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The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

THIS EVENING, THE OLD GUARD : Messrs. Sol Smith, G.
%Torrey, Mag Llewellyn. &c. ALL FOR MONEY: Miss Amy
Sedgwick. And A QUIET DAY. Miss Polly Marshall, &e.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII.

THIS EVENING, at 7, DO3IESTIO ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel-
more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, THE WILLOW COPSE:
Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs A. Stirling. G. Belmore, G. J.
Taylor, Stuart, C. H. Stephenson, Ashley; Miss Furtado, Mrs A.
Mellon, Mrs. Leigh Murray, 3l iss M. Harris.
London, England, 1869-07-12

STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES
JULY.

Kingsbury.

9
OCTOBER.

Bromley
7 I West Drayton 2l, 22

NOVEMBER.
Worcester '2, 3, 4 I Shrewsbury 15,
Harrow '), 3 Leamingtonhunt 23 Lta
Lverpool 9 10, 11, 12 I

COURSING FIXTURES.

AUGUST.

St. Albans 17

OCTOBER.
Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, 6.
Oriuosby 19, erd
Huntingdon Club.. 26, 21

YACHTING FIXTURES.
JULY.
13, 14—Royal Not them Yacht Club Regatta
15—International Regatta at Havre
15—Royal Southern Yacht Club Regatta
17—Ulster Yacht Club Regatta at Bangor
17—Prince of \Vales Yacht Club: Match from Gravesend
to Ramsgate
19—Prince Alfred Yacht Club: Channel Match, Bangor
(Belfast) to Kingston
19, 20 —Goole Regatta
20 —Sailing Barge Regatta
20—Royal Dee Yacht Club Sailing Match
21, 22—Dublin Bay Regatta
24—Prince Alfred Yacht Club: First Class Match
23 (?) —Kingstown Regatta
27, 28 —Royal Western Yacht Club and Plymouth 103,4
Regatta
30—Royal Welsh Yacht Club Regatta

AUGUST.

1, 2 —Havre Regatta
2—Temple Yacht Club : Second Match
3—Victoria Model Yacht Club : First Class Match
3,4, 5, 6—Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta
s—Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club: Regatta at Oulton
7—Cheshire Yacht Club : Third Match
9-14—Royal Victoria Yacht Club Regatta
10—Great Yarmouth Regatta
13—Shoreham Regatta
21—Clyde Yacht Club : Corinthian Match
21—Cheshire Yacht Club : Fourth Match
24, 25 —Dartmouth Regatta
28—Clyde Yacht Club : Closing Cruise
27—Torbay Royal Regatta

REGATTAS AND MATCHES TO COME.

JULY.

14—Tunbridge Regatta
14—Hartlepool Regatta
15—Bedford Amateur Regatta
16—Vesper Rowing Club: Junior Pairs, River Lea
16—Albion Rowing Club : Senior Pairs, Junior Fours,
and Sculls, River Lea
16—Phoenix Rowing Club : Junior Fours, River Lea
16—Leander Boat Club : Goolden Challenge Cup (Sculls)
17 Lurline Boating Club : Senior Fours
17—Hamburg (International) Regatta
17—Kingston Rowing Club Regatta
London, England, 1869-07-12

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.

THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
( OMP.A.NY, in anticipation of the above, beg to intimate
that on all new I. surances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time
betV,reen the date of the Order and ➢lidsummer Day next.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpol,
and
Lombard-street, London.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Important Announcement.
Increased Share of Life Profits.

ALL NEW INSURANCF.S, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to an INCREASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

JOHN H. ➢SoLAREN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

THE LOMBARD EXCHANGE . AND
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and Secretary of the Liverpool Exchange.
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in Advance.

The Room is supplied with Newspapers, both home
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London, England, 1869-07-12

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2,746 patients wore treated last month without letters of
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needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard, Picca-
dilly ; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts,
Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THE

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,

MINISTER'S
By MRS. OLIPHA►QT,

IV I F E.

Author of "Chronicles of Carlingford," "'Salem Chapel," &c.
"A powerful and vigorously Wrii ten story. The characters
are drawn with rare skill. With the exception of George Eliot
there is no female novelist of the day compared to Mrs. Oli-
phant."—Daily News.

