The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1867.

ROYAL BANK OF I,IPERPOOL.

A crowded meeting of the depositors of the
Royal Bank, adjourned from last week, was held
on Tuesday at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool ;
Mr. J. It. Taylor in the chair. He stated that the
deputation appointed at the last meeting waited
upon the committee of the shareholders and laid
their views, that they could not accept bills for such
long terms as 18 and 24 months, before them. They
had not received any communication direct from the
Royal Bank, and inasmuch as at the meeting on
Monday the shareholders did not propose any
shorter period he had now to move :

"That the proposition of the shareholders to give
promissory notes extending over a period of two
years be not accepted."
Mr. DEANX seconded the motion. He saw no
necessity for so long a term as two years, and,
further, it was stated at the shareholders' meeting
that the bank had 50,000 ordinary shares, and a call
of £lO on these would realise at once £500,000.
There were also 1,500 preference shares, which
would realise £15,000, and there were good debts
and property to the value of £1,200,000 against
liabilities of £1,600,000. They ought therefore to
give them not only some portion in cash at once,
but to pay them off entirely in twelve months. He
hoped they would pass the resolution.
Mr. TYRER said it was very desirable that they
should get their money in 12 months if they could,
but he strongly counselled moderation. Any un-
due pressure could only result in calamity both to
them and to the shareholders. He asked what
remedy they would have if they declined to accept
the terms offered.

Mr. DEANE—The same remedy as in the case of
Barned's Bank, where a £4O call was made at
once. The Royal offered £lO, but if it was not
sufficient they would be compelled to pay a £2O or
£3O call.

Mr. TTRER said that his experience of large calls
was anything but favourable. In the cases of the
Leeds Bank and cf Barned's Bank large calls had
ruined large numbers of shareholders, who, in small
instalments, might have paid the amount, and the
estates had suffered in proportion. A call of £4O, or
£2O, as suggested by Mr. Deane, would completely
wreck many of the shareholders of the Royal. While
he was a sufferer himself, he could not forget that
there were much greater ones. The shareholders
could scarcely be blamed for the disaster which had
befallen them. (Cheers.) Let them as depositors
show them a little sympathy, or at least considera-
tion. As to the other banks, he could get the bills
discounted.

Mr. DEANE—With your endorsement.
Mr. TYRER—Certainly. No banker would dis-
count without that, I think.
Mr. WOLFE thought the less they had to do with
the Vice-Chancellor's Court the better. He thought
they would get their money much sooner by assist-
ing the shareholders than by throwing obstacles in
their way.

Mr. RAYNES thought they would find great diffi-
culty in getting the bills discounted, if at all, and
thought that 12 months was long enough grace to
give.

Another DEPOSITOR expressed a fear that the
bank wanted to keep back funds to work the
shipping which they held, and upon which they
might lose heavily.
Mr. TYRER did not anticipate that. They would
only try to get all their shipping to this or some
other large port, where they could be sold.
Mr. CLAYPOLE and one or two others spoke in
favour of the motion, and an opinion was expressed
that the depositors ought to be represented in the
liquidation.
Mr. TutEn said that Mr. Myrtle, a large de-
positor, was already on the committee of share-
holders, and they might depend on him to look after
their interests.

Mr. M'Quie and Mr. D'Arcy spoke in favour o f
a conciliatory course of action.
Mr. KERR strongly advised the meeting not to
adopt any hostile measure. Mr. Deane seemed to
think that a call of £lO would represent the full
limit of £500,000. That could not be the case.
Many shareholders would not be able to pay at
once, and some perhaps not at all. One lady held
9,000 shares. (A voice—" 12,000") Now, on a
call of £lO she would have to pay £90,000, and in
times of difficulty and distress like these they knew
that it would be a serious task for the first com-
mercial houses in town to raise such a sum at once.
The shareholders must be allowed time to realise on
their•securities; and any attempt to hurry them
into the market at a time like this must seriously
diminish the assets.

Mr. D'ARcv said he thought they would be
premature in coming to any resolution on that day.
There was to be a conference on the morrow be-
tween the creditors and the shareholders, and he
thought they should hold themselves unpledged to
any course until they heard what the shareholders
had to say. He moved as an amendment—

" That no resolution be come to in regard to the
payment of creditors of the Royal Bank until the
result of the conference between the creditors and
the shareholders be known."

