The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-17 00:00:00

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'0 US NEWS.

we may onervse mat, a tnousana wording men nave
joined the association.
TIIE TURF AND .THE BREED OF HORSES.
The letter of Admiral Roils to the Times has
attracted a fair amount of attention. Its obvionr
defect is that it is written " in the interest of the
racing world." "E. D. II." very neatly sums up the
arguments against the Admiral and those who hold
that the laceliorse has not deteriorated. " They
think, speak, and write of our blood-horses as if they
were designed not for our persOnal use, but to slimy
fleetness for a few yards at two or three years old;
and this not even in sport, but in commercial specu-
lation. And while the present system of racing con-
tinues, the single quality of fleetness will overcome
all other considerations." A horse is good if it
has" pluck " enough to hold on at a killing pace_for
about ten minutes; bad if it cannot do this.
OBITUARY.
The Times obituary contains the names of five
persons who have died at over 80 years of age, one
of them at 92. Among the others are Mr. 'Wardrop,
surgeon to George IV., and who was 87, and Mr.
Gye, formerly M.P. for Chippenham, who was 89.
Mr. Wardrop is understood to have left some MS.
which throws much light upon the character of his
royal patient. As that character will scarcely bear
much light, no doubt the MS. will be judiciously
suppressed.

TUE COMING BATTLE.
The rumours which usually usher in a new session
are afloat. All kinds of strange things are whispered
under the rose by those who profess to know the
workings of the minds of the great political men.
Notwithstanding the Premier's cheery declaration at
Fishmongers' Hall, that the path indicated by the
people as to the Irish Church was too unmistakeable
to admit of the Government turning back in the
road it has taken; notwithstanding that there
is not the slightest foundation for it, the
lounger at the clubs" will persist in spreading
the story that "Gladstone has not made up his
mind, you may depend upon it." Simultaneously
we have the announcement that Earl Russell has
made up his mind, and that he is going to move an
amendment on Mr. Gladstone's bill. This last state-
ment it would indeed be difficult to contradict, for,
having changed his mind so often, who could say that
the noble lord will not, when the bill comes to be
read a second time, enroll himself as an aide-de-camp
to Lord Cairns, and make a powerful speech against
all change.

MR. BRIGHT AND THE IRISH CHURCH.

The Morning Advertiser points attention to the
fact that in the recently-published volume of Mr.
Bright's speeches there is given also one letter from
Mr. Bright. As this one has been singled out above
all those which he has written, importance must be
attached to it, and it may be fairly supposed to
represent his views at the present time. This letter
refers to the Irish Church, and was written in 1852.
Its views are, according to the Advertiser, identical
in principle with those set forth in Lord
Russell's last letter. Mr. Bright assumes that the
value of the Church revenues is equal to a capital
of 210,000,000. He proposes that a commission
should hold this property in trust, and appropriate
81,000,000 of it to each of the three Churches in
Ireland. He adds that the remaining 87,000,000
ought to be reserved for purposes strictly Irish, and
directed to the educational and moral improvement
of the people, without respect to class or creed. The
Advertiser infers that Earl Russell knew perfectly
well what he was about when he published his letter.
He knew that the most vigorous and determined
man in the Cabinet was on his side, and he said to
hiinself, " You may groan or you may grumble, but
you will .have to do it after all." Needless to say
that our contemporary protests against any such
scheme as this, and declares that it has no right to
be proposed to Parliament, because it was never
before the public.
THE PREMIER ACCORDING TO ORANGEMEN.
The Orangemen of Manchester met together to
keep their spirits up on Monday night. The prin-
cipal " gun of the evening was a most extravagant
abuse of Mr. Gladstone. This seems to amuse our
Protestant defenders immensely, and they cheered
the speaker to the echo. The Satanic ambition of
the Premier, said the chairman to the excited
meeting, reminded him of the individual of whom
Milton said that he
" Would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven."
A thief was a thief, whether he was Prime Minister
or peer ; and the robber and spoliator of
the Irish Church must be a thief. Orangeism
represented 500,000 men ; armed men ; for they
must remember that the Bill of Rights gave to all
Protestants the privilege of bearing arms. lie would
have to ask a great army of English and Scotch
Orangemen, and a vast army in the Canadas. If
Mr. Gladstone wished to break up the British Empire,
or if he liked to " cry havoc, and let loose the dogs of
war," the sooner he started the better. Tlns very
mild and Christianlike speech was made, be it
observed, in defence of religion.
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY.
•
The funeral of Mr. Bell, the late member for the
City, and the issue of an address by Baron Roths-
child, took place simultaneously. The Baron might
just as well have waited 24 hours lon,vr, the more so
as there is little chance of opposition. At a meeting
of the Liberal party, presided over by Sir B. Phillips,
that gentleman was himself named as a candidate,
but he said that he should waive his claim in favour
of the Baron. It was mentioned that at the
last election 7,137 electors signed pledges to
poll for the Baron, and that a fourth
portion of his own supporters were at his
own request withdrawn from his poll and added
to that of his colleagues, Mr. Goschen, Mr. Crawford,
and Mr. Alderman Lawrence, in fulfilment of an
agreement necessitated by the minority clause, but
for which clause he would now have been member for
London. The Baron is 61 years old, and in by no
means robust health. A more energetic man would
have been a better candidate ; but then the chief
Exchange in tile world must elect tile woria.s greatest
bander.