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London, England, 1869-07-12

THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES
of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-

road.
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this Hospital.
The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to
enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those
numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so
helpless by sickness and poverty.
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street; and by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
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London, England, 1869-07-12

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

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Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico,
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company, can be had of
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London, England, 1869-07-12

NITRO-GLYCERINE.

We are likely to have legislation in respect of
nitro-glycerine. The authorities at Woolwich
have had their attention drawn to the dangerous
compound by the explosion at Carnarvon, and have
considered how the danger of using it may be
lessened. They have embodied their suggestions in
a report, which, in its turn, will probably become
drafted into a bill. While the use of nitro-glycerine
is not to be prohibited in this new measure, it is
stated that the conditions which it will impose upon
the carriage, storage, and employment are most
stringent. When it will be introduced into Parlia-
ment is not stated.

FOREIGN NOTES.

AMERICAN AID FOR THE CUBANS.

Colonel Ryan, one of the members of the Cuban Junta
who were recently arrested at New York,was rescued from
the custody of the United States Marshal by some of the
patriots. It was afterwards asserted that he had sailed
for Cuba with an expedition, and such appears to have
been really the case. A band of 700 men was assembled
at Long Island, near New York, and the whole number
were safely taken off to Cuba by a large steamer. A great
quantity of arms and ammunition were conveyed south-
wards at the same time.

The Cuban authorities are taking very rigorous measures
t) put down filibustering. Several Americans who
recantly landed at Santiago de Cuba, and fell into the
hands of the troops, were immediately executed. But, with
this exception, the news from Cuba published in the New
York papers is all in favour of the insurgents. The recent
defeats of the Spaniards have encourage) the Cuban
leaders who are determined to force the fighting. The
Herald says that the Spanish troops in the interior have
their communications with the coast cut off, and ate suf-
fering terribly from cholera, fever, and privation. The
mortality is said to be very great, and medicines and food
are scarce. " More than half of the main Spanish force
has been lost since the commencement of the war by de-
sertion or disease." Against this intelligence, however,
must b. oot them proclamation of General Caballero de
R,das, to the effect that the insurrection is on the wane.
London, England, 1869-07-12

A DIVIDED KINGDOM.

In the course of the same article there is another
serious fallacy. The John Bull asks "if England
shall allow Imperial interests to be entirely swamped
by Scotland, Wales, and Ireland ?" In the first
place the thing is impossible. If "England" is
agreed upon one point, that is, if all the English
members vote together, they would be in an over-
whelming majority (more than two to one) even
though all the Irish, Scotch, and Welsh members
voted together. But the question is really a most
improper one. It implies that England alone
has the right to discuss " Imperial" questions. Such
questions belong to the whole country, and
when they are at issue there is no England nor
Wales, nor Ireland, nor Scotland, but one united
kingdom. A remark like this is really most uncon-
stitutional, and appeals to the worst kind of
prejudices.

THE BACKSTAIRS TO THE CONTINENT.
The Spectator, in a most amusing article on the
rumoured promise of Mr. Bright that he will ask the
House of Commons to guarantee 21 per cent, upon
£2,000,000 for making the under-sea tunnel to the
Continent, parodies all the objections which that
scheme should meet with from old-fashioned Tories.
It will give the lie to our geography books: by con-
verting England from an island into a peninsula ; it
will enable the French to annex us one fine morning
without our knowing anything about it; it will bring
those nasty French wines into England more cheaply
than ever; it will make us all one with the Con-
tinent, aye, and with semi-barbarous Asia and
wholly barbarous Africa too. And all for the
sake of the cotton lords, in order that they may get
their wretched stuffs into the Continent without the
cost of transhipment. For certainly no one will
ever think of using that horrible hole. Better be
sick in the daylight than drowned in the dark. The
only possible recommendation for this absurd scheme
is
that we may perhaps entice the French army
into the tunnel and then let the sea in upon them;
repeat, in fact, the miracle which Moses wrought
upon the Egyptians.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THE WILKES BOOTH 11.0 T.