This amendment was carried with only two
dissentients, and the proceedings concluded.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13
Shareholders, depositors, and creditors of the
Royal Bank, at a meeting to-day, agreed to a
voluntary winding-up, the appointment of three
liquidators, and payment of liabilities by promissory
notes from six to twenty-four months.

The Escape of Kelly and Deasy.

The New York Sun of the 28th ult. makes the
following announcement :—" Capt. Timothy Deasy
who was arrested in Manchester, and rescued by the
Fenians of that place, arrived in this city on Sun-
day. He will be tendered a public reception on
Tuesday. Captain Deasy gives a humorous account
of his escape from Liverpool. Having packed up his
trunks with the aid of Col. Kelly, and disguised
himself so as to defy detection, he proceeded on
board the steamship City of Paris, in company with
the colonel, the latter dressed as a porter, and car-
ried the traps on his back in the most approved
fashion of the fraternity. As soon as they reached
the deck of the vessel, and passed the long line of
detectives without attracting attention, Capt. Deasy
gave Col. Kelly a shilling for his trouble, but the
assumedporter refused to accept such a small amount
for so much work, whereupon the regular porters
were called upon to act as referees, and decided
that the ill-used confrere was entitles to 18c1. at least.
Kelly was so demonstrative that the police threat-
ened to arrest him if he did not accept the shilling
and go away, which he thought it better to do after
exchanging a knowing look with his quondam em-
ployer. At Queenstown the captain put on a care-
less exterior and passed among the detectives, dis-
coursing freely about the emigrants, anti making in-
quiries generally respecting the objects of the
wretched Fenians in keeping up a hopeless crusade
against her Britannic Majesty. In the course of con-
versation, as a matter of course, the daring rescue of
Kelly and Deasy was alluded to and condemned.
One of the detectives remarked that he'd bed—d
if they would get away from him if he had them
once in his.clutches. In connection with the escape a
very interesting letter has been transmitted to the
Irish People by the man who planned the rescue.
He says that Col. Kelly and Capt. Deasy were re-
turning from a private meeting when they were
suddenly pounced on by four policemen, and dragged
off, before they could draw their revolvers and show
fight. When their arrest was made known to the
officials of the Fenian brotherhood, a vigilance com-
mittee was instantly appointed to prevent their iden-
tification by Corydon. Men were posted at the rail-
way station, the gaol, and all the places where the
informer was likely to pass through, but by some
chance, owing to the want of identity, he was per-
mitted to enter the gaol. The arrangements for the
removal of the prisoners to gaol was duly chronicled
at the Fenian headquarters, and 11 trusty men, well
armed with revolvers, were detailed to frustrate
them. The moment the van left the Court-house a
cab shot out of the adjoining street containing the
commander in chief of the party. It drove along in
front at a rapid pace until a point was gained where
the object could be carried out with facility. Not
one of the men who did the work was captured. As
soon as Kelly and Deasy arrived in a given place
they parted company and took temporary refuge in
the house of an old Irishwoman. Kelly disguised
himself in a few minutes, started out by another
door and mixed with the crowd. An omnibus passed
along just at the moment, and he got into it in
presence of a half dozen policemen, who were in the
act of arresting two man on the top of the vehicle,
believing them to have been connected with the
rescue. Further on he encountered another batch
of policemen, and waited to learn full particulars of
the affair from them. Later on the evening of the
same day Kelley and Detsy returned again to Man-
chester, and took up their quarters at the house of a
tried friend. Another correspondent from the same
city, also a Fenian, says that Colonel Kelly has
concluded to remain in Liverpool, where he has
secured a remunerative position as inspector of
British shipping and commerce until such time as
Irishmen in America form a consolidated body for
the overthrow of the British oligarchy."

The New York correspondent of the Cork Herald,
writing on the 29th October, says :—" I have been
informed, on reliable authority, that a movement is
in progress throughout England just now, looking
to the destruction simultaneously of all its important
cities by Greek fire, prorided any of the men now
in custody for having participated in the rescue of
Kelly and Deasy are executed. In this city a
band of 1,000 picked Fenians are in receipt of the
news through the Atlantic cable to destroy every
British ship in the harbour. No matter how incred-
ible the latter portion of this statement may ap-
pear, I am assured that it will be faithfully carried
out. There is nothing really to prevent its con-
summation, seeing that a few night policemen scat-
tered along the wharves would be the only obstacle.
The Irish people of Nev York are very numerous
and dangerous when excited by the feeling that a
wrong of any kind has been practised upon them.
The captain who navigated the Plato round the
Irish coast with 30,000 stand of arms on board,
&c., is in New York at present, no doubt with some
object of a Fenian nature in view, but what it is
I cannot say. He was a lieutenant in the regular
naval service of the Uni.ied States during the war,
and left it to take command of the expedition to
Ireland. He was once restored to his position after
resignation under similar circumstances, and I sup-
pose will be again if he applies for it. Mr. Savage
has issued a circular to the circles of great length
and force. He calls for the exercise of redoubled
energy in putting the machinery of the brotherhood
in a respectable state of organisation. He says that
the aspect of affairs at the present day, after the
stormy past, is not at all gloomy ; on the contrary,
the prospects are even brighter than before, and
augur well for a brilliant termination of their great
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An Anti-Fenian Demonstration.

