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No. In.:—An Account showing the Revenue and other'Receipts of til
of the Consolidated Fund for the said Quarter, t,

X 1
Surplus Balance beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter v
ended June 30, 1861, viz. :
Great Britain £ ..
Ireland

Income received in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1861, as shown in Account I. 14,601412
Amount raised per Act 23-24 Viet., cap. 109, on account of Fortifications, &c 240,00
Amount received in the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1861, in repayment of Advances
for Public Works, 4:c.

£15,969,170

Balance, being the Deficiency, on 30th Sept., 1861, upon the charge of the Conso-
lidated Fund in Great Britain, to meet the Dividends, and other charges, pay-
able in the Quarter to Dec. 31, 1861, and for which Exchequer Bills
(Deficiency) will be issued in that Quarter 3,962,612

X 19,04082

erected; but the change of colour in the stone itself
and the fretting out of the surface,' which are
suggested-as the first symptoms, lead us to appre-
hend that there may exist much more mischief
than at present is actually apparent.
" 12. One of the witnesses examined, however,
and whose judgment as a practitial man is of
considerable value, is of opinion that the decay,
after proceeding to some depth in the stones, stops
of itself; that an induration of the surface takes
place, and that no further decay ensues. The
committee would willingly accept this opinion, if
they considered it well founded, but they cannot
conceive that it is true to any considerable extent,
notwithstanding there may certainly be some few
indications which lead to the belief that in some
cases it may be correct,
" 13. At present the decay appears for the most
part on the plain surfaces, while the finer and more
elaborately wrought portions of the building, unless
under projections, are not seriously affected. And
however disappointing and disfiguring these defects
may be, in a building so recently erected, the com-
mittee are of opinion that at present the decay does
not affect the stability of the structure.
" 11.- The cause to which the decay is attribut-
able.

" 14. This part of the inquiry naturally leads to
a reference to the evidence which has been obtained
by the committee on the subject of the stone itself.
The result of this evidence may be thus briefly stated.
The stone recommended by the Commissioners for
this building was that from the quarries of Bolsover
Moor and its neighbourhood, and this stone was
actually contracted for in the first instance. Before
the work began, however, it was found that blocks
of sufficient size could not bo procured from those
quarries, and in consequence one of the Commis-
sioners was appointed to proceed to the spot to ascer-
tain whether other quarries might not be discovered
furnishing stone in beds of greater thickness and of
larger dimensions. These conditions were found in
the quarries at Austen, and the stone of greater
thickness procured from these quarries has been used,
not only in this building, but in all the other build-
ings constructed of magnesian limestone in the
metropolis, after the quarries of Bolsover Moor had
been abandoned for the reasons above stated.
" 15. The recommendation of the Bolsover stone
in the report of the Commissioners was founded on
its similarity to that used in the Norman portion of
Southwell Minster, which were stated in the report
to be in a high state of preservation. Evidence has
since been adduced, in a letter from Mr. Scott, to be
fc and in the appendix, which renders it probable
that the stone of this Minster was really obtained
from the ancient quarries at Mansfield Woodhouse.
The latter quarries were reopened, and a considerable
quantity of stone from them (exceeding 20,000 cubic
feet) was made use of in the Palace at Westminster;
but in their turn they were relinquished from dis-
satisfaction as to the size of the blocks, though we
have it on evidence, confirmed by cur own obser-
vation, that the stone used from these quarries has
stood remarkably well.
" 16. The evidence brought before your Com-
mittee on the subject of the stone obtained from the
Anston quarries is very conflicting ; the contractor
and his principal foreman stating that the stone
was, with slight exceptions, extraordinarily good,
while other witnesses maintain that even in the
quarries themselves there are stones in a state of
actual decomposition ; and one very important wit-
ness, a foreman employed at the Palace at West-
minster, asserts he knew that certain beds in some of
the quarries were liable to decay, and that he aban-
doned them in consequence. With reference to the
selection of stone, the Committee venture to remark
that it is much to be regretted that the offer made
by one of the Commissioners, particularly well
acquainted with the selection and working of stone,
to examine that used in the Palace at Westminster,
for the moderate salary of £l5O per annum, was not
accepted, owing to some difficulty in regard to the
party who was to be held responsible for this un-
important amount, and that the matter was left to
persons who admit they had little or no prior ex-
perience of this description of stone, though they
evidently entertained suspicions of the durability
of some of it which they were employing.
" 17. With reference to the very natural and im-
portant question of the actual causes of the
decay of this stone when exposed to the Lon-
don atmosphere, the Committee take the liberty of
referring to the report of the chemists who were
members of the committee to whom this question
was specially referred, This will be found in the
appendix.

