The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1869.

? Thi3 elderly inaiviaual nas just been sen.
Unced by the Lord Mayor to fourteen days'
irnprisonment. He was a commercial traveller
nt some remote date, fell from that high estate,
and for a little while lived on the charity of his
friends. Then he took to begging, and lastly
entered the workhouse. But this latter institution
proved altogether unsatisfactory. Donald Thomp-
son's idea of happiness was plenty to eat and nothing
to do. The workhouse met neither of these condi-
tions perfectly well. After due deliberation Donald
resolved to go to gaol. Ile threw a stone
at a lamp, for which offence he has just
received the reward for which he so earnestly longed.
He goes to gaol, where he hopes to find good food
and comparatively nothing to do. What, we repeat,
can be done with him ? Hard labour seems the
only remedy, and that, it appears, the law does not
Prescribe.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From he Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, July 24.

Among the passengers in the Scotia, which left on
Wednesday, was :2;01. Richards Muckle, well known
for many years asthe business manager of the Phi-
ladelphia Public ledger. Mr. Childs, the proprietor
of the great estallishment at the corner of Sixth and
Chesnut Streets, having returned from his trip to
Europe, enables Mr. Muckld to visit France and
Germany for the rest and recreation he seeks. He
is called the Bergl. of Philadelphia on account of
the deep interest he has always taken in the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals, and he will attend
the International Convention about to meet in
Europe of the sodety of which he is so esteemed a
member in America. After our spell of extremely
hot weather a sudden change occurred, and it has
become as unseasonably cold. The heat drove
thousands from this city any where to the sea-
shore ; the cold detains as many thousands who
would otherwise nave gone. What I had pre-
dicted has proved true ; the increase last week
in the number of deaths being marked, and they are
classified :—From small-pox, 1 ; measles, 18 ; scar-
latina, 13 ; diphtheria, 8 ; croup, 4; hoopiug cough,
10 ; typhus fever, 6; typhoid fever, 3 ; cholera, 1 ;
cholera infanturn, 168 ; cholera morbus, 115 ; other
zymotic diseases, 26; total zymotics, 373 ; acciden-
tal or negligence, 23. Total from all causes, 726.
In the Public Institutions—Alms-House, 1 ; Belle-
vue Hospital, 16 ; Charity Hospital, B. 1., 10 ;
Coloured Home, 2 ; Fever Hospital, 8.1., 1 ; Home
of the Friendless, 2 ; Infant Hospital, Ward's Is-
land, 33 ; New York City Hospital, 1 ; Nursery and
Child's Hospital, 7 ; Randall's Island Nursery Hos-
pital, 1; St. Luke's, 3 ; St. Vincent's, 5 ; St.
Francis's, 2 ; Ward's Island Hospital and Refuge,
22 ; Workhouse, 1. Total, 107. Ages—Under 5
years of age, 501; under 10, 516 ; under 20, 556.
Men, 80; women, 90. Whites, 609; negroes, 76.
Nativities—British America, 1 ; East Indies, 7 ;
Germany, 48 ; Holland, 1; Ireland, 81 ; Poland,
3 ; Scotland, 4 ; South America, 1 ; Sweden, 7 ;
Switzerland, 1; United States, 565 ; unknown, 3 ;
West Indies, 1. In Brooklyn the same is apparent,
for, as reported by the Registrar, the deaths were
333, against 254 for the week previous. The prin-
cipal causes were as follows :—Cholera infantutn,
103 ; marasmus, 23 ; diarrhoea, 21 ; pneumonia,
16 ; measles and convulsions, 14 each ; dysentery
and consumption,ls each; debility, 9 ; scarlet fever,
8; cholera morbus and hooping cough, 6 each; can-
cer and disease of the kidneys, 5 each ; disease of
heart, old age, and paralysis, 4 each ; diphtheria,
erysipelas, bronchitis, and accidental injuries, 3
each, &c. Under one year of age, 180. Of men
there were 28 ; women, 28 ; boys, 134 ; girls, 142.
So severe were the comments of the press on
the dirty state in which the streets were kept
that the authorities have been stirred into action.
The streets have been thoroughly scoured, chloride
of lime being freely used, and the threatened out-
break of cholera has, I rejoice to state, been checked.