It appears that the assassin Payne, who attempted the
murder of Mr. Seward, made a discic,sure to his lawyer
which throws some light on the plot which too success
fully ended in the assassination of President Lincoln.
Payne said that the scheme originally was to carry
off President Lincoln, and deliver him to the Confede•
rates. That plan was abandoned, and then Booth pro-
posed to kill the entire Cabinet. This was actually done
in the case of the President, and very nearly accomplished
in the case of Mr. Seward, but the rest of the conspirators
loft courage, and made no attempt to do their part of the
bloody work.
London, England, 1869-07-12

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THEATRE ROYAL, II A YMARKET.
Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, THE OLD GUARD: Messrs. Sol. Smith,
G. sturray, Trafford, H. Naylor. Mag Llewellyn
After whlch, ALT. FOR MONEY: Miss Amy Sedgwiek, MI a
Maud Haydon, Miss Stephens; Messrs. G. Jordan, H. Irving
W. H. Vernon, 11. Naylor. &e.
To conclude with A QUIET FAMILY: Miss Polly Marshall,
Miss Coleman ; Messrs. W. H. Vernon and Charles Swan.
Box-office open daily.
Commence at Seven.
London, England, 1869-07-12

BELGIAN RAILWAYS

The Railway News is very severe upon the Belgian
Government for its conduct in the railway diflizulty. The
shareholders of the G reat Luxemburg Company proposed to
lease their line to the East of France Company for a
minimum payment of .C2l ;i,OOO a year, which would return
a dividend of to 5 per cent. on the three millions of
bonds, and of 3 per cent. on the two millions of stock.
Just as tle arrangement was in progress the Belgian
Government passed a measure giving them power to stop
such leases, and by this ex post facto legislation a coin
pany in which Enxlith shareholders were largely inte-
rested was rraterially injured. Their line was at
first offered to the Belgian Government, but the
Ministry would nei.ther take it themselves, nor allow tl.e
French company to take it. This is the complaint of the
Railway News ; but, on the other hand, it is argued that
the jealousy of the weak State at the project ( f
leasing a Belgian line to a French Company is n( t
unnatural. Moreover, though the arrangement actually
come to seems to be involved in great obscurity, yet it is
generally understood to imply such an international
system of traffic as must prove advantageous to the Grand
Luxemburg.
London, England, 1869-07-12

BRLGIAN RAILWAYS.

The Railway News is very severe upon the Belgian
Government for its conduct in the railway difficulty. The
shareholders of the Great Luxemburg Company proposed to
lease their line to the .mast of France Company for a
minimum payment of £21i1,000 a year, which would return
a dividend of 41) to 5 per cent. on the three millions Gf
bonds, and of 3 per cent. on the two millions of stock.
Just as tl.e arrangement was in progress the Belgian
Government passed a measure giving them power to stop
such leases, and by this ex post facto legislation a corn
pany in which Enizli.h shareholders were largely inte-
rested was materially injured. Their line was at
first offered to the Belgian Government, but the
Ministry would neither take it themselves, nor allow tl.e
French company to take it. This is the complaint of the
Railway News ; but, on the other hand, it is argued that
the jealousy of the weak State at the project cf
leasing a Belgian line to a French Company is act
unnatural. Moreover, though the arrangement actually
come to seems to be involved in great obscurity, yet it is
generally understood to imply such an international
system of traffic as must prove advantageous to the Grand
Luxemburg.
London, England, 1869-07-12

rHEATRE ROYAL, AIELPIII..
1 Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
THIS EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel-
more and Mrs. Leigh Murray.
At S o'clock, THE WILLOW COPSE: 51r. Benjamin Web
ster: Messrs. A. Stirling, G. Belmore. J. G. Taylor, Stuart, C.
Stephenson, Ashley: Miss Furtado, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. L.
Murray, Miss M. Harris.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY -12, 1869.

tza, iri pite oE tine rat tnt o-ner clergymen snp-
ported by it have taken a much stronger part against
Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Rains has taken for him.
The only thing left to Mr. Mains to do is to
protest. Is there no Liberal member of the society
who will get this matter sifted ?

91.6::TharIborougn-streeT ronce-eonrr nor It-sa
so. They are about to call a general meeting of the
members to take the matter into consideration.

THE 44 SPENDING DIPARTMENTS."

