The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

ThE SON, LONDON,- SATURDAY EVENING, 'BEPTtMBER 8, 1866.

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The rebound from stringency to easiness in the
rates for discount has been so rapid that the com-
,lll,ercial community has had little time to change
`fteir course of action in the Southern hemisphere,
Australia, and also in South America. The mer-
cantile requirements of this country are, therefore,
ior the present rather limited, and as money is
superabundant, the rates continue to tend down-
Ward• In the open Money Market the quotations
for the best bills are fully per cent. below the
Exchange,
minimum, viz., 43. per cent. At the Stock
'''lchange, also, loans on Government Securities are
ILI very moderate request, and the charges from day
° daY on English Government Securities are 33-
and 4 per cent.
The movements of the precious metals during the
I)4t Week have been on a limited scale. The im-
NOB have.amounted to about £363,635, the greater
/jlprtien of which has arrived from America and the
East Indies. The exports have amounted to
£412,500, a large proportion of which has been
,
"eBPatched to the continent.
The France has been announced this morning
4°ltiVera Cruz with £300,000 in specie.
The liquidators of the English Joint Stock Bank
hale
arranged to pay the dividend of Bs. in the
Ntald, at the offices of the bank, on the 10th, 11th,
2th, and 13th instant.
At the bullion department of the Bank of Eng-
rd, yesterday afternoon, there was an influx of
8,000 in bars, and 3,000 sovereigns. There was
,80 a withdrawal of £288,000 for shipment to
New "York.

Two O'CLOCK.

t:e At the Paris Bourse to-day, according to Reuter's
71egrara, the 3 per Cent. Renter were dealt in at
'I. 30c. Firm; inanimate.
very little business was transacted to-day in the
tAllarket for the English Funds, and in every other
ueAartment of the Stock Exchange. Dreary
/leather, recreationary trips, a few unfavourable re-
1301tit from the north about the harvest, and large
11,6Preents of gold to New York for the purchase of
American Securities, seem to have negatived the
!Woarable effect of easy money, and tranquility
1114 Our political and commercial relations at
true and abroad. The Government Funds during
7 present administration, although of such recent
`4lte have been firmer than for a considerable
Dried, and Consols, notwithstanding the paucity of
f 0 business, have closed with great firmness at 891 1,
,l'transfer, and at 891 / for the account The New
?tees and Reduced Annuities were 87* z ; Bank
~.°1 England Stock, 245 ; India Stock, 104 j ;
'tato Enfaced Paper, 1001.
*Very few alterations of importance have taken
Vaee in Foreign Stocks. Turkish 5 per Cents. are
30/ ; Mexican. 16/ 17*; Greek, 13/ 14 ;
"Ilanish Passive, 224 23.
American Securities are comparatively dull, and
tillotations are weaker. United States Govern-
ment 6 per Cent. 5-20 Bonds have receded *, to
to
721 ; Erie Railway shares are steady at 441 451;
but the Consolidated Mortgage of the Atlantic and
Grit Western Railway have risen 1, to 491 501.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
very moderate, and prices generally are a
'4ii.1410 flatter. Great Northern have declined ss. ;
tiL:diand, and South-Eastern, each 10s. ; Lanca-
v're and Yorkshire, 15s. ; and Caledonian and
"°,,r_th Eastern (Berwick), each £l.
The Foreign and Colonial lines were inactive, and
1, ithout material change in prices.
Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very quiet.
Alliance are dealt in at 21} ; Consolidated 51 4 ;
4~Perial Ottoman, 91 ; and Union of London,
4. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents. have im-
Pttoved to 115 ; Electric Telegraph to 135 137 ;
I,7elegraph Construction and Maintenance to 171
h ; and Fore-street 'Warehouse to 11 k ; while
'ldson's Bay Company are flat at 161 /.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
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i1)0. Account, Oct. 9 B9l 1
Neer Cent. Reduced B7l
ktewi, 3 per Cent B7* 1 7
-ijr 3 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
4„_-°. per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Wilities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
axpire sth April, 1885 —
D 0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908.1 —arch.
June.
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D .£5OO —
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D 0 Acco uni, of Engltand Stock, St per Cent 215
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D 0 4
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D' 51 per Cent.,
enMt. ay 1879 —
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D°• Bonds,4 por Cent., £l,OOO —
"0. under £l,000
41 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
.Outine Republic, 6 per Cont., £l5 pd — pm
tttrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
tzilian 5 per Cont
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11 Do 1865 —
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bu. £lOO Bonds 691
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120'ior New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
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Ciao 7 per Cent B6}
1)-, Second Issue —
l ° £lOO Bonds —
bo Do. 1864 —
bo -ElOO Bonds BBl i
~1),,* (210vernment Railway Debentures B3l 1
%Nl,' 480 paid
Do - 5 per Cents., 1821-5, ex Coupons
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t.l •-• account
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0-11 per Cent 1865
bo. Account
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be 2 Per Cent _
bo• Deferred
l'eNvLiald Warrants (Hectares)
1)0.'14 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account • 67
to 4,
"Per Cent. (Uribarren) —
Dttli °n° 1
utPer Cent 1862
l'o Ace i
tor ese 3 per Cent., 1853
'3, 44J-
b Do. A Per Cont., 1856, '7, '9,'60, '62,
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Do-Ti 5 per Cent, 1822, £St —
Do 4!
. I), 4i Per Cont. 1850
34 Per Cent, 1860
(
b lie() 55
II):r Cent.)ent 18621859 894
4,r,1i0i ,Per Cent. 1864 — '
Jio an 5 per Cent
l'itiß'"l, °count
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thiti 1 Per Cent. 1864
t 416
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Do 6
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1), Cent. 1858
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to 6
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YIiEFERENCN titIARIGti.