The iron-clad and coal industries of Derbyshire
afford employment for a vast amount of unskilled
labour, and a great number of the Irish are em-
ployed in the neighbourhood of Chesterfield. Since
the Manchester Fenian outrage much uneasiness
has been felt by the authorities, and great precau-
tions have been taken. A public meeting, con-
vened by Irishmen, was held on Monday evening,
in the schools adjoining the Catholic Church, and
the building was literally crammed, there being
about 1,000 Irishmen present. Mr. Chas. Markham,
managing director of the Staveley Works, occupied
the chair, and he was supported by Fathers Lee and
Burch, and other gentlemen. The Chairman, in a
long speech, expressed his belief that the Irish in
Chesterfield did not approve of Fenians. He be-
lieved them to be on the whole a quiet, or-
derly, and industrious class of persons ; and,
therefore, he had willingly consented to preside at
the meeting though he had been told that somebody
would blow his brains out. William Lowe, an Irish
workman, of many years' standing, said he believed
that one Irishwoman could take care of the garrison
(i.e. the armoury) of Chesterfield. (Laughter and
cheers, and cries of " Good lad.") For the last four
years it was well known he had given his earnest
advice against " party business," because he had
seen what had come of it in '3l, '32, and '33. He had
seen the result of Ribbonism at that time, and he
was convinced that it was not the working Irishman
but the idle class—(cheers)—that both then and
now stirred up such movements. (Cheers.) Michael
M'Guire was the next speaker. He said that if the
English wanted any further proof, let them go and
walk over every land where the flag of England
waved, and there they would see Irishmen willing
to support that flag. (Bear, hear, and tremendous
cheers.) In China, in India, through the Crimean
war, and wherever Irishmen went, they had proved
themselves willing to support the flag of Old Eng-
land. (Renewed cheers.) They had not supported
it with their words and speeches only, but they had
upheld that flag by their hearts' blood. (Great
cheering.) In every country under the blue sky of
heaven they had done so, and proved their loyalty
with their lives. (Applause.) He had never yet
met an Englishman who would interfere with his
liberties, and he would defend Englishmen and
women if occasion required, but he did not think
it ever would, for their character was enough to
defend itself. Whatever affairs were between Ire-
land and the English Government let them settle
them quietly. (Loud, and continued cheers). Mr.
Murphy said he did not consider there was Any

danger of any trouble between the Irish and Eng-
lish, but he thought they were all working quietly
to get their living. They wanted to work, not to
fight, and came to England to mend themselves by
working. He hoped they would always continue
on good terms with their kind English friends.
(Cheers.) He believed Irishmen were soon touched,
and they did not like to be called Fenians. (Loud
cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped they would
have no more of that ill-feeling among them any
more, and that men would not be called Fenians.—
Patrick Hagan said he had worked at Staveley 16
years, and never had a wrong word with an Eng-
lishman, and did not want to. He considered they
ought all to live as brothers together. (Cheers.)
Other speeches followed, and a resolution condemn-
ing the Fenian conspiracy was adopted.

MISCELL:INEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The removal of State officers by order of the mili-
tary commander, continues in Louisiana. The Council of
the city of Jefferson has been suspended for violating
orders in electing city officers, and the Sheriff and Clerk
of the Fourth Judicial District Court, in the parish of St.
Landry, for obstructing Reconstruction.

James Spencer, of Salterville, New York, only
17 years old, fired a shot-gun, on the 12th October, at three
boys who were riding by him, two of whom were fatally
wounded. his object appears to have been pure mischief

A riot occurred at Westfield, Massachusetts, on
Oct. 12, in which a citizen was killed. Deputy Samuel
Chapin, of Springfield, in breaking up a gambling den
was attacked by a mob, on whom he fired four shots, re-
sulting in the death of John T. Brooks.
The races at Jerome Park were attended with a
fatal result, as on Wednesday, Oct. 16, a jockey fell atone
of the hurdles, and was killed.