But what would really stop disease N. s V Oh 1
cl
hd
isb d to
bee
it possible, the stoppage of whisky, I,
be at the bottom of the 1,500 offences for which
persons were arrested last week. A. T. Stewart
has purchased 7,500 acres of the common known as
the Hempstead Flats, on Long Island, for which he
paid a cheque for $112,500. Hempstead is less than
20 miles from New York, near Long Island Rail-
road. The citizens of the town had to decide be-
tween his offer and a higher bid from a less respon-
sible competitor, Mr. Harvey, but Stewart received
1,077 votes against Harvey's 52, because they knew
that the improvements Mr. Stewart would make would
be more beneficial than even the ready money he
paid. Wide avenues are to be laid out, and man-
sions of all classes constructed for the over-crowded
business men of our city and its vicinity. A bridge
will soon connect Brooklyn and New York, which
will enable the resident at Hempstead to drive to
his office, or to go by rail if he prefers so to do, and
to cross without the aid of a fe; ry boat. There are
to he boulevards shaded with trees, and squares
wherein fountains will play. Around, the houses
will be varied in style of architecture and accom-
modation. Space, air, and drainage will be well
considered ; and, probably, in a few years, that
dreary waste will be changed into the most fashion-
able suburb of the metropolitan city. At the ex-
treraity of Fourth Avenue our wealthy merchant is
erecting a huge budding for the accommodation of
working women, the object being not very dissimi-
lar to that of Mr. Peabody in the design of his
Landon stsucture ; but it is calculated that even
the outlay of $6,000,000, as proposed by Mr
Stewart, will be fairly remunerative, as it will
Louse 1,500 women, yielding a rental of between
$2,000 and $3,000 a week, while the shops beneath
will largely increase this income. The building
will be eight storeys high, and the first storey as
well as the basement will be given up to shops, the
whole covering an immense area. In the match
made to trot Mountain Boy against American Girl
over the Union Course for $2,000, the latter won
easily, doing the first mile heat in 2.2334 and the
second in 2.212 e American Girl was, however,
beaten by Goldsmith Maid in the race at Phila-
delphia on Wednesday. Messrs. C. B. Elliott and
Seymour, of the Harvard crew, left in the City of
Boston last Saturday. It is said that Mayor Hall
thought the yacht Dauntless had been built in New
York when he ordered the salute of 100 guns to be
fired in honour of her quick passage across the At-
lantic, but it appears that she is a Connecticut boat.
Wilson, who gave himself up as one of the Ocean
Bank robbers, has been turned out of prison, as
thepolice do not believe in him and will have nothing
to do with him ; nobody knows why he aspired to
palm himself off as one of the gang, but the ambi-
tion of some, is beyond the ken of others. The
latest robbery was at Longlsland at Riverhead in the
jewellery store of L. H. Griffin. The two Prussians
alleged to be fugitives from justice, Edward Lorentz
and Otto, his son, have also been discharged, no
answer having been received to the message to
Berlin, and no charge therefore being made against
them. They had been arrested among the second-
class passengers of the German steamer Mahn by
detectives on a notification from the Berlin chief of
police. The harbour police in a raid have captured
several piratical boats, each containing two men,
and many filled with plundered merchandise ; al-
though armed, none dared to fight. Five men also
have been committed for counterfeiting revenue
stamps, and have confessed the crime. All the
Wall-street brokers indicted for usury have been
up before Judge Cordoza. Emanuel Knight and
Mr. Watts pleaded guilty last Tuesday. Edward
R. Jones, George Phipps, and David R. Morrison
also pleaded guilty on Monday, and others after-
wards. None of any great note were arrested,
and it is even rumoured that the whole was
a conspiracy of the " bears," who do not like
their victims to escape when they are caught short.
The death of E. P. Gibson, a well-known member
of the Stock Exchange, has been announced, and
the board adjourned after its 12 o'clock session on
Monday on receipt of the news. An ambulance,
constructed fcr the conveyance of injured men to
an hospital, appeared in our city yesterday for the
first time. The bottom, fitted with a soft spring
mattress, slides out and in on rollers, and there is a
seat for the sneon with medicines and instruments.
Four of them have been made for the Department
of Charities, and two are kept constantly ready.