Great Eastern, E. Anglian, C stock 7 per cent. pt 1231

I'REFERENCE SHARES AN!) TOWi.b.
London, Brighton, dm., 5 per cent. 1865, 1018
LINES LEASED AT FIXED ittGIiTALS.
Chester and Holyhead,
Ditto, 5 pr cent., 108
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, gi
Imperial Mexican, lirn., 6
Northern of France, 46
ntoman (Smyrna to Aidln),s
Paris and Orleans. 35
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, IEI

FORIGIGN KIN Kr,
Chontales Gold and Silver Alining, 21
St. John del Rey, Rm.,
BANKS.

Mance, lira.. 211 1
British and Californian, 11m., 3}
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, VI
Consolidated Bank, lira., 5f
imperial Ottoman, gja
Land Mortgage Bank or India. lira., 31
London and Brazilian (lim.), 37
Loudon and County, 65*
London Joint Stock, 44}
London and South African, 131 14
London and South-Western, lira.. 17
Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira., 11
Union of London, 471

MISCICLLANJCOUB.
Anglo-American Telegraph, l6f
Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua. lim., 1071 11}
Bombay Gas, Um.,

Ditto. Id ideue, 4i
Ceylon Company, 9
Ditto, A shares. 11
China Steam :hip and Labiutia Coal Company, 31
City of Moscow Gas, lim , 1 t
Credit Foncler and Mobiller of England, 5 11
Kleetric Telegraph, 1361 7
Fore-street Warehouse, lirn.,
Hudson's Bay, 161
Imperial Laud Company of Lira., 4
Imperial Mercantile Credit Aliso., firm. 15
ttalian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 51 1
London Financial Association, lira 121 ,
Lon oil arid Provincial Marine, 2
Peninsula and Oriental steam. 6.1
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, Dm., 21
Ditto (£l5), 171 1 16
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance Um, 7

SPEKE MEMORIAL.--A monument has just been
erected in Kensington-gardens (very near the Serpentine-
bridge) to the memory of Spoke, the African traveller. It
bears the following simple inscription :—" Spoke : In me-
mory Victoria, Nyanza, and the Nile."
TRADE WITH JAPAN.—The London Gazette of
last night contains the copy of a commercial convention
and a revised tariff, signed at Jeddo on the 25th of Juno
last, between the Government of Japan and the representa-
tives of the Governments of Great Britain, Franco, Hol-
land, and the United States of America.
THE HARVEST.—The harvest has been closed in
the eastern counties under very unfavourable circumstances
the weather during the past week having been extremely
inclement. The great bulk of the cereal crop has, however,
been secured in fair condition. There are complaints as to
potato disease in, several Lnalitiee,

Emigration of Young Women under Miss

Rye's Scheme.