CUBA. 0
A letter from a very well-informed personage in Cuba
states that the only terms upon which the insurgents
will consent to treat are complete emancipation and a
Government similar to that of Canada. By the system
of avoiding general engagements, and harassing the troops
over a trackless country, the insurrection continues to hold
its (•round.

THE DOMINION OF CANADA.
Mr. Joseph Howe has accepted of ice in the Canadian
Cabinet as President of the Privy Council. The PO4/ deems this a sign that the fierce anti-union feeling in Nova
Scotia has greatly diminished. Much of this good result,
our contemporary thinks, is due to Mr. Howe, who endea-
voured to mitigate the demanils of his countrymen as
soon as he found that it was hopeless to insist upoa
them. The practical effect of this change of policy has
been most beneficial. Not onlydoes.it put an end to the
dispute between Nova Scotia and tile rest of the Dominion,
but in all probability Newfoundland, which might have
remained out of the Union. will now join IL Prince
Edward's Island will then follow, and as the annexation
of the Hudson's Bay Territory is merely a matter of
money, 1869 may yet witness th, union, under ona
Government, of that vastdominionwi deb stretches from tio
frontier of the United States to th, p Arctic Ocean.

(From the Anglo-Amer ican Times.)

YORK, Jan..
Last Saturday an impudent -robbery was oat-
tempted on the Park Bank ne) :t to the herald
oflico. The cashier's desk has a pla to-glass window
only between it and the space devote 1 to the public,