lll.—' The best means of preserving the stone
from further injury.'
" 18. This part of the inquiry referred to the
Committee naturally divides itself into two ques-
tions, namely, as naturally
the steps that have hitherto
been taken, whether experimentally or otherwise;
and as to those that are to be recommended for
adoption hereafter. With regard to the first ques-
tion we have ourselves examined with care the re-
sult of what has. been done at the Palace itself,
either experimentally en the river front, or, as
in the inner courts by actual coatings or wash-
ing over large surfaces. With regard to the
second question, our inquiries have been earnest
and elaborate, and we have examined many wit-
nesses and given much time to the consideration of
the various propositions obtained by advertisement
or others ice, As will be seen in a subsequent part of
finallyera n roe!f ee d
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who were on the committee.

" 19. On the first question; the committee are de-
cidedly of opinion that it is not neussary nor desir-
able to proceed with any general coating, painting,
oiling, or washing of the whole building. It is
quite obvious, in their judgment, that a very large
proportion of the stone does not require any such
application ; but that what is wanted is some effi-
cient process which should be applied to the surface
of any stone that begins to show symptoms of de-
cay, with a view to arrest its progress. The com-
mittee believe that the persons to whom the care
of the building is intrusted ought to watch it, and
note in the very earliest stages wherever decay is
pervptihle by efflorescence, change of colour,
crumbling, or slight decomposition.
" 20. In cases when the decay is important, and
evidently occasioned by the fall of rain on an upper

• Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1861; the Application- of the same ; and the Charge
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Amounts pplied out of the Income for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1861, in
redemption of Exchequer Bills (Deficiency), for the Quarter ended J une 30,
1861, . . 2,065,034

A.mount applied out of the Income to Supply Services, in the Quarter ended Sept.
30, 1861
10,1g5,E35
. .

Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Sept. 30,1831, viz. :
Interest of the Permanent Debt£s,s2B"2
Terminable Debt 053,732
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consolidated Fund
Advances for Public Works, &c.

Surplus Tialanee in Ireland beyond the charge of the Consolidated Fund in Ire-
land, for the Quarter ended Sept. 30, 1861.

projecting or exposed surface, protection should be
afforded by a covering of sheet zinc or lead ; and if
hereafter any composition should fortunately be
discovered by which the decaying stone could be
at once covered or coated, and the injurious influ-
ences of the atmosphere prevented from further
acting upon it, the difficulty would be solved. In
some extreme cases the deaayed stone might be cut
out and replaced by a new one. With regard to
the processes which have actually been applied,
whether experimentally or extensively, your com-
mittee are decidedly of opinion that the discovery
of a proper mode of treating stones in a state of decay
has not yet been made, and there is no evidence
whatever on the building itself to induco them to
believe that the decay, where decay has arisen, has
been arrested, or that permanently the decay has
been prevented by any of the processes yet applied.
"21. With reference to the second question, we
found ourselves unable, after much labour, to come
to any definite conclusion ; and we finally requested
the chemists in the committee to examine and report
upon it ; but those gentlemen state, as appears by
their report h the appendix, that the nature of the
inquiry is so extensive, and that time is so impor-
tant an elemeni in the solution, that they are unable
to give any opinion upon the subject. They further
state that they 'spent five whole days in the exami•
nation of only .ne suggested remedy, but they are
unable, notwitbe.tanding, to give any opinion on
even that one suggestion. They allude to secret
processes, regarding which they say they can offer
no opinion, but they express a doubt of the applica-
bility of any suggestion which would demand the
veil of secrecy for protection. Concurring in this
view, it may be further noted that even if such
applications were found successful in sample or ex-
periment no security would be afforded for a corre-
sponding success in any subsequent large operations.
They recommended that a series of experiments
should be conducted under chemical supervision for
a considerable period of time, and the committee arc
most reluctantly compelled to coincide with them,
and to urge upon the Government the adoption of
such a course.

" IV. ...0 The qualities of the stones to be recom-
mended for future use in public buildings to be
erected in London.'