By the Red Jacket, which left the Mersey for
Melbourne on the 30th ult., that indefatigable emi-
gration reformer, Miss Rye, sent out the first com-
pany of young women under the new regulations
secured by her personal visit to the Australian colo-
nies. Miss Rye, after four years' travelling and
effort in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland,
New Zealand, and the other emigration fields of the
antipodes, has returned with powers which go far to
remove the difficulties that stood in her way when
she began her good work, five years since. She has
control of Government funds amounting to about
£3,000 per month for the purpose •of sending out
emigrants, suitable for the requirements of the
colonies, in such a way as secures them from the
evils—overcrowding, bad sanitary arrangements,
and prevalent immorality—which have done so much
to discourage the emigration of respectable people
to that part of the world.
The Scotsman gives the following particulars of
Miss Rye's work : _ _

" With the view of ascertaining by personal ob-
servation the condition of things under which these
Government emigrants leave this country, our corre-
spondent visited the depot at Birkenhead while they
were quartered there previous to embarkation, and
li
the vessel itself, which lay alongside the depot,
directly accessible from the latter by a large covered
gallery. He found there in all about 360 emigrants ;
of whom 100 were known as "Rye's young women,"
about as many more young women holding warrants
of emigration issued by the Government of Victoria
in the colony, several families, and a considerable
number of young men. The party under Miss Rye's
care were girls especially selected by herself. The
qualifications insisted upon in these cases are good
health and good moral character. The first is
tested by medical examination ; the second partly by
reference, and mainly by Miss Rye's personal in-
tercourse with them. These two requisites, being
secured, the girls are passed from their homes to the
colony free of cost to themselves, except to the extent
of 10s. for bedding, &c., on board ship. They are
received in the first install& into the home depot,
placed by Miss Rye under the care of a qualified
matron on board ship, and at the end of the voyage
received into the Government Emigrant's Home in
Melbourne until they are providei with employers,
who must themselves be accredited persons of good
character. To show the kind of regulation existing
in this respect, we may state that no publican is
allowed to engage a girl from the Emigrants' Home,
or indeed any girl who has not Men long enough in
the colony to have gained some practical experience
of life there. In the present instance Miss Rye's 100
consists of 72 English girls, 7 Scotch, and 21 Irish,
all well formed, healthy, intelligent, and of respect-
able appearance. About the whole company there
was an air of self-respect and business-like indepen-
dence, combhied with modest decorum, which spoke
well for Miss Rye's fitness to discharge the task she
has undertaken, and promised as well for the com-
munity of which these girls are about to become
members. Many of them seemed to be country
girls, accustomed to exercise and hard work. All
were qualified for domestic service in one form or
other, and seemed to be of a higher class than the
average of our domestic servants at home.

" The other girls, who were not under Miss Rye's
care, were what are called ' warrant-holders.' That
is, they receive their passage to Melbourne by vir-
tue of Government warrants or passes obtained for
them, and paid for at a remarkably low rate, by re-
latives or friends in the colony. These are going
out to fathers, brothers, cousins, or to future
husbands ; and the Government will cease to be
responsible for them upon their arrival at Mel-
bourne, where they will be handed over to their
friends. The remaining emigrants on board the Red
Jacket, excepting only seven families under Miss
Rye's care, sent out on nearly the same terms
as her girls, were also warrant-holders. Most of
these belonged to the classes most suited to emigra-
tion—labourers, artisans, farm-girls, home-servants,
and so on. Of the married men who went out with
their families under Miss Rye's direction, one was a
carpenter, one painter„ one plumber, and the others
similar trades.