Dr. ide, when preaching lately at Springfield,
Massachusetts, said that, notwithstanding the hindrances,
the spread of Christianity during the 67 years of this cen-
tury was as 600 per cent., while the increase of population
has been but 25 per cent.

The Rev. ---- Green, now in Litchfield gaol,
Connecticut, on a charge of poisoning his wife, appears to
be a ruffian of no ordinary determination. He concocted
a conspiracy which, if successful, would have liberated
himself and other prisoners, but being discovered he was
confined in a cell, in which he was only prevented from
beating out his brains against the door by the narrowness
of hie quarters.

The Governor and Town Council of New Hamp-
shire have appointed Jeremiah Smith, of Dover, to the
vacant judgeship of the Supreme Court.
Rev. E. M. Wherry and wife, Rev. Charles B.
Newton, and Rev. Francis bye, jun., of Pennsylvania,
sailed from Boston, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the ship
Zephyr, for Calcutta, to engage in the missionary work.
The farm near Norfolk, Virginia, from which the
negroes who had squatted refused to move, belonged to
Mr. Taylor, who has boon pardoned, and wants to resume
occupation. The tureau offered them a place on Governor
Wise's farm, still in its hands, which they refused, and
Government will be compelled to eject the blacks by a civil
pro

Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has requested
President Johnson to revoke General Canby's order relat-
ing to juries. He urges that in many districts of South
Carolina if the order be not suspended the negroes will be
in a majority, of whom not 5 per cent. can read or write, yet
will have to decide on all classes of cases.

Captain Schaff, in command of the Mount Ver-
non arsenal, Alabama, has been arrested by order of General
Pope, and will be tried by court-martial for the following
cowardly murder : —Mr. F. B. Shepherd wrote to ask for
an explanation of certain language Captain Schaff had used
in allusion to him. To this the Captain replied by terming
Mr. Shepherd "an infamous liar," a style of correspond-
ence that had a very disastrous end. On Mr. Shepherd
demanding satisfaction, Schaff detailed a party of soldiers
to proceed to Mr.-Shepherd's residence, who handcuffed
and brought him to the arsenal. When there Schaff shot
him through the neck, inflicting a mortal wound. Schaff
was tried for this wicked murder, by court-martial, on the
simple charge of " conduct unbecoming an officer." But
these proceedings have been annulled, and the capital
charge substituted.

General Sheridan has accepted an inyitation from
the Vermont Legislature to be present at the reunion of
the Vermont officers at Montpelier, together with Generals
W. H. Smith and W. T. F. Brooks, who commanded the
Vermont brigade during the war.

The Springfield Republican says :—" A party of
drunken Irishmen at Colchester, Connecticut, enjoyed a
fight on Saturday night, Oct. 12, which resulted in John
Killday being pounded to death with stones by Daniel
Sullivan, who has escaped. The selectmen of Colchester
offer $lOO reward for his capture." Fancy the enjoyment of
the man who was stoned to death.

The Vermont Legislature has elected the follow-
ing officers:—Secretary of State, Dr. George Nichols, of
Montpelier; Adjutant-General, William Wells, of Water-
bury ; Quartermaster-General, P. P. Pitkin, of Montpelier;
Judge-Advocate, General S. F. Atwood, of Monkton ;
Author of Accounts, Dugald Stewart, of Middlebury;
Commissioner of the Insane, Homer Goodhue, of West-
minster ; Sergeant-at-Arms, Z. C. Camp, of Montpelier.

Henry Ives, of Lee, formerly cashier of the Ware
National Bank, succeeds John J. Conklin, the defaulter, as
cashier of the First National Bank of New Milford, Con-
necticut.

Governor Chamberlain of Maine has obtained the
aid ho sought from the general Government for the returnp
of Elder Adams's Jaffa colonists.

Thomas S. Lang of North Vassalboro, owner of
the famous horse General Knox, has returned from a
year's residence in Europe in greatly improved health.

0. J. Rose, of Chicago, has been appointed
United States Consul at Mecklenburg, and has arrived at
Hamburg.

Franklin Olcott, lately United States Consular
Clerk at Montreal, has been transferred to the United
States Consulate General at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.

Bishop Potter, one of the American Bishops at
the-Anglican Convention, has returned home.