The Broad Arrow states that the Secretary for
War has decided on postponing all further proceed-
ings with reference to Lord Northbrook's committee
on War Office Reorganisation till after Christmas.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, after having made
himself fully acquainted with the details of the
control scheme, has given his consent to the
arrangements being completed, provided the Con-
trollers have no voice regarding " finance." The
Lords of the Treasury insist that a sufficient check
and audit shall be established independently of the
Horse Guards or the War Office.
It is stated that owing to theimprovements introduced
by Mr. Baxter in the purchasing department of the
Admiralty, there will probably be a further reduction
of one million in the Navy Estimates next year.
It is rumoured that the Indian Navy will be re-
vived, at least in part. The position of affairs in
Persian waters is so unsatisfactory that it is thought
necessary, at all events by old Indian naval officers,
to increase our strength there. The Duke of Argyll
is believed to be in communication with the Admi-
ralty upon the subject. Mr. Alison, our Minister to
the Court of Teheran, is now in Landon, and his
presence there has revived the rumour that British
officers are employed in drilling and officering the
Shah's army.

of the persowil and irresponsible rule of tine Emperor,
was the subject of conversation at the State Ball on
Thursday. The Emperor expressed himself favourable to
the principle, but appeared indignsed to make any imme•
diate cor cessions. Time, he said, would bring the measure.
The. Sp, , S turfluy Review, and Times agree not only
that this reform is desirable, but that the Emperor will find
himself compelled to give way. The Saturday Review notes
that the Emperor may refuse to allow this question to be
di e,uv.e.l. but such refusal would amount to an admission
that he was afraid to meet the Chamber which he himself
has created. The Spectator thinks it not improbable that
the Emperor may try the experiment of a Free Executive
and a Free Legislature—that is, bring the Constitution in
aocordane with that uf the United States, allowing the
Legislature t..) propose measures, but retaining the power
of veto.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT
INSTITUTION.
President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Treasurers—The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., and
Col. W. F. Grant.
DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly
solicited, to enable the Board to meet the greatly increased
expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults are received
at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon.
Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall.
CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary
Office, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly.
London, England, 1869-07-12

NEW DISCOVERY IN SERUSALEM.

Those who have watched with interest the progress
of the Jerusalem explorations will be glad to read
the account just sent over by Lieutenant Warren.
Ile tells us that the explorers have succeeded id
driving a gallery up to the great block of masonry
forming the north-east angle of the Hamm wall, and
have found it to be built of great bevelled stones aticast
sixty feet below the surface. 'Through a slit in the
wall they penetrated into a passage, and, further on,
an aqueduct. There is little doubt, he things that
this is an ancient. over;!ow from the Birket Israil,
and he finds matter for surprise in the
reflection that while there is such a dearth
of running water in Jerusalem, the Birket
Israil has, probably within our era, been full
up to a certain point and flowing over. Lieutenant
Warren states that if the excavations aro to con-
tinue, sufficient funds must be forthcoming to com-
plete the work, and he adds that it will be a great
mistake to stop now for want of funds—a conclusion
in which most persons will agree with him.
London, England, 1869-07-12

HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood,
"in faithfal accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON

Rev. J. W. Ayre
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield
Eon. and Rev. F. Byng '
Rev. R. G. Baker

Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Herbert, M.P.
Rey. J. E. Kempe
Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys

Rev. S. Brooke
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Rev. A. Martineau

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Rev. J. E. Cox
Octavius Coope, Esq.
Arthur Currie, Esq.
Rev. J. Connell
Rev. C. W. Purse

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Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. J. Moorhouse
J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. Canon Nepean
Rev. E. Parry
John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Roy. G. F. Prescott
pigou_

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J. S. Gilliat, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hussey
H G Heald, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer
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London, England, 1869-07-12

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1E69

aid, In spite of the fact tnat otner clergymen sup-
ported by it have taken a much stronger part against
Mr. Gladstone than Mr. Hairs has taken for him.
The only thing left to Mr. Hairs to do is to
protest. Is there no Liberal member of the society
who will get this matter sifted ?

story in the Marlborough-street route-copra nov lean
so. They are about to call a general meeting of the
members to take the matter into consideration.

THE " SPENDING DTPARTMENTS."

The Broad Arrow states that the Secretary for
War has decided on postponing all further proceed-
ings with reference to Lord Northbrook's committee
on War Office .Reorganisation till after Christmas.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, after having made
himself fully acquainted with the details of the
control scheme, has given his consent to the
arrangements being completed, provided the Con-
trollers have no voice regarding " finance." The
Lords of the Treasury insist that a sufficient check
and audit shall be established independently of the
Horse Guards or the War Office. _ _ .