Sing Sing burst out into open revolt, and has been
maintainicg a pretty game, considering that the
row is kept up ou bread and water. The convicts,
1,200 in number, being confined in their cells made
the prison hideous with discordant noises and fear-
ful imprecations. One of the chief officers has re-
signed, and :nquiries into the state of the prison are
being prose:sited ; still the inmates continue to
escape. Thccaptured Cuban fillibusters were released
on parole yesterday, except two or three Irish-
men. The account given of their imprisonment is
touching. A reporter says it threw Andersonville
into the shale, the prisoners being packed, like sar-
dines in a fox, in dungeons the rats had long for-
saken, cranmed in at the point of the bayonet. No
doubt the ;entleman drew on his imagination ; still
Fort Lafa,:ette may not have been prepared for so
sudden aninroad, as besides 124 taken on Gardi-
ncr's Islael, Marshal Barlow captured a camp at
Hackensack, largely increasing the number. 71,

Broadway put up the shutters, the Junta making
itself scarce, but Leinus has been dethroned and a
new agent elected. Two victories, however, are
now announced as having been gained by the insur-
gents on the 12th, 13th, and 14th July—the one
near St. Jago de Cuba, and the other near Puerto
Principe. The news of a Carlist rising in Spain as
well as in the Phillippines revives the drooping
cause, and immediately there are reports of another
effort, which we much doubt will ever be made.
Senator Fenton leaves to-day by the French steamer
for Havre, and notwithstanding that he declined
the honour he will have a considerable escort down
the bay. General Grant paid us a short visit.
There is to be a great ball at Long Branch next
Monday; the President and his party attended a
clam cake yesterday. He is beset by tourists, who
can quickly run down, but he takes the world easy,
driving about behind fast trotters, his friends fur-
nishing the traps for him is abundance. By the
way Ilorace Greeley was hurt, and had a narrow
escape from a serious accident by the horses of his
carriage taking fright there on Wednesday, and,
talking of Mr. Greeley, you will see in the Tribune
a very flattering notice of your paper, and the way
in which it is conducted. He recommends it to all
Americans, not only abroad, but at home, and I
more especially recommend their attention to its
New York letters, written by an able and talented
young man, who hopes some day to " run a
paper" of his own, to which those who appre-
ciate the merit of these letters will surely sub-
scribe. Yesterday the Cable from Brest was landed
at lluxbury, and is generally throughout America
hailed with acclamation ; and to-day the first
through train from Sacramento arrives, the Pullman
Palace carrying its passengers direct in six days
and a half. These facts give us a very comfortable
sense of progress. New York has lost an able engi-
neer in John A. Roebling, who died yesterday in
Brooklyn. You may recollect that I reported an
accident he had sustained, having his foot crushed
at the Fulton Ferry slip on the 28th June, the toes
being amputated, which has ended in lock-jaw and
his death at the age of 63. He was a Prussian and
educated at Berlin as a civil engineer, and to him
had been entrusted the plans of the bridge to con-
nect Brooklyn and New York.

WA SHINGT ON, July 23.

There is to be a grand ball to-night at the
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, to be present at
which several of our prominent citizens have left.
Gen. Lee is to be there, and Governor-elect Walker
was expected, but he is in his native town of Bing-
hampton, New York, and cannot be at two places at
one and the same time. A number of ladies and
gentlemen have left for Long Branch to be present
at the ball next Monday to the President and suite.
Mr. Wade has returned, as he has business to trans-
acc about the Union Pacific Railroad. The Talla-
poosa is to carry the Secretary of the Navy and Ad-
miral Porter on a tour of inspection to the Navy-
yards on the Atlantic Coast. The Guerriere has
arrived at New York, she was the flagship of the
South Atlantic squadron, and one of the largest of
our war vessels. A naval court-martial is to as-
semble at Pensacola, Florida, on the 2d of August,
for the trial of Captain Frank Munroe, of the Ma-
rine Corps. The Court is to be composed of the
following named officers :—Commodore Greene,
and Captains Gibson and Armstrong, of the Navy ;
Captains Ilibb and Bishop, of the Marine Corps,
and Paymaster Wait, of the Navy, Judge Advo-
cate. Commissioner Delano has return xl to work
up arrears of business, which accumulate very fast
in his absence. Secretary Boutwell will take two
weeks' leave to visit his home in Massachusetts, on
the return of the President. He has put forth a
notice on the new Bank-note paper, wherein one of
its peculiarities is described to be the introduction of
coloured silk, cotton, and other fibrous material
into the body of the paper while in the process of
manufacture. By the law of the United States it
is made a felony for any person to have or retain
in his custody or possession any paper adapted to
the making of any such obligations or securities,
and similar to that designated by the Secretary to
the Treasury. The Secretary has been pretty well
abused of late, and requires some rest ; he has had
also to contend against the fraudulent system which
attained so unhealthy a growth under the late Ad-
ministration. There are special agents here, and other
officers of the Treasury with anything but. encou-
raging reports ; large seizur,s of sugar have been
made at St. Louis, Chicago, ani Cincinnati, which
had passed the New Orleans Custom-house untaxed.