Bishop Potter was welcomed on his return to
New York from the Pat-Anglican Synod by the clorgy of
the diocese, when the synodical letter was road and ad-
dresses made.

Judge Lawrence, a member of the Impeachment
Committee, is said to have stated that the majority of the
committee were now in favour of Impeachment.

General Pope has' ordered the military to assist
the civil authorities in the collection of State taxes in
Alabama.

Admiral Farragut, on surveying the results of
the trial of the Rodman gun at Shoeburyness, said, " Well,
you may fill the gua with 1001bs. of powder, we don't."
Governor Brownlow has been elected United
States Senator by the Tennessee Legislature.
The Governor-General of Canada has received
petitions bearing 6,000 signatures for the release of Father
3.l‘lllahon, imprisoned for his part in the Fenian raid last
year.
General Marmaduke has been pardoned by the
President.

Charles R. Fluidram is the Democratic and Wil-
liam R. Marshall the Republican candidate for Governor
in Minnesota. In Maryland Ogden Bowie is the Demo-
cratic and Hugh L. Bond the Republican candidate for
Governor.

Hunnicutt, addressing a negro mob on the 21st
October in Richmond, denounced Northern men as d—d
Yankees. Some one in the crowd retorted, calling the
speaker a d—d liar, when the mob assailed him, and he
was only saved by the interference of the police.
Assistant Justice Swayne has pronounced the
Civil Rights Act coastitutional in Kentucky, on appeal
before the United States Circuit Court, and four men have
been sentenced under it to ten years' imprisonment and
hard labour for outrages on coloured people more than a
year ago.
Ex-President Buchanan has stated, according to
one of the numerous persons who pick up the conversa-
tion of prominent men for penny-a-lining purposes, that
"the policies and actions of parties have got beyond his
comprehension," and he can't imagine " what the result
will be." (!)
Mr. G. R. Cathcart has retired from The Charles-
ton (South Carolina) News, on account of political diffe-
rences with his partners, Messrs. M‘Millan and Morton.
The retiring editor favoured reconstruction under the
Military Bill ; Messrs. M‘Millan and Morton do not.
Professor E. W. Blake, jun., has been invited to
fill the chair of Physic in Columbia College to supply the
place of Professor Rood, who is prevented by illness from
discharging his duties.
The poet Longfellow has sold his real estate in
Stockbridge to C. F. Southmayd, of New York, for
$12,500. There are some 80 acres on one of the most
sightly and picturesque places in Berkshire County.
The Mexican Minister Romero has been detained
at Charleston, awaiting the arrival of the revenue cutter
from New Orleans, which, though telegraphed to arrive
on the 14th, is now so long overdue that an accident is
feared. Minister Romero may have to return to New York
to take a private passage.
Robert T. Lincoln has ;;Oen admitted to the bar
in Chicago,
Gen. Lee writes that there are 600 students at
his college, against 400 last year.
llayam has applied to Vice-Chancellor Malins
for an injunction to restrain Rushton from making chig-
nons according to his patent, which the unenlighte.nod world
would consider a ridiculous application to be A'ad° in
Chancery.
The death of the Hon. Thomas E. Noel, of IVI-js-
souri, has left a vacancy in the Third Di4trict, for whio4

James H. Chase, of Granton, is proposed as a proper can-
didate. The St. Louis Democrat upholds him as a sound
Radical, and, what is of far mere importance, as a man of
excellent character and well-known ability. Two other
candidates are in the field.

The Hon. John B. Page, who was inaugurated
Governor of Vermont on Thursday, October 17, is the
twenty-seventh Governor of the State. He enters upon
the discherge of his duties at the unusually early age of
41 years.

Senator Sumner has started on his Western tour.
He has some twenty or thirty engagements in Michigan,
Illinois, Ohio, and other States, and will be absent until
about the middle of next month. His lecture is entitled,
" Are we a Nation ?"

Joseph Dion, billiard champion of America, has
challenged the " champion of England" for the champion-
ship of the world.

The Cincinnati Enquirer nominates George II
Pendleton for the next Presidency, and claims to speak fur
the Democracy of the North-West in so doing.
Speaker Coifax has taken the house fronting
Lafayette-square, and opposite Secretary Seward's resi-
dence, and will "keep house" in Washington this winter
for the first time since entering Congress.
It is said that the number of patents annually
issued by the United States is three times greater than
that of Europe. More than 200 patents a week have been
issued at Washington for the last six months.