" 22. On this head of the inquiry the committee
have been unable, in the time allotted to them, to
go into any very extensive examination. It is ob-
vious, however, that although some varieties of
magnesian limestone are an excellent and durable
material, when not exposed to the deleterious influ-
ences of the London atmosphere, yet that in London
it is subject to causes of delay, which render it an
undesirable and unsafe material fOr the construction
of public buildings.
" 23. It is equally obvious that Portland stone,
well selected, has been used in buildings in London
from the date of St. Paul's downwards, under cir-
cumstances of great exposure, and with 'most suc-
cessful results. Portland stone is a material to be
obtained in any quantity and in blooks of any size,
beautiful in colour and texture, reasonable in price,
not by any means so hard as the Anston stone,
and yet with a power of resisting- the influences of
the London atmosphere that leaves but little to be
desired. It must be remarked, however, that Port-
land stone should be carefully selected, an operation
which would be the most satisfactorily effected by
an agent at the quarries.
"24. On this subject the Commissioners could of
course bring much personal experience to btar ; but
after the valuable explanation of the principles upon
which the decay of stone depends in populous
places, as given by the chemists, in their report
before referred to, the Committee refrain from re-
peating those conclusions, in which, however, they
entirely concur.
"25. During the inquiries of the Committee, one of
their members, Mr. Burnell, who is well acquainted
with architectural and engineering works in France,
undertook, at his own expense, a journey to Paris,
to inquire into the practice of the French architects
engaged in the Government works La that metro-
polis. There, the stone used, the 'cilcaire gros-
bier,' though a carbonate of lime of tertiary age,
and therefore of very different mineral composition
from our magnesian limestone of the much older
Permian age, seems to suffer also from decay in a
comparatively pure atmosphere, and where wood is
chiefly used as fuel.
"2G. From the evidence of Mr. Burnell, it does
not appear that French architects or chemists have
been more successfnl than ourselves either in the
use of materials not subject to atmospheric influ-
ences, or in the application of processes for arresting
decay, when it has once begun. The opinions of
the mast scientific chemists and architects in France
on this subject have, however, in this way been ob-
tained, and it is extremely probable that the inqui-
ries undertaken by them, simultaneously with those
undertaken in this country, may hereafter lead to
some successful result.
" 27. The Committee have to thank the Govern-
ment the facilities given to Mr. Burnell in this
important part of the inquiry, by providing him
with an introduction which obtained for him the
active assistance of her Majesty's Ambassador at
the Court of the Tuileries.
"28. The Committee delegated, as before stated,
to a sub committee the duty of examining the various
buildings in London in which magnesian limestone
from the Anston quarries has been introduced in
the external architecture. The report of this sub-
committee forms part of the appendix, and we beg
to refer to that report as confirmatory of our
opinion of the uncertain character of magnesian
lirnrstone, and the risk attending the use of it in
London.

-29. In conclusion, tiv.• Cominittce venture to
recommend that the architect of the Palace at West-
minster, assisted by scientific chemists, should
examine and record the actual state of the stone
work of the building at the present moment; that
experiments should be made by their direction,
under various conditions of height, exposure, and
aspect, with such preservative materials and agents
as the cheroots may suggest from time to time, and
that researches should be continued into the effects
of the various a;kaline silicates, the phosphates, and
other substances which have been brought under the
notice of the Corninii,fee, or suggested in Germany,
France, or elsewhere ; 6,;,4: where decay arises from
damp, tnelas should be taken protect the stone,

. .
A letter from Maritzburg, Natal, dated. August
3, says :—:-The daily life of a colony is usually dtill
and stagnant enough, and certainly that of Natal
i lsrn. oos exceptionfe th
0i.3 th ot of the-generaljolJuly
w as
one
n o rule.o f t
hßou t the
exceptional morn-
ing
days,
by ten 4'
thet
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uonnrc n
keiLna
Lieutenant-governor,
uyt
Governmenttoehanonau dnr tfr.
.e nov
oeo rvfyeerxonpncoierrt wasproclamation
aam officials,dr
aeo tuikos en doaa
nbnndy.
the sound of bugles, the muster of our slender gar-
rison,nounced. the cause of all this bustle and excitement.
that. reports-had-reached him of,threatened distur -
ances in Zululazulcittsequence— .ho-h4d
1.
ordered, the troops to be moved up to Tugela Ithe
northern boundary which forms the frontier be-
tween it and Zululand), as a precautionary measure,
which would, he hoped, allay all alarm among the
colonists, who should have speedy intimation of
real danger.
In the course of the day the garrison of Maritz-
burg, consisting of a wing of her Majesty's 85th
Light Infantry, a few Artillerymen, half a troop of
the Capo Mounted Rifles, and such of the Natal
Carbineers (a volunteer corps) as could be got toge-
ther at to short a notice, left the city, similar orders
having been sent to the handful of the 85th at Dur-
ban, and to the Volunteerßangers at that place and
at Pine Town.
In ail, the force might amount perhaps to 800
men ; small enough, but amply sufficient, in my
opinion, to give a good account of any number of
Zulus that were ever likely to come against them.
But sadly as it may tell against the interest of my
letter, I am happy to state that the gallantry of
our soldiers has not been tested in the smallest de-
gree. When they reached the Tugela those who
were living nearest to its borders asked what had
brought them there, and laughed to scorn the notion
of a Zulu attack upon Natal.
Now that all immediate danger has passed away,
of course those who were the most panic-stricken are
the first to pooh pooh the steps taken by Mr. Scott,
and to declare that the Government was hoaxed.
And yet I have such faith in the sense, prudence,
and coolness of our Governor that I do fully believe
the news he received of this intended attack was
sufficient to justify him not only in ordering up to
the frontier the force at his disposal, but also in
sending down to Graham's Town for additional
reinforcements.
But whether or no, the demonstration on the
Tugela has had the desired effect. If the Zulus ever
did intend crossing that river they have since
thought better of it, their leader Ketchwayo has dis-
banded his men, and they and he have both disap-
peared from the frontier. I trust therefore that no
one in England will be alarmed at the absurd and
unfounded reports that have, it seems, been circu-