In Alabama tobacco has been seized, in Louisiana
a distillery, cigars and tobacco, besides sugar,
valued at $lBO,OOO. The cotton brokers of New
Orleans are being looked up. There is no law officer
of the Government atNew Orleans, in the absence in
Europe of the District Attorney, and Mr. Conk-
ling desires that counsel be sent to prosecute the
delinquents, so he has applied to the Attorney-
General on the subject. One might suppose that
dishonesty was the rule, but there are some curious
exceptions, if this man who styles himself "honesty"
is an exception, which I leave your leaders to de-
cide for themselves. Here is the text of his letter
which Mr. Boutwell has just received :
DEAR Stu,—lnclosed please find Sl7O. This is not
conscience money; but, doing a local business in a Penn-
sylvania town, and by care and management having made
it ply, I have thought that it would be injurious to my
business to have my full income published iu our village
paper; therefore 1 have paid a part of my income-tax to
the Collector, and the balance I send direct to you
.t c., HoNESTY.
_

It is not certain that General Cochrane will not
accept the Collectorship of the Sixth District of
New York, but there are several New Yorkers here
to press the claims of a politician. There is also a
Revenue Supervisorship vacant for the district, em-
bracing the States of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. The State Department has received a peti-
tion from the American residents in France through
the American Minister at Paris, asking that the
French postal rates be reduced to those paid be-
tween the United States and England. This
has been referred back to Senator Randall, who is
now in Paris to negociate some such treaty. The
Minister to England has had his attention drawn
to the case of Mr. Halpine, the Fenian now held in a
British prison. Ile is directed to renew the nego-
ciation broken off when Reverdy Johnson left.
The Mayor has sent in his message to the City
Councils, and a passage recommending that white
and coloured children be educated together has
caused much discussion. It is not generally re-
lished by either race, and it is easy to see why
such a proposition is at least premature ; Mayor
Bowen asserting that in all other respects distinc-
tion of race and colour having been abolished, he can
see no reason why this school distinction should be
maintained. The Lord Mayor of London used at
one time to be considered a great man, and whether
he is now, or not, I do not know, but I do know that
our Mayor is not a great enough man yet to abo-
lish all distinctions of race and colour by a message,
smart as he may be. I rather incline to the belief
that our negroes will retain their curly hair and dark
skin, with other trifling distinctions, notwithstand-
ing Mayor Bowen's edicts, and if the mothers
thought that their white children were going to
turn black, as the result of the contact, the opposi-
tion would be in no degree lessened. A coloured
man, named Vassbon, has been appointed by the
Mayor a trustee of the white schools. This gen-
tleman, for he is a gentleman, has been admitted to
the bar. For some time he had practised in New
York, and is a member of the bar of the United
States Supreme Court. Mr. R. A. Brown moved
for his admission, and Judge Fisher took the re-
sponsibility, as the Criminal Court had been de-
cided to be a separate Court, and directed his name
to be entered. Mr. Yashon is sail to be exceed-
ingly well read, and to have filled a Professorship
in the Alleghany College. The negro Alderman,
Stewart, has gone to Cape May for his summer
holiday, and the names of some negroes here now
find their place among the fashionable arrivals.
Poor Mary Walker, after her desperately persistent
efforts to get office, after going the rounds of all the
Departments, as eager to put her little hand in the
Treasury as to amputate a limb with the same little
hand, or to dash off a despatch in the name of
Uncle Sam, meeting with a final rebuff, while hang-
ing on to the skirts of the Treasury, burst into tears,
and had a good cry over the Wrong 6 of Woman.

If she had got Miss Anthony and Mrs. Cady Stan-
ton to let down their " back hair" and join her
woman's cause would have been lost, and all the
progress these ladies have so manfully gained would
have been instantly and femininely lost. Fortu-
tunately, however, the weak and erring sister was
alone, and her action will doubtless be repudiated.
The demand of another woman office-seeker has
dropped down to the ridiculously low point of a
sum sufficient to carry her from this city home. If
a good many of them could only get away without
paying their board there would be less accommo-
dation supplied for these flats, and the departments
would escape much worry. The White House is
being done up during the absence of the President
and his family. The public printer, Clapp, has
doubled the apprentices in the Government print-
ing offices i❑ spite of the Typographical Union,
who have just put off Douglass's:case till January.