Plate glass has not yet been manufactured in the
United States. The chief supply hitherto has been from
Belgium. A practical glass-worker in Birmingham,
Pennsylvania, has, however, recently invented and carried
into operation an apparatus for the manufacture of plate
glass, which is said to produce a quality equal to the best
imported.

Colonel Phineas Stanton, of Le Roy, New York,
artist of the Williams College South American expedition,
died at Quito, Equador, on September 5.
Marcus Bassett, builder of the Custom-house and
other public buildings at New Haven, died on Sunday
October 13.

On the 30th October, at Homburg Les Bains,
Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Phillip Schieffelin, of New
York, now at Wiesbaden. Mrs. S. died very suddenly of
disease of the heart.

Miss Braddon attacks the editor of the Pall-Mall
Gazette in this month's number of Belgravia. She makes
Captain Charles Shandon write from Hades to the Editor,
reminding him of the prospectus drawn up in the Fleet
Prison, where the worthy captain was passing a pleasant
time, which he seems so strongly to regret that we fear
he must in truth have dated from a hot place. "We ad-
dress ourselves to the higher circles of society; we care
not to discuss it. The Pall-Mall Gazette is written by
gentlemen for gentlemen ; its conductors speak to the
classes in which they live and were born. The
field-preacher has his journal ; the Radical free-thinker
has his journal ; why should the gentlemen of England be
unrepresented in the press ?" So, for their sake, the Pall
Mall came forth, " a journal written by gentlemen, for
gentlemen, quotha !" exclaims Capt. Shandon. "A bundle
of cuttings from other papers, garnished with flippant and
frivolous comment, and little carping, spiteful paragraphs,
and prurient harpings upon subjects that decency best
reprobates by decent avoidance; and sham letters from
sham correspondents, all breathing the same malignant
feeling against some one or something respected by other
people, and to give spice to the whole an occasional for-
gery." This is the Bdgraria's estimate of the journal
written for gentlemen by gentlemen. Our readers know
the story of the quarrel, mainly, however, from the Pall-
Mall Gazette. Of course a poor monthly magazine can
have no chance against a daily newspaper. The light
artillery of the daily may have hammered away for
days, demolished everything within its range, and
half-forgotten the affair before the heavy guns of the
more ponderous periodical can be brought up. Now,
however, we have Miss Braddon's version. First, then, she
attributes to the Pall Mall the low and mercenary motives
of damaging a trade rival. "Your employer," she makes
Charles Shandon say to the editor, "being a publisher, and
the owner of a rival magazine to the Belgravia." Next she
describes thew mean objects as being carried out by an
unfair criticism (although allowing full latitude in this) ;
by a series of sham letters from sham correspondents, end-
ing in a forged one; by a spurious advertisement forwarded
to a Dutch newspaper, the author of which she has as vainly
attempted to discover as the author of the letter which
bore her forged signature. She complains of the way in
which her efforts to discover the culprits have been met
by the Editor, who baulked instead of aiding her, making
the full use of the power he derived from his post in his
unfair combat with a woman. Tho advertisement in the
Utrecht paper, to which the Pall Mall drew attention on the
28th September, only appeared in the Dutch paper on the
26 h September, two days before, and not in time, if Miss
Braddon be correct, for the paper to have reached London.
She says, therefore, that the Editor know cf the concoction
of this advertisement before its publication. Now these
aro grave charges, whatever may be the complexion given
to them by the journal written by gentlemen for gentle-
men. They may be shown to be susceptible of ex-
planation, and the Pall Mall would do well to ex-
plain them away. Tho world believes that the Pall Mall
critic was not only justified but right in his criticism of
"Circe," but the wcrld holds a very different opinion about
the after proceedings of the London evening daily. Of
course any journal might be deceived by a forged letter,
but if such a letter was given circulation, and that circu-
lation tended to injure another, the editor ought to aid the
party injured by using every means to discover the cul-
prit, which would best be done by placing the document
in the hands of the detectives, and supplementing the re-
ward offered by the injured party by an additional sum as
a spur to the exertions of the police. The story of the
spurious advertisement in the Dutch paper following that
of the forged letter, together with the course taken by
the Pall Mall in refusing to aid Miss Braddon, in
suppressing her letters, and in justifying the state-
ment made by the forger, at least require explanation,
not so much for Miss Braddon's sake, as for that of
a journal daily growing in power and influence. No one
will credit that the Pall Mall Gazette merely wrote in the
trade interest of its owner, for the very sufficient reason
that it would not be his trade interest—the reputation of the
Pall Moll being of far greater importance than any rivalry
of the Belgravia to the Cornhill Magazine. This charge
of a low mercenary motive is fully answered by the above
fact, and wo believe there are few who will question that
the statement in the prospectus has been carried out, and
that the Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for
gentlemen. We can make some allowances for the editor
of Belgravia i❑ thus retaliating on the Pall Mall, and in
advancing charges which few will credit, yet enough re-
mains to call for a fuller explanation from the Pall Mall.