lated about us at the Cape, and which may possibly
reach home in some still more exaggerated form.
Indeed, our position in Natal has beea so strangely
misrepresented to the authorities in Cape Town
that they despatched in the hottest haste H.M.S.
Narcissus, with about 500 of her Majesty's 59th, a
few gunners, and about 50 of the Cape corps, who
were all very much astonished, on landing at Dur-
ban yesterday, to find everything and everybody
going about their usual business in that bustling
little seaport. At Gape Town, it appears there were
the most dismal stories going about of bloody con-
flicts between the Zulus and the troops ; of the lat-
ter being hard pressed, the Volunteers routed and
cut to pieces, and I know not what other " shaves"
besides. As I have said, all this is pure invention;
not a single Zulu has ever been across the Tugela,
not one act of aggression by Zulus has ever taken
place, nor have the peace and security of the colony
been int=upted for a single hour.

On none does the effect of all this false intelli-
gence fall more unpleasantly than on the gallant
59th. After a long service at the Cape, and subse-
quently in China, they were actually waiting at
the Cape, for return transports to take them to
England, when they were hurried off hither at a
moment's notice. They have been landed, and are
now, I am told, under canvas at Durban waiting
further instructions. Seeing there is not the
slightest occasion for their services, I can only ex-
press a hope that they maybe speedily re-embarked
in the Narcissus, and that they may soon get back
to England to enjoy the brief respite of home ser-
vice, which they so fully deserve.
But, as there is never smoke without fire, you
may ask me, perhaps, what all this row is about.
The question is somewhat difficult to answer, but I
will try and do so as shortly as may be.

First of all, understand that these Zulus have no
affinity with those against whom England has
waged her former Caffre wars, When the Dutch
boers first squatted in Natal, previous to its exist-
ence as a British colony, they certainly came into
hostile collision with these Zulus, under their then
King Dingaan, and some frightful massacres were
perpetrated by him among the boers. But since
the time when the Dutch deposed this bloodthirsty
monster and set his brother Panda on the throne in
his stead, this Zulu nation has caused us no uneasi-
ness, Panda having been a steady and constant
friend, first of the Dutch boers, and subsequently
of the British Colonial Government. But increas-
ing years have begun to tell on Panda's influence
with his people, and he has been gradually super-
seded by one of his sons, Ketchwayo, who appears
to inherit both the talents and the bloodthirsty dis-
position of his uncle, Din.gaan. Some four years
ago Ketchwayo burnt to death one of his brothers,
and on a recent occasion, when Mr. Shepstone, the
Secretary for Native Affairs, was in Zululand, in
order that he might acknowledge by his presence,
on behalf of the British Government, Ketchwayo's
right to be proclaimed by Panda his successor to
the kingdom, the former took the occasion to
demand from Mr. Shepstone the restoration of his
younger brother, who was sent to us by Panda
himself to save the boy from Ketchwayo's violence.
Of course, Mr. Shepstone replied that the boy
could not be sent back unless his father wished and
demanded it. I ought to mention that this boy,
now about 13 or 14 years of age, has been educated
by the Bishop of Natal, under whose charge he
now is, and it causes Ketchwayo rio small annoy.
ance that a possible future rival to the headship of
the nation is being thus imbued with English notions
and brought up under direct English influence.
It is said that the intelligence of Ketchwayo's
hostile intentions was conveyed to the Government
by Panda himself, and that it was part of his pro-
gramme, having made a strong demonstration on
one part of the Tugeht, to send a trusty band of
well-mounted horsemen across the river, at a point
nearest the Bishop's station, to make a dash at it,
and bear off the boy, whose return to Ketchwayo
would undoubtedly be followed by his being
speedily put to death.
But, apart from the mere family feuds and dis-
sensions of these barbarian potentates, there are
other causes of ill-will against us, and the chief of
these is the refugee question. When the English
came into Natal, now some 22 years ago, the coun-
try, originally thickly peopled by Caffres, was all
bat depopulated by the wholesale mgoacres first