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through which a thief knocked a hole, thrust in
his hand, grasped a bundle of greenbacks ($1,000),
and skedaddled. In the street he transferred the
booty to an accomplice, but the pursuit was hot,
the bank clerks haviitg taken up the running.
Edward C. Penton, the man who took the money,
was captured, though he tried the dodge of dropping
some of it as be ran along, perhaps remembering
the interesting tale of the wolves. Nevertheless he
was grabbed in Nassau-street, and committed for
trial at the General Sessions, though his companion
has, for the present at least, got off. The window
was smashed by a thick iron instrument weighing
some 101 be., expressly made for the purpose, and
considering it was done is broad daylight your
readers may have some idea of the state to which we
are approaching in this city. A lot of counterfeitors
were lately arrested. A box containing cheques
and certificates of stock to a large amount have also
been stolen from the office of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. The sentence was pronounced
on the 25th inst. against Blaisdell, Eckel, and
M'Laren. The first, awarded three years of Sing
Sing, received tie intimation with a grim smile ;
E .kel made no sign when consigned to three years
of the Albany Penitentiary ; but AleLaren,
who only got four months, seemed to rejoice
thereat. The antecedents of the latter were not of
the purest character, as he was indicted with Mrs.
Cunningham for the murder of Dr. Harvey Bur-
dell fifteen years ago. Your readers are aware
that these culprits were found guilty of defrauding
the revenue of the tax on whisky, and great efforts
were made to get them off, the District Court being
thronged with men well known in the whisky ring.
The sailors are on strike for a rise from $l6 per
month to $3O; and the job printers are also on
strike for 50 to 54 cents per 1,000 " ems." The
sailors had a great procession, with banners in-
scribed " Free Trade" and " Sailors' Rights," but
they were very orderly, and included all nationali-
ties. They did get up a groan for the owners of
the ship Brooklyn, but beyond this they only lis-
tened to a few speeches in Franklin-square, and
resolved not to engage under $3). An island of
Long Island Sound, containing 11,000 acres, is to
be turned into a hunting ground, having been pur-
chased for that purpose. Our supply of water was
interrupted by a break in the main pipe, and it is
extraordinary the inconveniences New York suf-
fered during the few hours the Commissioners were
working the necessary repair. Tom APGibney,
whose arrest I announced as the murderer of
Rogers, has been discharged, as it appears certain
that he is not the man. A lawyer states that some
years ago he had to defeni three ruffians who were
committed to the State prison, but after serving out
their time they were discharged last month, and his
clerk had seen them about Twelfth-street near th e
spot, and that one wore a coat similar to the piece
torn from that of the murderer. Col 3. Augustin,
Ricardo Pimental, Capt. Lorenz ) Jimenez, Abelard
Vreco. and Jose Antonio Cintra, met their friends
this morning at their headquarters, the Metropoli-
RUSSIA. I tan Hotel. Their object is to I urchase arms and
Mr. Kinglake's "Invasion of the Crimea" has been munitions, which on securing they will return and
detained by the censors of the Russian Government for a take part in the war for independence in Cuba. We
long time ; but it is now permitted to be in the ought to be careful with the Ala,banzl case before
capital. The correspondent of the Post relates that
Prince Menschikoff, whom Mr. Kinglake handles very lity. It makes d 'lll difference how I regard
us how we countenance such breaches of neutra-
roughly, went the other day into the shop of an English a woner
ythe robber whether the stoours. I will give. 3oU any l
information I canen property be mine or
bookseller in St. Petersburg, and asked for "a new
English work of any kind." The attendant, utterly -, _
forgetful of the lamentable appearance made by his gather about the Rogers murder case, as more will
customer in Mr. Kinglake's book, offered him a copy be known before I close
my letter.
of it ; but the Prince, making a face suggestive of a Three men lately arrested have been examined,
sudden attack of cholera, muttered something to the James and Michael Logan, and James Tallan t.
effect that "he did not care much for that kind of litera- The former is evidently
a simple, hard-working
ture," and went hastily out of the shop. I man, but against the latter suspicions are enter-
s NATTER IN THE WRONG PLACE. tained. Indeed, it is said, that a woman named
Austria, being now the freest of the great continental Martha Clearwater, can give information which
