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"[JAE SUN, LON tiON, FRIDAY EVENING, ocroßEa 11, 1867

i=k4T orr ING IMP 0 SSI BLE.—The greatest and
most usetul invention of tho day, AQUA 4AIARILLLA..
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93,
151Ter Thames-street, Perfumers to her Idajesty, respect-
fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluff/, which
gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no
welter itt wbat age. The Aqua Amarelia has none of the
prapmqieg of dyes ;
.It, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
syst,7a, and when tile hair la once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61. Tebtimontais from artistes
of the ki,zhest order, cud from individuals of undoubted re-
speatability, mt.), be seen on appt;eatien. Idegsrs. John
Gomell and Co. salve teen appointeri Vosituae:s to Iva. Royal
HigkeesstheYrinoose of Wales.

01-1 N GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY.
TOOTH. PA.STIG is greatly superior. to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant tragranoe to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.—Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames-street, London.

EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE,

PARIS, 1867.

WHEELER AND WILSON,'

139, REGENT-STREET, AND 43, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCHYARD,
AWARDED,
OVER EIGHTY-TWO COMPETITORS,
THE HIGHEST PREMIUM,

A GOLD MEDAL,
For the Perfection of
SEWING MACHINES
and

BUTTON-HOLE MACHINES,
THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL FOR THIS BRANCH

OF MANUFACTURE.

THE GREAT CENTENARY AGRICULTURAL
SHOW, MANCHESTER, AUGUST, 1867.

T"E " SINGER" MANUFACTURING
COMPANY received the Highest Prize, TWO
SILVER MEDALS, for the excellence and perfection of
their New Family Sewing Machine and Button-hole
Machine.

111 HE "SINGER" NEW FAMILY MACHINE
is fitted with a new Patent Tuck Marker, which
GAUGES and MARKS each succeeding tuck while
sewing, a most valuable accessory, not to be had with
any other Machine.

THE " SINGER" NEW FAMILY SEWING
MACHINES aro the most complete, with all acces-
sories for the family, seamstress, manufacturers of shirt
collars, shirts, cloaks, mantles, children's clothing, caps,
corsets, linen and silk goods, umbrellas, parasols, &c.
Catalogues and Samples of Work post free.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
147, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.

It is so tempting 'to secure adherents by means of
public bounties, easy to find it necessary to in-
crease the pay ments to members, that the ugly
word " retren ehment " is not likely to obtain a
hearing. The -warning voice of the Secretary to the
Treasury is occasionally raised, and a good deal of
uneasiness is felt, but matters go on very much the
same when tl to impression dies out. If the Demo-
crats will use their opportunity wisely—if they will
endeavour to restore internal harmony to the coun-
try instead of fostering j party bitterness, and
consider the interests of trade and commerce be-
fore their personal aggrandisement or political
vanity, much may be done before the country gets
thoroughly disorganised. If confidence and security
could be restored to the white people of the South,
if capital could be invested in its fertile soil, a stimu-
lus would be given to the industry and the energy
of the whole country. It is absurd to keep up the
form of suppressing rebellion when there is no re-
sistance to the Federal Government. General LEE
has long since retired into dignified private life.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is on parole. Only the other
day General BEAUREGARD, the hero of Charles-
ton, declared bis adherence to the Washington
authority, and his enforced surrender of all
the theories about State rights. The people have
submitted with wonderful patience to events which
they could not alter. No doubt the change was
galling and irksome at first, but the irritation would
have long since died out had it not been industri-
ously kept alive by the efforts of the Radicals. But
time works great changes in public feeling, and the
North as well as the South has been growing wiser
in all these years. Let us hope that a change in the
balance of parties may lead to a more just and
patriotic use of political power on both sides.

Notwithstanding the promises (or threat ?) of an
autumnal session, our M.P.'s are not relaxing their
energies in the provinces. It is evident from their
speeches that the fights so often fought over during
the last few sessions remain still drawn battles, and
it is curious to compare the different aspects which
the very same measures assume when viewed
through different mediums. Thus the members for
South Warwickshire are delighting themselves and
their hearers with the reflection that " the legis-
lation of the past session has been productive of
great and solid good to the country, that the vexed
question of Reform has been settled for some years,
and satisfaction given to the country ;" while the
Hon. G. DESMAN is declaring the very same even-
ing, in another part of the country, that " the
Reform Bill is imperfect and reactionary," and it
behoved all true Liberals not to relax their efforts
till they had got a bill which would really do that
which the present bill only pretended to do. So
much for difference of opinion; but it is encourag-
ing to find that in questions of national interest
with which party feelings are less mixed up there is
more unity. All parties agree that something must
be done for the education of the poorer classes,
and we may hope, that now the troublesome ques-
tion of Representative Reform is at least partially
settled, we may in the course of another session see
the introduction of a measure which shall place the
national education on a broad and satisfactory
basis.