" Our correspondent was much interested by the
arrangements on board ship. The Red Jacket is a
large ship, broad of beam and roomy, fitted up with
accommodation for 700 or 800 emigrants. There
are three large cabins set apart respectively for single
men, single women, and married people with their
families. Tho single men's cabin is forward, the
single women's aft, with the married people's cabin
amidships. It is with the single women's quarters
we are at present most concerned, and a description
of the department in which they are lodged will
serve pretty nearly as a description of the other sec-
tions. This cabin is a large, commodious, and well-
ventilated apartment, with 125 berths, for the ac-
commodation of 250 girls, and provided with 20 or
30 mess-tables. The berths are all furnished with
bedding, and curtained off from the body of the
cabin. They are arranged' in racks, or sets, with
12 berths (for 24 girls) in each rack, and are both
larger and further apart than is usual in the steer-
ages on board even passenger ships of the best lines.
Adjoining the cabin are a lavatory, with large zinc
troughs and small basins (this lavatory, by-the-by,
though large, might be a little larger with advan-
tage) ; a dispensary, from which the ship's doctor
dispenses only for the cabin, the others having each
its own dispensary ; the matron's dormitory ; the
hospital, capable of holding 30 or 40 patients ; and
other necessary adjuncts.
" The discipline of the ship is equally well
understood from the regulations of this depart-
ment. No man is allowed free access to this
cabin, except the doctor. This gentleman,
who has made several trips to Australia and
back, has already so far gained the confidence of
the authorities that his remuneration has increased
each voyage. By a salutary regulation his pay de-
pends upon his success in keeping the passengers
healthy ; for he will receive £1 a-head for every
emigrant he lands in Melbourne alive from the Red
Jacket. Ile acts as chaplain to the ship, and is in-
vested for the time being with full magisterial
powers. The only other persons, except, under
regulations, the captain or his deputy, admitted at
any time to the cabiu, are certain of the married
men, who are appointed to receive the stores from
the single men, who bring them from the forward
hatches and deposit them amidships, and convey
them to the single women's cabin. Constables are
appointed from amongst the married men, to pre-
vent communication between the forward and after
cabins ; and any breach of these regulations is
punishable with 24 hours' in the black-hole. The
girls are separated into messes of eight in each.
Each mess has its own " captain"—the woman ap-
pointed as cook for the voyage—and its own table.
Each woman has her own plate, basin, knife and
fork, &c., and a bag to put them in, which hangs
by the side of her berth, in company with the bag
containing her clothes. It is the duty of the " cap-
tain" of each mess to keep clean the table utensils
of the mess, and to preside over the mess at meals.
The other girls are appointed in turns to scrub the
floors, tables, berths, and fittings of the cabin, to
wash clothes, And otherwise take their share in the
common duty of preserving cleanliness and health.
"It is obvious that these arrangements have been
carefully made, and that they are about as perfect
as such arrangements can be. The Emigration
Commissioners have had before them the sad expe-
rience blunders
and crimes in emigration
mprovisions and regulations have
not
While their ships are fitted
transport,coefe
tOO
ondy mthesesoon.
and arranged upon some such plan as this, those
emigrants, and friends of emigrants, who are wise
and well disposed, must see the importance of pre-
ferring government supervision to the accidents and
often systematic mismanagement of private vessels.
The Red Jacket starts with every advantage. She
is far from overcrowded, and her passengers are
healthy as far as can be known. It is greatly to
the credit of Miss Rye that she has made it a positive
condition of her taking part in this work that her
girls shall be sent out only in government ships.
Such arrangements are the best means of compelling
a reform in the emigration traffic, and in emigrant
ships generally. Miss Rye's influence amongst the
young women of the country is great, and deserves
to be greater, for while her kindness of heart and

self -sacrificing interest in the work commands their
confidence, her prompt and business-like acuteness
assures the selection of such emigrants as will do
credit to themselves and to the colonies to which
they go. Her next company will be despatched in
October, and in the meantime she will be occupied
in receiving applications and examining applicants
for her next shipment.

The Atlantic Cable of 1865.

The following telegram was received by Reuter's
Telegram Company (Limited), at 7.50 p.m., from
Mr. It. A. Glass, managing director of the Telegraph
Construction and Mlintenance Company (Limited),
Sept. 7 :
" VALENTIA, Sept. 7.
" Following received from Great Eastern at 6.11

p.m. :-

_
" Catining to Glass. —Ship's time, noon, lat. 49
8 ; long. 51 26. Total cable payed out from splice,
698.81 miles. Distance run from splice, 606.6
miles. Total slack, 15.23 per cent. Heart's Con-
tent distant 114.8 miles. Weather fine. Sea calm.
Tests perfect.' "

By telegram we learn that the steamer France,
belonging to the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique,
arrived at St. Nazaire yesterday, bringing dates from Vera
Crux Aug. 13th, Havannah 18th, and St. Thomas 24th ;
400 passengers ; and 81,500,000 for London and Paris.