States, has been chosen as an eligible residence by such will fix the murder on him. On the fatal morning
competency more or less am
a host of monarchs retired from business on a
she assisted him in exchanging his torn coat for
ple, that their presence is another, together with a hat. They remained in
becoming a serious embarrassment. The ex-King of her apartments in Green-street for two days. As
Hanover, the ex-Elector of Hesse, the Duke of Modena, I write more information is expected, tut the
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the Duke of Parma, and all authorities are convinced that this woman can pro-
their relatives, not to mention the Connt de Chambord, duce the coat. The public are disappointed I now
are all congregated 'within the Austrian dominions. The
.learn at the evidence given by her, the most
most troublesome of these is the first mentioned. King important part of which is as follows :—" Between
George of Hanover still resides near Vienna, and seven and eight o'clock on the evening of December
his agents display such activity in his behalf as 31st, Logan called again at 171, Green-street, and
to give much trouble to the Government. The Emperor's
Cabinet would gladly get rid of the responsibility of keep. was dressed in the s.,me blue undercoat, pants, and
a heavy black overcoat,. and wore a different
ing guard over the dispossessed monarch, but the ex-
Ins other overcoat," and
style of hat--a soft Jfklpi.ne hat. I asked him
' what had become 0.
King's advisers urge him to remain in Austria, hoping
that the time will yet come when a war with Prussia will i - i had lot h•other • t •
is overcoat in
that morning he he answered that since he had seen me on
restore the Hanoverian dynasty. But, unfortunately for jumpino. the fences escap ng the police. Logan's
these sovereigns sans subjects, the modern tendency to iioCt hand was at the time bound up with rags ; I
diminish the number cf active partners in the crest busi. it,
ness of government seems to gain strength,and he answered that be had hurt it
noticed and asked him what was the matter
SPAIN. . lou the fences. He remained with me all the night,
undress only took
day)andat albeoftutt
but he did not
ntebed,, y
Though the opening of the Cortes Constituentes was A With his hand,
'rather riotous performance, there can be no doubt that and le.ty,do\w,enwo h
Year's eleven
honuose,elneeexkt
the ceremony awakened an amount of public interest and enthus'asra very rare in Spain. Perhaps some of this is m odr
havenliii (
not seen him since." The assistant Dis-
subjected her
to be accounted for on the supposition that though the
tSi
ipeayn
haveiards
nothave
forgottenu o t learnt
theirto a ropyree cfi
oart e
aunsipveeerstaaellseu.lTrTaghee, and
Attorney then to a close eross-
-was it a blue coat ? Answer—Yes.
examination, the substance of which was as fol-
hloewesa:rn—eQbaucekstion—That undercoat he had on when
crowd outside and inside the building in which the Q. Similar to the one he had on when he came
assembly met Was enormous. The route by which before. A. Yes. Q. You cannot tell whether it
the members of the Provisional Government reached was the same ? A. Na ' it was a blue cloth coat.
the Congress was thronged by enthusiastic thousands, the Q. But the overcoat had been changed from a
building was filled as soon as the doors were opened, and white coat to a black coat? A. Yes, sir. [The
at the review, which followed the inaugural ceremony, all I)
Madrid, speaking not metaphorically, was present. art of the murderer's coat shown her]. Coroner
Flynn—Q. Does that look anything like the coat?
on the second time ? A. No, sir,
of that day's proceedings. The absence of all but the
Isabella can hardly derive much hope from the account A. No, sir, that is nott the coat. Q. That is not
moat trifling demonstrations of hostile feeling shervasthat nor the first.,
ttihlt [Thhe murderer's felt hat
the Spanish may yet be led by a good Government, as well shown].
Q.
tsthe hat thenor at ? A. No, sir ; lam
as driven by a bad one. The Times eloquent correspondent sure that is not time
Q.
You the coat that he wore.
the coat he had
District Attorney. ~k-st_ say he. had his hand.
says that the opening of the Cortes created a feeling of
bound up with raa ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Which
unutterable relief dat the
an
in the hearts of all men, both in the Provisional Govern- it jumping over the fences •
? A. Yes. His hand
meat and among the people. They have every reason to was not so the first time he came ? A. No, sir.
congratulate themselves on the achievement. There is no Q. Are you sure what time he left you that first
instance on record of another nation living for so long a mornig? A. o'clock. Q. Ile
period of time in utter uncertainty of its own destinies to gon up to Sevenn
? A. Y,
es. Q any