Thereis an article in the Fortnightly Review for this
month on "The Last Two Abyssinian Books," from which
we extract the following passage, convinced of its truth,
after very much of the same kind of experience which led
the author to write it. He alludes to the groat rush of
Melbourne to the diggings on the discovery of the aurifer-
ous field. "In this place, if I may be allowed a few lines
space to say what is perhaps irrelevant, I should
like to note that it was the Chinese who .crept
up and found the spot; and, moreover, that the
people who undertook to keep up our communications with
our basis ;of operations by coaches were all Americans,
Yankees almost universally from the Northern States"
',rather rich this, where on earth else can Yankees come
from? Ed. A.A.T.) It is like Hebrew to speak to an
English reader about ' Cobb's Lines,' but I cannot help
whimsically wondering whether, if our military authori-
ties had contracted with Cobb's Lines for the transport of
the Abyssinian expedition, these wonderful Americans,
who drive their coaches across America among hostile
Indians, would not have done it for them at least quite as
well as they will do it for themselves."

The following is an extract from the report
written by Myrow Angel for the committee on the Paris
Exhibition, descriptive of the geography, resources, cli-
mate, and social condition of Eastern Nevada :—" In
inviting population to a new country as is Nevada, every
care should be taken to present the resources and every
condition as they exist, not in a too florid manner, nor
exaggerated, nor either falling short of the full statement
of facts, and the fair presentation of opportunities.
This has been our object, and if the statements aro
dull and prosy they ara worthy of belief, and all
which might give foundation to high hopes, or deceive
the capitalist, the tradesman, or the labourer, has been
carefully avoided. We know we can present to the world
a country as rich in its mineral resources as ever the sun
shone upon ; of an agricultural capacity capable of sup-
porting a vast population ; a climate without severe ex-
tremes of heat or cold, and of exceeding healthfulness
and invigorating influences ; a society hospitable, en-
lightened and law-abiding; with churches for every sect,
and schools for every class, munificently endowed ; with
well-built cities and villages and public highways ;
connecting with the world by stages, mails, and
the instantaneous communication by telegraph; soon to
be traversed by the great transcontinental railway ; a
country lying in the path of empire ; a continuous line of
great States stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
a country whose future is as bright as the glittering metal
which is her staple and her pride ; and to such a country
we have no hesitancy in inviting the countless thousands
of those who would add to the wealth they already
possess, those who would accept free homes, with
bright prospects in a free country, where every man
is a sovereign with equal voice in the government,
and protected in justice and right by the laws, which
aro made alike for all. The lands are free to the husband-
man, and he is invited to make his home upon them, to
make them his for ever; living in ease, plentifulness, and
independence. The mines are free to the miners, and in
the broad domain, so much unoccupied, he has but to seek,
find, and make them his own. No such opportunities were
ever before offered the people of the earth, and in the rapid
progress that settlement is making, these opportunities
will soon pass away."

Kaye's Lives of Indian office's has been favour-
ably reviewed in the New York Nation. The critic says:
a The history of the British East India Company has been
thug far the greatest romance of the modern world. No-