Subjoined is a very important circular issued this
morning :

You will have learned f ro.n the public prints that on
Thursday last an order was obtained from the Court of
Chancery authorising this committee and its solicitors,
Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, of Ely-place, Holborn, assisted
by Mr. Oswald Howell, of the firm of Walker, Reddall,
Nix, and Howell, accountants, of No. 39, King-street,
Cheapside, to investigate the books and accounts cf 0 verend,
Gurney and Co. (Limited). The undersigned having formed
themselves into a committee on behalf of the shareholders,
ho pe, through the instrumentality of their professional auxi-
liaries, to establish grounds for resisting the payment of the
call of £10; for holding the whole of the directors responsible
for the capital of the company ; and generally for promoting
the interests of the shareholders in this disastrous concern.
In order to carry out these important objects it will be
necessary to raise a defence fund at the rate of so much
per share. The proportion will, of course, depend on
the number of co-operating shareholders and shares re-
presented, but we have no reason to suppose that under
any circumstances it can exceed five shillings per share.
At all events, the undersigned have already received so
many spontaneous promises of aid from shareholders very
largely interested, that they confidently expect such an
amount of support as will reduce the charges much below
the foregoing estimate, and they consider it onlynecessary
at present that with the annexed authority a provisional
payment of 2s. Gd. per share should be remitted. In the
event of your agreeing to support this committee you will
be kind enough with all convenient speed to sign the an-
nexed authority and forward it with the proposed remit-
tance (either by Post-office order or by a cheque crossed
' Bank of England," payable to Mr. Oswald Howell) to the
undersigned at the above address.

ALARMING ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a
very alarming accident occurred in the Victoria station of
the Brighton and Chatham and Dover Railway Companies.
It appears that one of the Brighton Company's trains, con-
sisting of five empty carriages, was standing in the
" shunting-yard," about to be shunted. The train due et
Victoria station from the Crystal Palace at 2.11 then neared
the station, when the signalman turned the lever in his
signal box, in order to shunt the Crystal Palace train on
to its proper platform. The connecting rod of the shunt,
however, broke and the points remained open, allowing the
Crystal Palace train to run on to the line upon which the
Brighton train was standing. A collision then ensued, in
which two of the carriages of the Brighton train wore
smashed to atoms and the other three were more or less
injured. The Crystal Palace train was one of those in
which the carriages are closely coupled, and it is stated
that had they been coupled by ordinary irons the force of
tho collision would have overturned the whole of them.
By means of the close coupling, however, not one was
thrown off the line, and the lives of many passengers wore
by this means saved. The damage to the Crystal Palace
train in comparison with that of the Brighton was very
slight. The whole of the roof lamps were smashed, as
well as the lamps in the guard's break-van. The engine
fortunately was a new tank engine, one specially em-
ployed upon the Crystal Palace line, and of extreme power.
It has sustained some damage, and will require repairing.
One of the guards—Robbins—states that he looked out of
window and saw that an accident was inevitable, and at
once applied the break, but while in the act the collision
took place, and ho was thrown from one end of the car-
riage to the other. He has sustained a severe contusion
ou his arm. Many of the passengers were much shaken.

