Paris Gas 1605 50 Deferred ... -- —..
RAILWAYS. Cash
Orleans
Western
Northern ... 1097f
Strasburg . 597k
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.... 611;
Sardinian
Austrian BO7l
Lombard 535
North of Spain 52
Saragossa,
Roman s2f