thing in anoient history can rival it in interest, strangeness,
and picturesqueness, and there is, perhaps, nothing so
strange about it as that—with an origin so mean and aims
so immoral as its aims were during the first century of its
existence—it should have attracted to its service such s
large number of able avid upright mon. No service has
been able to boast a greater number of men who did great
things for love of their work, and without hope of fame or
even of any recognition of it in the world in which they
were born and hoped to die ; for most of the Indian offi-
cers' exploits, whether in civilising or educatingor fighting
or ruling, were performed in a distant and barbarous region,
in which few but their own connections felt any inte-
rest. Now and then a striking incident, like the
Afghan or Sikh wars, or the mutiny, brought the
actors into the view of the Western world ; but it wits
only at these rare intervals that it learnt how mans
great soldiers and administrators, and, what is better, how
many good and pure men, the East India Company had
enrolled under its flag. Mr. Kaye Tvr,te brief but interest-
ing memoirs of a doz n of them for "Good Words,"
popular English religious magazine, and has since revised
and extended his sketches and collected thorn in the two
portly volumes before us. We do not well know on what
principle lie has made his selection of his heroes, but they
represent nearly every kind of distinction which has been
achieved in the company's service: Lord Cornwallis, so
unfortunate in this country, but everywhere an honest
gentleman ; Sir John Malcolm, the prince of Indian
politicians—the "Boy Malcolm," as he was called, owing
to the flow of animal spirits and the love of athletic
sports, which he preserved during his whole life ; Mount-
stitart Elphinstone, of the civil service, who rode in his
youth beside Wellington at Assaye, and was perhaps the
first of the great race of administrators of whom the
company has since had so many ; Henry Martyn,
one of its chaplains, whose piety, devotion, and ter-
rible sufferings in the discharge of his duty en-
title him to a place beside Brainerd and Xavier ; Alex-
ander Burnes and Conolly, the great explorers of Central
Asia; Sir Henry Lawrence, the hero of Lucknow, whose
death was one of the noblest and most affecting scenes of
the mutiny ; and Nicholson, by far the foremost soldier
of the Indian army, and in many ways one of the most
remarkable of modern times ; the only man of our day who
could boast of having been worshipped as a god, and who,
in an earlier age and a less settled society, might have
founded a dynasty and built up an empire. The whole
twelve, too, were men of the middle classes, one or two of
almost humble origin, and they are drawn from England,
Ireland, and Scotland. The leading civilian-explorers,
Malcolm, Elphinstone, Burnes, are Scotchmen ; only Qua
of the distinguished soldiers, Neill, coming from that part
of the kingdom. Henry Martyn, the missionary, was an
Englishman, and some time a fellow of St. John's College,
Cambridge. Pottinger, Lawrence, and Nicholson were
Irishmen—Nicholson's being, perhaps, the greatest name
of all ; his fall in the streets of Delhi while urging 3
faltering column to advance extinguishing fairer hopes
than any other officer in the British service has ex-
cited during the last fifty years. He was the son of
a Dublin doctor, was brought up by a widowed mother,
and with but little help from fortune made his way to the
front rank of Indian soldiers and administrators, and was
at the time of his untimely death recognised by the whole
army as perhaps the greatest character and the only real
military genius the struggle had brought to light.
Tbis is the Round Table's opinion of the Tonza-
hawk :—" Much has been said in dispraise of the Tomahawk,
and the Savage Club—the somewhat jovial institution
which vouchsafed poor Artetnus Ward such a good time
as hurried him into eternity—has considered it duo to its
respectability to publicly disclaim its rumoured connection
with it. Nevertheless, in the first number of the Toma-
hawk which we have seen (that for October 5), we look
in vain for anything to justify its proscription. It cer-
tainly does not attempt to stifle social delinquencies with
rose-water, and its satire is scathing and keen, handling
without gloves things which Punch and Fun discreetly
avoid. For instance, its cartoon—covering two pages and
printed iu tint—represents the poetised Indian of Cooper
and Hiawatha drawing back a curtain and disclosing
tableaux, to which he points with a fine moral exultation,
of certain of the blackguardisms by which Englishmen
have been distinguishing themselves on the Continent,
the legend being, " Why we are so respected in France."
The assemblage which has recently departed from Lam-
beth it rechristens the Pan-Anglicannot, Synod, and styles
it a "flash in the pan." As the most suitable testimonial
—" philsopher's stone"—to Mr. Tupper, it suggests a
feeble-minded asylum, to be called Tupper Hall, and to
bear over its entrance the inscription, "Si momentum
quteris circumspice !"

COUNTRY MARKETS.

SALISBURY.-TUESDAY.

A good attendance of farmers, millers, and dealers to-
day, and, with a good shoe of wheat, trade was by 00
means active, and prices of fine sorts declined is per qr.
There was a fair show of barley, with a limited business
doing. For oats quotations were about as high as last
week. Beans and peas unaltered.
The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from
68s to 76s ; barley, 36s to 485.; oats, 25s to 32s ; beans, 46i
to 58s; and peas, 42s to 508 per qr. Tares, from 5s 6d to
7 • Od per bushel ; Best bread, 174 ; household ditto, 161
per Blb loaf. Flour, 52s to 53s per sack.