Q. Did said
you seeh e hd
and trusting with so heroic a faith men whom chance, and letter in his pocket ? No sir. Q. You did not see
not choice, had charged with the guidance of those desti- what was in his pocket? A. No, sir. Q. How do
nies.
you know that it was seven o'clock in the morning
The same writer gives other important intelligence. when he left ? A. Because I heard the whistles
The election of Rivero as President of the Cortes by a blow. I know it was seven o'clock for I went down
large majority over Olozaga throws much light upon the stairs and shut the front door. Q. Did you see the
complication of parties. Olozaga, who is far more Con. hand, whether it was cut or not A. I didn't see
servative than River°, was the candidate of the Unionists the rag taken off. Yesterday the case was again up,
—the most Conservative of the popular parties. _ Prim and it does not revealt any new or important fea-
supported Olozaga more out of respect for his ture, except fixing I
Mr. Rogers
time of the murder and
engagements with Serrano than from any preference the declaration of 1‘,.1....
_. that his murderer
was a small man. ine biggest of the Logans is
for the candidate of less advanced opinions. The election
was determined by a large number of Progress' t d'
is s tare- certainly exculpated
by this evidence, as he could
not have been at the spot at the time, nor does he
garding their leader and voting with the Democrats and th ' • T
e answer the description. Two Custom-house clerks,
Republicans. The Times correspondent believes that Prim Messrs. Korn and Laidlaw, have been arrested for
was secretly rejoiced at this. The Progressist leader has I alleged frauds on the Government, extending
lost all hope, and perhaps all desire, to save the monarchy, through a eriod of two years, which they rea-
and is disposed to allow the country to drift into a
I ]zed $500,0p00, through false claims for drawback.
republic. He will certainly never vote for Montpensier, One name borne on the papers wits Fear, a broker who
and a Bourbon or Don Fernando is equally unlikely. l lately fled from the eta to. earrrirkg-Away a, largo sum On the other hand, the Liberte, which has conjured up I a third clerk' was arrested on Thursday, and there is
several royal phantoms only to have the satisfaction of great excitement in the Custom-house as others are
seeing them quietly exorcised, announces that Don
believed to be implicated. Indeed yesterday
of bail.sterday John
.
Fernando has consented to become the candidate of time 0 V. Wilson Was committed in default
Government. I Some negroes were yesterday assaulted at Brooklyn,
In commercial circles it is noted with satisfaction that William Edwards and a number of other coloured
persons being attacked by rowdies. Edwards and
the address read by Marshal Serrano at the opening of Horsey were conversingwhen some white men—
the Cortes contained a direct promise that the Government Hopkins, Gauley,
il
and others—pushed ers_pushed them into
intended to fulfil all its monetary obligations. the gutter ; then Gauley knocked Edwards down,
and Horsey coming to his assistance was asaulted.
The negroes on this fled, but were surrounded by the
gathering crowd, when Horsey drew a knife and
stabbed Hopkins, and by this escaped further
molestation. Edwardsl was not so fortunate, for
be was pursued by the mob through Canton-street
to Myrtle-avenue, and into a crockery store at the
corner of Rat:at:lnd-avenue, the pursuers yelling
" Kill the nigger!" and struck him senseless with
the earthen pots, Gauley was then arrested, af-
terwards rescued, but again recaptured. The
negro Horsey was also arrested, and identia
fled by Hopkins, who had been carried to hos-
pital. The sailors' strike is considered to
have ended, by tl e shipowners aereeing to the fol-
lowing terms :--To all ports of Europe and east of
the Bay of Mac my, $3O a month and $3O advance
to any port, in the West Indies, Spanish Main, East
Coast of South Ainerica, or West Coast of Afric I,
$25 a month and $25 in advance; to any port
around the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, $2O
a month and $lO in advance ; coastwise, $2O a
month and $l5 in advance • foreign vessels, $35 a
month and $35 advance. The journeymen printers,
however, have not yet settled matters. At a meet-
ing of the employers it was resolved that they can-
not accede to the scale of prices recently presented,
and it was announced that the firms that had
agreed to the terms only did so conditionally, and
would abide by the decision of that meeting. The
strike is confined to the book trade, and it has be-
come evident that the business of stereotyping,
printing, and binding should be removed from the
centre of the city to a more accessible locality,
where the workmen can get cheaper and more
healthy quarters.