The Hon. Colonel LINDSAY has made some inte-
resting remarks on the Volunteer Service, at the
Maidenhead Agricultural Banquet. He said that
he considered it no less an honour to endorse the
sentiments which some of the first statesmen of the
country had expressed in favour of the Volunteers
as it was to represent the British Army on
public occasions. It was, indeed, a happy
day for England, when in the spirit of
defence, not defiance, she locked forth.
and contemplated the unprotected state of her
shores. As Colonel LINDSAY truly said, we have
created for the country a valuable institution,
which is the pride of England and the envy of
Europe. The Volunteer service is a grand fact,
and one that is not likely to drift into a fiction, or
into a thing that is past; it is full of vitality, and
will endure to the end. The moral force of the Vo-
lunteers is what constitutes their strength, and
what forms their chief advantage. It is impossible
to overrate the influence which the establish-
ment of the Volunteers, and their subsequent
success has had upon foreign nations ; and it was
not begun any too soon, for the aspect of the Con-
tinent was becoming anything but satisfactory
with one thing and another. The practice of the
Volunteer service has been of use in many ways,
and it may be observed that it has revived the old
pastime of our country, shooting at a mark, sub-
stituting as it is but here " the rifle of 1867 for the
crass-bow of the olden time." Colonel LINDSAY
urged upon his hearers the importance of having
an increased maintaining grant for the Volunteer
service, or else he said the consequences might be
serious. It would be well no doubt if this were
done, and we hope the House of Commons will
take the matter into consideration next year, for
the subject is one of great importance and interest,
and must not be sacrificed to petty notions of
economy that had better be gratified in some other
way. It is interesting to dwell upon this topic,
and all who rightly estimate the valuable
services already rendered to the land by the Volun-
teers will trust that Colonel LINDSAY'S concluding
expressions may be realised, and that "the Volunteer
service may be rendered as permanent and as
secure as the shores which they have declared to
defend."

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The latest and most authentic news received from
Rome is contained in a despatch, dated October 8,
evening, which says that for the two days pre-
viously nothing had occurred worth notice except
an engagement without importance at Montelibieti,
in which the Pontifical troops obtained the ad-
vantage.

There is an article in the Moniteur relative to the
state of affairs in Italy, which must command at-
tention. That paper says :—" The Italian Govern-
ment continues to adopt the measures calculated to
discourage anarchical passions, and to cause the
authority of the law to be respected. Garibaldi is
watched at Caprera by the ships of war, and num-
bers of troops, actuated by the best spirit, are
stationed on the Pontifical frontier. A few hun-
dred agitators succeeded in invading the Roman
territory isolated and by favour of the night. They
took pessession by surprise of the small town of
Bagno::ea, in the province of Viterbo, but they were
dispersed and completely routed by a corps of Pon-
tifical Zouaves. The population, far from making
common cause with the Garibaldians, received the
troops of the Holy Father with acclamation. The
excitations engendered from without have been dis-
avowed by the public good sense, and sensible minds
appreciate with just severity the attempts not only
against the Convention of the 15th of September,
but also against all international duty, and all the
rules of individual right. There is reason to hope
that the Government of King Victor Emmanuel
will be strengthened by the late crisis. Upon all
the points of the Peninsular the attitude of the
population, the army, and the National Guard has
proved the good feeling of the country. The neces-
sity is felt of restoring calm and confidence in the
public mind, and of surrouning the dynasty and the
institutions with the respect which they merit, and
of opposing the power arrogated to itself by an in-

significant majority of forming a State within the
State.
" At Rome complete tranquillity continues to pre-
vail. The arrangement relative to the share of the
Pontifical debt has been settled between the Italian
Government and the Holy See."
The stipulation relative to the fortune of the for-
mer King of Hanover has been signed. The
chateaux of Herrenhausen and Marienbourg, as well
as the domain of Kahlenberg, are to remain the
property of King George, and Prussia is to have the
administration of the capital, the interest of which is
to be paid that Prince.
I mentioned that the death of M. Achille Fould,