—.—
It is stated that owing totheimprovements introduced
by Mr. Baxter in the purchasing department of the
Admiralty, there will probably be a further reduction
of one million in the Navy Estimates next year.
It is rumoured that the Indian Navy will be re-
vived, at least in part. The position of affairs in
Persian waters is so unsatisfactory that it is thought
necessary, at all events by old Indian naval officers,
to increase our strength there. The Dube of Argyll
is believed to be in communication with ihe Admi-
ralty upon the sub:,cet. Mr. Alison, our Moister to
the Court of Teheran, is now in London, and his
presence there has revived the rumour that British
officers are employed in drilling and officering the
Shah's army.

of the personal and irresponsible rule of the Emperor,
was the subject of conversation at the State Ball on
Thursday. The Emperor expressed himself favourable to
the principle, but appeared indisposed to make any imme-
diate concession!. Time, he said; would bring the measure.
The Sp, , S tturday Review, and Times agree not only
that this reform is desirable, but that the. Emperor will find
himself compelled to give ways The Saturday Review notes
that the Emperor may refuse to allow this question to be
discussed, but such refusal would amount to an admission
that he was afraid to meet the Chamber which he himself
bee created. The Spectator thinks it not improbable that
the Emperor may try the experiment of a Free Executive
and a Free Legislature—that is, bring the Constitution in
aoconlance with that of the United States, allowing the
Le.c;islAturs to propose measures, but retaining the power
of veto.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THE

Author of "Chronicles of Carliugford," "'Salem Chapel," &c.
"A powerful and vigorously wri'ten story. The characters
are drawn with rare skill. With the exception of George Eliot
there is no female novelist of the day compared to Mrs. 011-
phant."—Daily News.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THE EACESTAIES TO THE CONTINENT.

The Spectator, in a most amusing article on the
rumoured promise of Mr. Bright that he will ask the
House of Commons to guarantee 21 per cent, upon
£2,000,000 for making the under-sea tunnel to the
Continent, parodies all the objections which that
scheme should meet with from old-fashioned Tories.
It will give the lie to our geography books; by con-
verting England from an island into a peninsula.; it
will enable the French to annex us one fine morning
without our knowing anything about it; it will bring
those nasty French wines into England more cheaply
than ever; it will make us all one with the Con-
tinent, aye, and with semi-barbarous Asia and
wholly barbarous Africa too. And all for the
sake of the cotton lords, in order that they may get
their wretched stuffs into the Continent without the
cost of transhipment. For certainly no one will
ever think of using that horrible hole. Better be
sick in the daylight than drowned in the dark. The
.only possible recommendation for this absurd scheme
Is that we may perhaps entice the French army
into the tunnel and then let the sea in upon them;
repeat, in fact, the miracle which Moses wrought
upon the Egyptians.
London, England, 1869-07-12

4R7' AND LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr. Tennyson is at present staying in Paris, negotia-
ting with Gustave Dort:: fcr the further illustration of his
works. —Mdlle. Christine Nilsson has declined an offer to
sing in her native country, pleading that she is engaged for
two years from the present date. 111dlle. Nilsson goes to
the United States in the autumn of next year, returning
to England for the season of 1571.--Another new theatre
is about to be erected in London, on a site in the Strand.
Miss Litton, of the Gaiety and Princess's Theatres, will
undertake the management.--The Emperor's Prize of £BOO
was awarded at the three-monthly meeting of the French
Institute to M. Henri Martin, for his "History of France."—
The Antiquarian Society of Scotland have just received
an interesting donation to their museum. The relics con-
sist of the sea-chest and carved cocoa-nut cup which were
the property of Alexander Selkirk, the prototype of Robin-
son Crusoe. These were with him in his solitary residence
on Juan Fernandez.—The International Exhibition of
Works of Art at Munich will probably be opened on the
20th July. Almost all countries will be represented in it.
Austria sends 327, Italy 225, Belgium 95, Paris GO, Hol-
land 53, Switzerland and England 19 objects for exhibition,
while America, Sweden, Denmark, and Russia each send
several pictures. —Air. H. F. Chorley is occupied with his
promised life of Rossini.
London, England, 1869-07-12

yIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT
—Paris Exhibition, 1887, Two Gold Medals.—PavreFx
1888, The Gold Medal.—Only sort warranted correct
and genuine by Baron Liebig, the Inventor.—" A sucoestrand
boon."—Medical Press and Circular. One Pint of deliti-ious beef
tea for 21(1.. Which costs Is. if made from fresh meat. Cheapest
and finest flavoured" stock:" for soups, &c.
CAUTlON.—Require BARON LIEBIG'S signature upon every
jar.. Sold by all Italian warehousemen, grocers, chemists, and
ship's store dealers.
London, England, 1869-07-12

MARKE7 S-2 IRS DAY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
July 12.—Sales probably 12,000 bales. The mPrkot
steady.

LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—MRS. S. A.
ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to
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falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth
it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes al
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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1869.

A political juncture of considerable importance
seems to have arrived by an odd coincidence on this
Jay, Monday, the 12th of July, 18G9, for England,
and France, and Ireland simultaneously. In Ireland,
to day has been looked forward to, especially in the
North, with some degree of eagerness and solicitude
as the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne—when
the unfurling of the Orange flag is generally, in the
eyes of every Wearer of the Green, as irritating, as
maddening, one might say, as the flutter of the red
cloak of a toreador in the eyes of a bull in a Spanish
amphitheatre. In England the turn-point of the
political crisis of the hour is marked on the papers
of the House of Lords for this evening, by the
order of the day for the Third Reading of the
Irish Church Bill, and the notification immediately
appended to it by the Viscount CLANCARTY, that he
will move instead that the thin] reading of the Bill
shall be taken this day three months or, in plainer
words, of course, that the Peers shall be asked to
stultify themselves after all their discussions, after
all their divisions, after all their amendments, by re-
jecting altogether the very measure they have been,
during these last few weeks, so elaborately tinkering.
En France the political crisis is of a yet more formid•
able character--expectation being aroused in reg ►rd
to this particular sitting of the Llgislative Chamber
of to-day by reason of its being understood as not
by any means improbable that an Imperial manifesto
may be read by M. ROUHEIt announcing the determi-
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NITRO-GLYCERINE.

We are likely to have legislation in respect of
nitro-glycerine. The authorities at Woolwich
have had their attention drawn to the dangerous
compound by the explosion at Carnarvon, and have
considered how the danger of using it may be
lessened. They have embodied their suggestions in
a report, which, in its turn, will probably become
drafted into a bill. While the use of nitro-glycerine
is not to be prohibited in this new measure, it is
stated that the conditions which it will impose upon
the carriage, storage, and employment are most
stringent. When it will be introduced into Parlia-
ment is not stated.

FOREIGN NOTES.

AMERICAN AID FOR THE CUBANS.

Colonel Ityan, one of the members of the Cuban Junta
%rho were recently arrested at New York,was rescued from
the custody of the United States Marshal by some of the
patriots. It was afterwards asserted that he had sailed
for Cuba with an expedition, and such appears to have
been really the case. A band of 700 men was assembled
at Long Island, near New York, and the whole number
were safely taken off to Cuba by a large steamer. A great
quantity of arms and ammunition were conveyed south•
wards at the same time.

The Cuban authorities are taking very rigorous measures
t) put down filibustering. Several Americans who
rcc mtly landed at Santiago do Cuba, and fell into the
hands of the troop, were immediately executed. But, with
this exception, the news from Cuba published in the New
York papers is all in favour of the insurgents. The recent
defeats of the Spaniards have encourage 1 the Cuban
leaders, who are determined to force the fighting. The
Herald says that the Spanish troops in the interior have
their communications with the coast cut off, and are suf-
fering terribly from cholera, fever, and privation. Tl:e
mortality is said to be very great, and medicines and food
are scarce. " More than half of the main Spanish force
has been lost since the commencement of the war by de-
sertion or disease." Against this intelligence, however,
must be set the proclamation of General Caballer, de
11, Alas, to the effect that the insurrection is on the wane.

Tllll NF;ROES IN VIIMINI.t.

It is urnloul)tedly a remarkable fact that at the recent
elec'uion in Virginia the negroes suported the Democrats,
who opposed their emancipation and enfranchisement.
The blncks have never deserted the Republicans before.
But it appears that they took care to make a ro,l
bargain for themselves. They voted fur the Democrats
only on a solemnpromise that all the recent laws infavour of
negro freedom and negro suffrage should be preserved intact.
Ti.ey likewise, it appears, secured a private promise of
sf,f ty from the armed bands which now threaten them, and
considering that the negroes are in a minority in the " Old
Dominion," they certainly acted sagely in making peace
ivlt.h the predominant party on these substantial ternv.
London, England, 1869-07-12

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London, England, 1869-07-12

Just published, price Is. Gd., by post is. Sd., the Second Edition,
with Addenda, containing additional Facts anti Cases, in illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks,
1.0 I.IITELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
A. QI7ACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."