. . .
THE SUN; LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1869.

THE STAFF OF I,ll'E.

A spirited attempt is being made to bring us
back to the consideration of first principles in the
constituents of so much of our food as is repre-
sented by the wheaten loaf. At present the wheat
and straw are brought together from the harvest
field, and, after separation, the wheat is sooner or
later passed to the miller. What the miller does
with it is well known. It is ground by him (1) into
best flour, or pastry whites; (2) into whites ; (3)
into households; (4) into seconds; (5) into thirds;
and (6) into fine middlings. A simpler classifi-
cation would be (1), into the flour which is sepa-
rated from the dressing machine, and is best on
second flour, according to the quality of the wheat
used ; (2) into the middling; which is passed
through the bolting machine to become fine mid•
dlings, coarse middlings, and third flour ; (3) into
the refuse or offal which is made over to the jumper
or frame of wire gauze that turns out superfin- pol-
lard, fine pollard, coarse pollard, and bran ; and
it may be remarked, as throwing light on the value
of some of the varieties, that sailors' biscuits are
made from fine middlings, and tlit pigs are fed
from second middlings. As for the pollards they
enter largely into the food of market poultry, and
as for the bran it is given to horses. Of the baker
this only need be said that he makes the dough from
two weights of flour and one of water, but he gets
his sponge from yeaet and salt; that generally he
only mixes potatoes to the extent of 81bs. to the
sack of flour ; that be submits to the prevailing de-
mand. for white bread, and sometimes may give
tenacity and colour to inferior flour by the use of
alum ; and that he excludes bran from household
bread. Such being the prevailing treatment of wheat
and bread, a set of questions arise that it will be
well to answer. Is this treatment of wheat such
as science would suggest? Is the present manu-
facture of bread satisfactory ? Is it possible, with
our knowledge of wheat, to make a short crop go
farther ; and that an average or full crop might
reduce the price of bread below the common level ?
This is the series. Taking it as it stands wheat is
composed of an outer and inner part, the inner
consisting of starch, the outer of gluten, and of the
earthy and the alkaline phosphates. The gluten
is flesh forming, the earthy phosphate bone and
teeth forming, the alkaline phosphate is healthy
blood forming. Starch, on the one hand, main-
tains animal heat, being totally wanting in flesh
and tissue forming power. Thus the present ma-
nufacture of flour is as unsatisfactory as it well can
be. It makes offal of the outer part of the wheat,
and apparently for no better reason than that it is
white and pleasing to the eye, it accepts the inner
part. It rejects what, in truth, is the better
part of the wheat ; as if it were indifferent
what is taken and what is left. But, ob-
viously, there ought to be no indifference. The
objet; of bread eating should be broadly looked
at. For inasmuch as the inner part neither forms
bone, muscle, nor flesh, its exclusive use in bread
leaves—unnecessarily leaves—those parts of the
body to be nourished by other flesh, muscle, and
bone forming elements. When such elements are
eaten in approximate proportions to those present
in entire wheat, no injury is done; but when they
are not partaken of, there necessarily is the inferior
development so often noticeable is the poor. The
chief dependence of the poor being bread, the 3 , in-
deed, are presumably unable to wake good the bone
muscle, and flesh forming deficiencies of bread as
at present sold. With the rich it is otherwise. At
pleasure they command whatever appetite or the
necessities of their bodies may require ' • and that
the rich are not always fine specimens of muscular
development is no answer to what is now affirmed.
Among the rich, as with others, there are numbers
incapable of great physical development; while
some, as with others, from indifference or igno-
rance, or even from perverted choice, accept of
starch as their chief nourishment. No wonder,
therefore, that such, both among the rich and poor,
should lose their teeth at an early age, and
even at the best have imperfectly formed teeth.
The special nutriment of the teeth, as of bone,
muscle, and flesh, is in the outer part of the wheat,
which, being neglected, cast aside as offal, in other
words used for the bone and flesh development of
horses, market poultry, and pigs, man, generally,
has an inferior physical development to that which
he might possess.
The first of the series of questions is thus answered
—the prevailing treatment of wheat is not such as
science would suggest. Nor is it marked by the
intelligence of the early Egyptian mortar grinding;
or the equally rational modes of corn grinding
throughout Brazil and the River Plate countries at
the present day. The second question, whether
the present manufacture of bread i 3 satisfactory,
stands in need of little more being said than has
been suggested by implication. No mere manipu-
lation of the inner pact of wheat, by whatsoever
name it may be called, will invest it with the pro-
perties of the outer part. The raw material of the
baker's craft must itself be changed. Then, as re-
gards the third question, whether it is possible,
with our knowledge of wheat,to make a short crop go
farther than we are likely to do at present, implica-
tion, too, has already helped us. At present consump-
tion is largely borne by the inner part of the wheat.
The outer part is rejected. Consequently we have
only to utilize the outer part to secure a large prac-
tical increase in our available supplies.—A nglo-
American Times.