A coloured woman, named Millie Gaines, has
lately been tried at Washington, for the murder
of her white paramour, James C. Ingle, a Go-
vernment watchman, and was acquitted on account
of insanity. The trial attracted special attention
from the fact that the jury was composed equally
of white and black men. Rumours have been re-
newed that Attorney-General Hoar is about to
resign, and the same is said of Mr. Boutwell, but
I have no reason to believe with any truth, al-
though one Secretary from Massachusetts may one
day soon go. Official proclamation has been made
of the recent Convention between the United States
and Peru for the adjustment of claims of the citi-
zens of either country against the other. One Com-
missioner is to be appointed by each Government,
and the two shall name an arbitrator, to sit at
Lima.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL. —His Excellency A. Mus-
grave, Governor of British Columbia, arrived at New
York from Halifax, by the City of Baltimore, and is at the
Clarendon Hotel.—Admiral Farragut and family arrived
in Chicago, July 21, and left in the afternoon for Cali-
fornia.—The Hon. Ebenezer D. Bassett (Negro), United
States Minister to Hayti, arrived at Port au Prince, June
14.—Viscount Adair, son of the Earl of Dunraven, is go.
in; to see the States. His income is $300,000, but he is
married; he must have got his income from his wife, for
it is not customary even for the elder sons of peers
to have an income of $300,000 a year.—Mrs. Dr.
Mary Walker now wants to be made a Consul, and
ex-Senator Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, to be a Circuit
Judge. Mrs. Colonel Colt's income is $400,000 per
annum.—Prof. Louis Agassiz has accepted the invitation
of the Boston Society of Natural History to deliver an ad-
dress on the centennial anniversary of Humboldt, Sept. 14.
A Santo Fe despatch states that after a stormy session the
Democratic Convention nominated Recente Romero for
Delegate to Congress from New Mexico.—Professor J. D.
Whitney, of the Harvard Scientific School, has been visit-
ing the Lake Superior mining region with a party of 14
students, and is now among the mines of Colorado.—The
Hon. E. M'Pherson was to sail for Europe on the 28th July
for the benefit of his health, and ArchLishop M'Closkey on
the 7th Aug. to attend the (Ecumenical Council at Rome.—
Among the fashionable visitors at the Fifth-avenue Ho-
tel, New York, is the well-known Chinese emigration
agent Koopmanshop.—Miss Kate Field is ono of a party
of 20 who are visiting the Adirondacks with the Rev. W.
11. H. Murray.—•A reconciliation has been effected between
Mr. Thurlow Weed and ex-President Fillmore.—T he Hon.
Henry T. Blow, Minister to Brazil, sailed in the steam-
ship Merrimac July 23.—The Hon. T. C. Theaker, late
Commissioner of Patents, has obtained a patent on a rail-
road sleeping chair of his own invention, which ho will
soon introduce into general use. It is said to be a complete
arrangement for the comfort of railway passengers.—
A convention of American philologists was to be held in
Poughkeepsie, beginning on the 27th July, and continu-
ing several days. The names of nearly all the leaders of
education in America appe ir in the list of the Committee
on Organization.—Robert Toombs is practising law in
Georgia.—Bonner has offered $30,000 for ' American
Girl," now that "Dexter," considered the fastest trotter in
the S tates,has been withdrawn.—Commodore J. W. Living-
ston, of the United States Havy, arrived at Plymouth last
Saturday in the Allenmania.—The following New York
artists have started on their holiday :—De Haas has gone
to Lake Mohouk, and Hows to the Adirondacks ; J. D.