formerly Minister of Finance, took place suddenly.
The following are some interesting particulars rela-

tive to his last moments. M. Fould had been re-
siding for six weeks at his chateau of Louberes,
near Tarbes. On Saturday last he invited several
friends to dinner, and they sat down to dinner at 4
o'clock. The dinner had hardly begun when M.
Fould was attacked with cold shivers, and com-
plained of violent pains in his arms and hands. At
the earnest request of Madame Fould be left the
table and went to bed. He said he wished to be
alone, the indisposition was trifling, and he felt very
sleepy. Madame Fould, therefore, left him, but at
half-past seven she went up to his room again, and
asked him how he was. He did not answer, but,
believing him to be asleep, she retired. In two
hours Madame Fould went up to the bedroom again,
and, still receiving no answer to her reiterated ques-
tions, she took her husband's hand. It was quite
cold, and the probability seems to be that M. Fould
died immediately after he got into bed, that is to

say, about half-past 4 o'clock. The remains of M
Fould will be brought to Paris, and his funeral wil'

take place with some splendour and solemnity on
Monday next.
One of the Italian papers says that Garibaldi has
addressed a very angry letter to the Minister Rat-
tazzi, repioaching him with having broken his word.
There is now in the Exhibition the most costly
and magnificent toilette table ever seen. It is in the
style of Louis the Sixteenth, and comes from the
celebrated manufactory of Christofte and Co. The
composition of this unequalled work of art is by
M. E. Reiber. The figures, Art and Nature, were
modelled by M. Gumery, the caryatides by M.
Carrier Belleuse, and the ornaments by M. J.
Chenet. The table, the upper part of which is in
Mosaic, composed of lapis lazuli of Persia and jasper
of Mont Blanc, is incrusted with silver and coloured
gold, is supported by caryatides and gilt bronze feet,
mounted with Russian stone. The mirror is sup-
ported by two columns as the receptacle for the
wax-lights, on which lean the two figures of Art
and Nature, modelled by M. Gumery, the statuary.

The various accessories of tha toilet are in silver

jewelled, and are extremely luxurious and beautiful.
The difficulty in the executicn of this wonderful
article of art and manufacture was very great, and
the time requisite to overcome the obstacles accounts
for the delay in bringing it to the Exhibition. The
successful operation of the incrustation of gold and
silver upon such hard stone may be considered as
an unparalleled triumph of art and skill. It would
be impossible to estimate too highly the perfection
with which the details have been executed, the deli-
cacy of the chasing, the eclat given by the mixture
of the colours, of the gold, red, yellow, and green,
the border of Marguerites, with silver leaves and
petals of gold, contrasted with the red basis of
jasper, form an ensemble of richness and beauty
which are really marvellous. There is nothing like
it to he seen in the Exhibition or anywhere else.
The Messrs. Christofle have brought all their
powers into operation to complete it, and
the Parisians are justly proud of it. Your
contemporaries, particularly the 7 Imes and
the illustrated London .News, have devoted
long articles to descriptions of the astonishing and
beautiful productions of Messrs. Christofle and Co.,
and the Paris papers translate these culogiums—a
fact undeniable, as evincing impartiality, and 'add-
ing to the many proofs of the impetus given to art
and manufacturing skill by the Great Exhibition.
I do not know the exact value of this toilette table,
but I believe it can hardly be estimated at much less
than £3,000 sterling. A novel spectacle has been
added to the Exhibition within the last few days.
About 50 natives of Siam have come to visit it. Most
of them belong to the army. Among these persons
are several women, and an intelligent young girl,
who now forms part of the Siamese army, in answer
to questions put to her, gave some interesting par-
ticulars. She was not born in Siam, but is French,
and is a native of Turaine. She says she is one of
the Guards of Honour of the King of Siam. Among
the troops of Siam there is one battalion exclusively
composed of women. This is the Sovereign's Guar d
of Honour, of which the girl in question forms part.
The uniform is very rich and picturesque. Tho
battalion consists of 400 women, chosen from the
strongest and most beautiful girls of Siam. They
are subjected to very severe discipline. They enter
the regiment at 13 ; at 25 they are placed in the
army of reserve. Their uniform, when on duty,
consists of a white woollen dress, embroidered with
gold, of very fine texture. It reaches to the knees.
The dress is covered with a light coat of mail and a
gilt cuirass, which protects the upper part of the
body. 'They wear a small gilt helmet. The batal-
lion is divided into four companies, composed of

100 women each, and commanded by one of them-
selves, who has the rank of captain. It is said that
quarrels are very frequent among these female bat-
talions, and a duel is the immediate result. The
duel takes place with swords. If one combatant
should fall there is a splendid funeral. The survivor
generally retires from the service for two months.
Before entering the battalion the girl takes a vow
of chastity, which is not broken unless in the case,
which often happens, that the King should take a
fancy to her for one of his legitimate wives. The
King does not choose the most beautiful, but pre-
fers the girl who displays the greatest skill in the
use of arms and military exercises.