SETTLEMENT OF THE NOVA SCOTIAN
DIFFICULTY.

The Canadian papers announce that the dispute between
Nova Scotia and the remaining portion of the Canadian
Dominion has beeu finally disposed of. It will be
remembered that Nova Scotia was averse to enter-
ing the union of all the British American provinces
on the ground that the terms of the arrangement were un-
favourable. It has now been agreed that an increase of
money appropriation shall be granted to Nova Scotia,
and that no change shall be made in the tariff. Sir
John A. Macdonald has agreed to bring a measure be-
fore Parliament to provide that the Nova Scotia debt, on her
coming into the Union, shall be fixed at a fraction 0ver9,000,000
dollars, being 2,000,000 less than fixed bythe constitution. An
annual subsidy is to be paid Nova Scotia from the com-
mencement of the Union, for tan years, of about 680,000
per annum. The Province Building in Halifax, which
cost 6250,000, is to be taken possession of by the Do-
minion, and Nova Scotia paid for the expenditures on it.
It appears that a despatch from Mr. Gladstone's Govern-
ment informed the Nova Scotians that they need not
expect any better terms, and thus the dispute was peremp•
torily terminated.

TR 4.DES UNIONISM IN BRISTOL.

Trades unions have just been exhibited in their best
aspect at a meeting held at the Broadmead-rooms, Bristol.
The object was the presentation of £lOO to a permanently
disabled member. Mr. Handel Cossham, who was in the
chair, delivered an interesting address, denouncing class legis-
lation, and declaring that combinations for lawful purposes
should be permissible alike among masters and workmen. The
property of trades-unions should bo protected the same as
um Property of an individual, and their fuudanreserved from
fraud or misuse. Mr. Boss said that he believed the best
thing that law could do was to remove the restrictions
.that stood in the way of trade and commerce, and
:et industry of all kinds have fair play, not
subjecting it to any unnecessary restrictions. Mr.
Robert Applegarth, the secretary, afterwards delivered
A lecture on trades' unions from the working man's point of
view. Ho said that some people imagined that trades'
unions were established for the sole purpose of increasing
wages and obtaining shorter hours, forgetting altogether their
benevolent aspect. Mr. Applegarth went on to show the
Treat difficulties under which unorganised labour suffered,
specially mentioning the " slop workers," the labourers in
the docks, and the agricultural labourers. The Post-office
enzployes, and the railway porters again had no trades
unions, and like other unorganised branches of industry,
they were ill paid. Their opponents then must point to
some bettor specimens than these before they could tell
them that they would do as well without trades unions as
with them. Alluding to the want of education
among English workmen, the speaker expressed his
surprise that they had got on as well as
they had, and advocated a system of compulsory education.
The member for whose benefit the meeting was called cer-
tainly furnished a favourable specimen of the advantages
conferred by such a society, since he only joined it in 180,
paying £3 13s. Gd. during his two years of member.hin
and receiving since his accidant the sum of £137.

A factory belonging to the -Nottingham Manufac-
tur;ng Company Limited, at Loughborough, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday evening. The damage is reported at
between £l,OOO and £5,000.
The testimonial subscribed for by the Liberals of
Cambridgeshire to their late member, Mr. R. Young, amounts
to upwards of GOO guineas. Mr. Young desired that the
money should be applied to the provisions of a dispensary
at Wisbeach. Tho committee have, however, decided to
present the testimonial in the shape of a dinner service, and
a suite of jewellery for Mrs. Young. The presentation is to
take place at a banquet, to bo given at the Guildhall, Cam-
bridge, on the 24th inst. Tho Right Hon. John Bright and
other members of Parliament have propaised to attend.

MADAME B.4CIIEL A2YD HE E,