Barrow is at Skaneatles Lake; E. W. Hall and J. A,
Parker, junr., at the Catskills ; John Williamson and
David Johnson aro sketching on the banks of the
Hudson ; Jervis M'lntoe is spending the season
at his country home at Rondout. Captain Shaw,
the chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, leaves
London, for New York, to-day, to inspect the new
fire establishment recently formed in that city, as also
those in Canada.—A subscription has been started in Bos-
ton to secure a colossal bust of Henry W. Longfellow, by
Miss Edmonia Lowis, in {tome, for Harvard University.—
Captain General do Rodas and General Butler are said to
bear a remarkable resemblance to each other.—A woman
in New Orleans was arrestod for throwing a pail of boil-
ing water over a man. ller defence was that she mistook
him for her husband.—Professor S. F. B. Morse lately met
with a serious accident at his home iu Poughkeepsie—a
fall, which caused a compound fracture of the leg. —.A
letter has been received at Toronto from Rome, urging
the formation of another corps of Zouaves for the Papal
service.—Admiral Hoff is expected home early in August,
and Admiral Poor will succeed him at once.—Horace
Greeley was thrown out of his carriage at Long Branch
in consequence of his horses taking fright and running
away, but he did not sustain any serious injury.—Pro-
fessor Roswell D. Hitchcock, of Union Theological
Seminary, has been elected a trustee of Amherst College,
in place of the late Rev. Dr. Vaill, of Palmer, Mass.—
Conductor Bangs, of the Vermont and Massachusetts, has
run on that road 17 years.--A few friends of the late Ball
Hughes, the sculptor, recently presented his widow with
$35,000 in Government Bonds, at her residence in Dor-
chester, Mass.—Governor Stearns, of New Hampshire, has
appointed the following gentlemen as the members of his
staff, with the rank of colonel. Mason W. Tappan, of
Bradford, chief of staff; E. A. Straw, of Manchester;
Samuel M. Wheeler, of _Dover ; Charles IL Bell, of Exe-
ter ; F. A. Faulkner, of Keene ; L. B. Hoskins, of Lyman.
Ex- Governor English is about to build a five-story iron-
front building on Orange-street, New Haven. It will
have a front of 21 feet and a depth of 45, and will cost
$25,000. The First National Bank will occupy the first
floor.—Rev. Dr. Holman, of Milltown, Connecticut, who
combines the practice of theology with that of physic, an-
nounced from his pulpit a few Sundays since that his
medical services could be obtained at any hour by those
in need of them.—lt is said that Madame Anna Bishop
intends to retire into private life in the United States.—
The American Roman Catholic bishops are now ordering
in Lyons the robes and head-gear to be worn at the Pope's
Grand Council, September 25. The cope is made of lama
d'or or lama d'argent, and casts from $4O to $6O in Lyons.
The cappa magna costs the same amount without furs, but
$l2O if trimmed with ermine. The Archbishop of Lyons
kindly offered his cope and cappa as patterns.

DECIMAL COINAGE AND THE METRIC SYSTEM.—
The second report of the Standards Commission published
yesterday states that in the unanimous opinion of the Com-
missioners the time has now arrived when the law should
provide, and facilities be afforded by the Government, for
the introduction and use of metric weights and measures
in the United Kingdom. For this object metric standards,
accurately verified in relation to the primary metric stan-
dards at Paris, and deposited in the Standards Department
of the Board of Trade, should be legalised; and verified
copies of the official metric standards should be provided
by the local authorities for inspectors of such districts as
may require them. The Commissioners think that the
French nomenclature, as well as decimal scale of the
metric system, should be introduced in this country, but
they are of opinion that the general introduction of the
metric system should be permissive only, and not made
compulsory by law after any period to be now specified,
so far as relates to the use of metric weights and measures
for weighing and measuring goods for sale or conveyance.
Considering that during the concurrent use of the metric
and imperial system, it will be expedient to prevent as far
as possible imperial and metric weights and measures from
being accidentally or fraudulently substituted for each
other, the Commissioners are of opinion that authoritative
regulations should be established under which each series
may be readily and easily distinguished, by the adoption
of conspicuous distinctive forms or marks for the several
weights and measures, and by such other modes as may
be determined upon after due inquiry. It is thought ex-
pedient that Customs duties should be allowed to be levied
by metric weight and measure,as well as by imperialweight
and measure ; that the use of the metric system, concur-
rentlywith the imperial system, should be adopted by other
public departments, especially the Post Office, and in the
publication of the statistics of the Board of Trade,
as well as for the admeasuremont and registration of the
tonnage of shipping. As to decimal coinage the Com-
missioners say that, eve❑ if the difficulties of establishing
an international unit of coinage cannot be at present over-
come, vet the decimalisation of our system of coinage,
which is in the power of the Government, would be very
useful to the public..
News from Baltimore, July 19, states that Chas.
the lion tamer, travelling with Thayer's Mena-
gerie, was actually eaten up by the lions on Friday, July
IG, in a small town in Michigan. Ile is said to have been
struck on the shoulder by the same lion that so nearly
killed him at Rochester, knocked down, and the others at
once sprang on him, and before they could be beaten off
had torn him to pieces and devoured the greater portion
of his body.

I)uNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta-
tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co ,
Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings,Strand, London, W,C.—[Ad
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