London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, end o thor
journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with
this edition.
London, England, 1869-07-12

THE FRENCH ATLA NTIC CABLE,

The success of the French Atlantic Cable may now be
taken as accomplished. What now remains to be done is
a mere matter of detail, about the successful completion
of v'hich it is not too much to say that no possible
doubt exists ; and no more anxiety is felt about it
than there would be about laying a line between
Dover and Calais. The French Atlantic Cable
is virtually laid ; all its deep-sea dangers are
past. The line is in an unexampled condition
in all its tests, and all that is wanting to complete it is
to make the connection between St. Pierre and Boston
over very shallow water. A matter which tends to give
confidence is the perfect punctuality and regularity with
which the Great Eastern has done her work throughout.
With a chart of the Atlantic it has been quite easy to
mark at any hour of the day or night within a mile the
spot she was on, or to mark within a mile where she would
be in the next twenty-four hours. The course laid down
for her has never been appreciably deviated from, and the
amount of slack, calculated at 14 per cent., has been
expended almost to a mile. It wan expected that on
Thursday and Friday, whatever the weather, the great
ship would begin to roll very heavily, and ou Thursday
and Friday the reflecting galvanometer at Minot' shewed
that in this as in other matters she was doing exactly what
was expected and predicted of her. The Great Eastern
will probably remain at St. Pierre till the end
of this week to put on the paddle floats which
were removed before she started, and to put
out those she has in now to the full circum-
ference of the wheels. Then, having transhipped
all the staff of engineers and electricians on board
the William Cory, the great ship returns at once to
England, where she is expected at the end of this month,
to take in the Anglo-Indian Cable. In the meantime the
staff, with the William Cory, will proceed to lay about
IG4 miles of cable from St. Pierre towards Boston. In
this journey she will be accompanied by the Scanderia
and the Chiltern. This length of cable will take the
William Cory over water varying in depth from 150 to
200 or 250 fathoms, past Cape Breton to the Cut of Canso.
The staff will then again be transferred to the Scan-
deria, which will lay 450 more miles of intermediate
line of extra thickness. This will stretch from the
Gut of Canso to the edge of the Brown Bank, south of
Cape Table, and will be laid in water of not less titan 100
fathoms ; the Chiltern then in turn takes the staff and
lays the remainder from Brown Bank to Boston, a dis-
tance of about 150 miles, and this completes the St. Pierre
and Boston section, and then all is done. Everything is
expected to be completed by the end of this month, after
which the whole line must remain in perfect order for
thirty-one days before it is formally taken over by the
French Company, which then becomes solely responsible
for its working and maintenance.
London, England, 1869-07-12

ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE
INSURANCES.

THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE
OMPANY, in antic!pation of the above, beg to intimate
that on all new It surances now effected there will only be
payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time
between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverp3ol,
and
Lombard-street, London.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.

Important Announcement.
Increased Share of Life Profits.

ALL NEW INSURANCES, with Participation, EFFECTED
AFTER IST JANUARY, I.BGS, will become entitled to an INCREASED
SHARE OF THE PROFITS, in accordance with the Resolution
passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

JOHN H. MeLATI,F,N, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
London, England, 1869-07-12

CRIME IN IRELAND.

Ireland is hardly a crime-producing country.
Were it not for political viola-Ice, the judges would
have little besides civil business to attend to. There
are just now four judges who have had to congratu-
late four several assize districts on the small amount
of business which they had brought forth. In Mayo
there are only thirteen cases ; at Lon ford only three,
and one of these was a remanet from the last
assizes ; the county Monaghan presents only four—
thirteen offences being the total number reported to
the police since the judges last visited the county;
and at Limerick the judge had the white gloves
presented to him. Some of their lordships could not
help deploring that exterior exciting influences took
from Ireland the reputation she deserved..
London, England, 1869-07-12

NITRO-GLYCERINE.