FLOODS IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES, Sept. 7.
After a slight cessation of rain on Thursday the weather
again became stormy, and through the remainder of the day
and night heavy and deluging rains havo fallen. In conse-
quence of the great quantity of moisture which has fallen
during the past fortnight, there are inundations in man y
districts of the midland counties, and there is now no doubt
that a great deal of damage will be done. Between Keg-
worth and Loughborough there is a great quantity of water
out, and cattle have been with difficulty extricated from the
flood. The crops (particularly barley) are suffering. A
great deal of that which has not been gathered is soddened
and stained, and in some places has sprouted. At Aslock-
ton, between the rivers Trent and Smite, the land is under
water. The meadows between Beeston and 'Sawley are
submerged ; and, indeed, in the vale of the Trent gene-
rally the waters have appeared, and, as there is every ap-
pearance of unsettled weather, a much greater and very
probably much more disastrous flood will take place than
has occurred at this time of the year in the midland coun-
ties for many years. At Burton-on-Trent and other dis-
tricts in Staffordshire the floods have appeared. Harvest
has been greatly retarded, and much of the grain—that
which has remAined so long in the field—will be of very
inferior quality. Throughout Lincolnshire, Leicestershire,
Notts, and Derbyshire there was a good breadth housed
before the heavy -rains had done much damage ; some has
unfortunately been carted too precipitately. Around Bourn,
Louth, and Spilsby the rains have been deluging, causing
injury to all kinds of produce. In some parts of Notts
very little has been done in the fields during the past fort-
night, and consequently the condition of the grain is suf-
fering, The barometer remains low, the waters are still
rising, and there is every indication of continued moistnrow
A fair breadth of grain in some districts of these counties
has been well cleared. Around Stamford there is not much
remaining out, and from Tallington to Peterborough nearly
all the grain is cleared.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO DUNROBIN.—The Inverness
Courier, referring to the report of the postponement
of the long-looked for visit of the Prince and Princess of
Wales to Dunrobin Castle, says :—" A circumstance has
just occurred that creates some uncertainty as to whether
the visit will take place this year. The King and Queen
of Denmark have announced an intention of coming to
this country on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales,
and should this take place at the time set apart for the
northern journey it would be necessary for their Royal
Highnesses to postpone the latter and proceed to England."
The Northern Emign, however, says it is still believed that
their Royal Highnesses will be present at the review on
the 29th curt., and that the Prince of Wales will in person
take the command. A distinguished party is to be at the
castle, including Lord and Lady Grosvenor and the Earl
and Countess of Caithness.—Edinburgh Courant.
FRENCH GENERALS RISEN FROM THE RANKS.—
England has no parallel instance to show of pro-
motions from the ranks of the army to the highest mili-
tary offices, which have been so common in France since
the first revolution. "La carriero ouverte aux talents"
has there received many illustrations, which would doubt-
less be matched among ourselves were the road to promo-
tion as open. Roche, Humbert, and Pichegru began their
respective careers as private soldiers. Roche, while in
the King's army, was accustomed to embroider waistcoats
to enable him to earn money wherewith to purchase books
on military science. Kleber, Lofevre, Suchet, Victor,
Lannes, Soult, Massena, St. Cyr, D'Erlon, Murat, Attge-
reau, Bessieres, and Ney all rose from the ranks. In some
cases promotion was rapid, in others it was slow. . . .
Ney enlisted at 18 in an hussar regiment, and gradually
advanced step by step ; Kleber soon discovered his merits,
surnaming him " The Indefatigable," and promoted him to
be adjutant-general when only 25. On the other hand
Soult was six years from the date of his enlistment before
ho reached the rank of sergeant. But Soult's advancement _
was rapid compared with that of Massena, who served for
14 years before he was made sergeant; and though he
afterwards rose successively, step by step, to the grade of
colonel, general of division, and marshal, ho declared that
tho post of sergeant was the step which of all others halt
cost him the most labour to win. Similar promotions from
the ranks in the French army have continued down to our
own day. Changarnier entered the King's bodyguard as a
private in 1815. Marshal Bugeaud served four years iu
the ranks, after which he was made an officer. Marshal
Randon, the present French Minister of War, began his
military career as a drummer boy ; and in tho portrait of
him in the gallery of Versailles his hand rests upon a
drum head, the picture being thus painted at his own re-
quest. Instances such as these inspire French soldiers
with enthusiasm for their service, and each private feels
that he may possibly carry the baton of a marshal in his
knapsack. —Self Help, New Edition.

DIRECT COMMISSIONS.—We are requested to
state that from the Ist of January, 1867, until further
notice, the ago of candidates examined for direct appoint-
ments will be from 17 to 20 years for the infantry, from 17
to 22 years for the cavalry, and from 17 to 26 years for
colonial corps.

BANQUET TO MR. BRIGHT.----Mr. John Bright has
consented to receive the address which was passed to him
at a pablio meeting in Rochdale a short time ago at a ban-
quet that is to be held some time in the month of October.
Earl Russell, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. J. S. Mill, Mr. W. H.
Leatham, Mr. E. A. Leatham, Mr. G. Wilson, Professor
Fawcett, and other distinguished gentlemen, are invited to
be present. A spacious mill belonging to the Co-operative
Store, which will accommodate 8,000 persons, has been
secured by the committee to hold the banquet in, and
the interesting event will be on a grand scale.—Manchester
Examiner. - • .

NOTES

FROM
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(THIS DAY.)

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