Nearly 44,000 persons paid for admission to the
Exhibition on Sunday. Among the visitors was the
Queen of Holland, who took great interest in the
details. Her ➢iajesty expressed particular admira-
tion of the Emperor's pavilion.
A telegram has been received from Rome an-
nouncing that the Pope is seriously ill. What
foundation there may be for the report I cannot say,
but a similar report was circulated about a fortnight
ago. It is perhaps only an invention, having for
object to increase the -excitement attendant upon
the position of affairs.

The weather to-day was very stormy and dull.
A violent cold prevailed, and there was frequent
rain.

STATE OP TRADE.

BRADFORD, Oct.lo.—There is scarcely any change
in the wool trade since Monday. The borough
election now pending seems to be the all-absorbing
topic of conversation ; indeed, the event appears to
serve as a convenient pretext for abstaining from
business. Very little wool has changed hands this
morning. The purchases made are restricted to the
supply of immediate and pressing wants, which are
very small. Prices are gradually getting lower.
The same sluggishness characterises the worsted
yarn department. Spinners engaged for the home
yarn trade now and then receive a few small orders,
while those who are working on export account com-
plain loudly of the depressed condition of their
department. Business on the Continent seems to
be equally as stagnant as it is here. Under these
circumstances, quotations are in favour of the buyer.
There is really no business doing in pieces. Mer-
chants display great caution, and as it is rather too
soon to place orders for the spring trade, very little
business is doing. All departments—home, Ameri-
can, and continental—are equally flat. The work-
ing of short time has become general ; but notwith-
staniling this slackening in production, stocks
continue to increase in the hands of many manu-
facturers. Prices are very unsettled, and 4110 W a
downward tendency.

SUICIDE OF A NOBLEMAN.—The body of a man
-was found the other morning in the Bois do Boulogne,
-which has been identified as that-of the Baron do
it is judged from appayanee§ that the dMased 110.
witted suicide.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE RUSSIA.
is Queenstown.)

NEW YORK, O. 2.

General Canby has ordered the suspension of all
taxes in North and South Carolina except those im-
posed by the Federal Government.

The election at Nashville passed off quietly. The
Radical ticket was elected without opposition, the
Conservative candidates having withdrawn.
The newly elected officials were quietly installed
yesterday. The municipal authorities have ap-
plied for an injunction on the ground that the
election is illegal.
The election for the Alabama Convention com-
menced yesterday ; 3,000 negroes and 32 whites
voted at Mobile.

The Louisiana election was decided on Monday in
favour of the State Reconstruction Convention.
Great apathy was shown, the voting being mostly
by negroes.

General Grant has refused to issue artillery to
the Maryland Militia. Rumour assigns as the
reason that President Johnson intends to employ
the militia against Congress.
The New York Herald says that President John-
son has informed a friend that he will resist any
effort of Congress to suspend him during the im-
peachment trial.
General Sheridan has been enthusiastically re-
ceived at Newark, Cork, and Brooklyn. The
General's responses contain no allusion to politics.

General Logan in a, speech at Cleveland advo
cated the election of negro Congressmen.
M. Molina, the Nicaraguan Minister, was pre.
sented to the President on Monday.

The fever continues unabated at New Orleans.

General Stirling Price is dead.

The Democratic Convention of Massachusetts
met yesterday, and nominated John Quincy Adams
for Governor.

Mr. M'Culloch has ordered the issue of 3 per
cent. certificates, to redeem the compound interest
notes maturing in October and December.
Advices from Hayti to the Bth ult. announce that
the insurgents were pillaging the South coast.
Commerce was protracted.
Intelligence from Valparaiso to the 3d September
states that the Spanish fleet was again expected.
The river Madeira has been opened, so that
vessels can now go up the Amazon, and deliver
their cargoes in Bolivia direct.