We are likely to have legislation in respect of
nitro-glycerine. The authorities at Woolwich
have had their attention drawn to the dangerous
compound by the explosion at Carnarvon, and have
considered how the danger of using it may be
lessened. They have embodied their suggestions in
a report, which, in its turn, will probably become
drafted into a bill. While the use of nitro-glycerine
is not to be prohibited in this new measure, it is
stated that the conditions which it will impose upon
the carriage, storage, and employment are most
stringent. When it will be introduced into Parlia-
'milt is not stated.

FOREIGN NOTES.

AMERICAN AID FOR THE CUBANS.

Colonel ltyan, one of the members of the Cuban .Tunta
who were recently arrested at New York,was rescued from
the custody of the United States Marshal by some of the
patriots. It was afterwards asserted that he had sailed
for Cuba with an expedition, and such appears to have
been really the case. A band of 700 men was assembled
at Long Island, near New York, and the whole number
were safely taken off to Cuba by a large steamer. A great
quantity of arms and ammunition wore conveyed south-
wards at the same time.

The Cuban authorities are taking very rigorous measures
t ) put down filibustering. Several Americans who
recently landed at Santiago de Cuba, and fell into the
hands of the troop,, were immediately executed. But, with
this exception, the news from Cuba published in the New
York papers is all in favour of the insurgents. The recent
defeats of the Spaniards have encouragel the Cuban
leaders, who are determined to force the fighting. The
Herald says that the Spanish troops in the interior hare
their communications with the coast cut off, and are suf-
fering terribly from cholera, fever, and privation. The
mortality is said to be very great, and medicines and food
are scarce. " Mors than half of the main Spanish force
has been lost sinco the commencement of the war by de-
sertion or 4atve,P Against this intelligence, however,
must be set the proclamation of General Caballero de
It)da,s, to the effect that the insurrection is on the wane.
London, England, 1869-07-12

MODEL LEGISLATION.

It is refreshing to turn from the wearily slow progress
of great reforms in the British Legislature to the brisk
style of transacting business in semi•barbaric lands. But
a few days ago the Parliament of Servia was opened and
immediately went to work upon a new Constitution.
This formidable measure, involving a radical change iu
the organisation of the country, consisted of 133 articles,
and prescribed amongst other trifles the equality of all
citizens before the law—thus protecting the Jews, who
have been so severely persecuted in these regions of late.
But the Servian legislators have got through it all ; it is
done with, and the Constitution is ready fur the country.
May the country prove ready for the Constitution. The
whole fob has occupied about four days.
London, England, 1869-07-12

MODEL LEGISLATIOX.

It is refreshing to turn from the wearily slow progress
of great reforms in the British Legislature to the brisk
style of transacting business in semi•barbaric lands. But
a few days ago the Parliament of Servia was opened and
immediately went to work upon a new Constitution.
This formidable measure, involving a radical change in
the organisation of the country, consisted of 133 articles,
and prescribed amongst other trifles the equality of all
citizens before the law—thus protecting the Jews, who
have been so severely persecuted in these regions of late.
But the Servian legislators have got through it all ; it is
done with, and the Constitution is ready for the country.
May the country prove ready fur the Constitution. The
whole job has occupied about four days.
London, England, 1869-07-12

7Tar/771113,

Several Conservative peers voted in the minority (77)
an Thursday night in favour of the third reading of
Earl Russell's Life Peerages Bill. Among these
were the Marquis of Salisbury, and Earls Car-
narvon, De La Warr, Stanhope (who acted as one of
the tellers), Stradbroke, and Winchilsea and Nottingham.
The Liberals who opposed the third reading were the
Earl of Radnor, and Lords Carew, Congleton, Granard,
Grinstead (Earl of Enniskillen), Monson, Stanley of
Alderley, and Trtiro. Only three members of the episco-
pal bench went into the division lobby—the Archbishop
of Canterbury and the Bishop of Chester recording their
votes in favour of the bill, and the Bishop of Gloucester
and Bristol against. The minority included the Dukes of
Devonshire and Somerset, the Marquises of Lans-
downe and Norrnanby, end Earls Grey, Granville,
St. Germans, Forteseue, De Grey, Kimberley,
and Russell. In the majority were the Dukes of Beau-
fort, Buckingham, Manchester, Northumberland, Rich-
mond, Rutland, and Wellington, the Earls of Deity and
Malmesbury, and Lords Cairns, Chelmsford, and St.
Leonards. Lord Westbury did not vote.
London, England, 1869-07-12

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