NIU3I.

Now, it rarely happens that a Zulurefugec comesiaz
womenn edgtuoarl t u
across absolutely empty-handed_ lie brings cattle,
et
oemaet
ll.cears
alone,t tcn cows, Not a
pAe.rofrt
ounnl ft rhee.
or his wives and daughters, and among Caffres one
practised
tortures which arc sornet irn,es
to force them into distasteful marriages. Naturally
cilwr:uemenlattlinYe-s'
Ketchwayo, the probable future head of the 2:14:1,
nation, views all this with no very pleasant feeling.
Every bit of property that comes over to Natal is
so much lost to him, because as supreme chief; he is
absolute over the life, person, and property of evciindividual.y
Ketchwayo, therefore, may'havo meditated an in-
vasion of British territory, not •SO rniieh to attack
British settlers its to wreak his 'vengeance au the
„refugee ()tares who are living on the borders of the
Tugela, -Retchwayo, by all accounts, is a blood-
thirsty miscreant, but-there -is no beeclTpain the
Devil blacker than 'he is. And I think. much colour
is given to the suppositiot of his attACk being di-
rected against Calfres rather than white. meaLb.3.---tho-
fact that
.along the Tugela there are hardly any of
the lattee, the district being one of the locations set
apart for exAtaiva.Caffrq-comprition. This at least
it-WrtairttiatAuring, all excitement on our
side' OF the' Tugela none of the English missionaries,
traders, or sportsmen in the Zulu country suffered
the slightest molestation.

Mr.Blencowe, a Wesleyan missionary, who was
aCtually residing at Ketchwayo'Skraal during the
eotr hsil, is
mightis b
quitee
time our men were marching to the front,.reports
that not the slightest stir wasobservable among the
KetchwayO's followers, and that !e had 'about him'
onlympoesysei
lbhyliest, ordinarythe
eudr ruse
perhaps
of
a w retainers,
ilyprobable, 45 r•
that u
savage anxious to throw
dust in the eyes of a gentlemen whose profession
must naturally incline him to impute good rather
than bad motives to his fellow-men. But I have
also been informed, by a gentleman who had crossed.
the Zulu border on a hunting expedition of few
days before the Governor's proclamation was issued
that all the young men were in the kraals as he
and his friends went up the country, and that tho
Zulus only began to musters for war on the same
day that my informant received news from his
friends of the threatened- outbreak, and their re-
quest that he would return at once.
The last mail brought up to Natal the Cape
papers, with the publication of Sir George Grey's
despatches enunciating his policy for the future
Government of Southern Africa. Can these Zulu
savages have possibly heard some vague rumours
of Sir George's annexation views, and have made
preparations for an armed resistance ?
_ _

My letter is already too long, or I should have
liked to give you my humble opinion about annexa-
tion. It may be presumptuous on my part to differ
from so able and experienced a man as Sir George
Grey, but I can only hope that the Colonial-office
will refuse its sanction to his Excellency's sugges-
tions, as far, at least, as the Zulu nation is con-

cerned. Next month, perhaps, I will tell you the
reason why, if you care to have it.

THE CONING NEWSPAPER MILLE-

From the _London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion.)
Prophets in general, and printing prophets in
particular, who discourse on the coming of the
Milleniuin, have hitherto prudently csch:wed
naming the precise day for the arrival of the illus-
trious and felicitous stranger. But therg is no
longer any doubt about it. The unanimous con-
currence of multitudinous oracles of four farthing
omniscience, crying laterally aloud from dead wall
and aloft from house-top, proclaims the Ist of Octo-
ber to be the happy day, whence is to date the
inauguration of the universal domination of
Blue! No, black; inky imps henceforth to count
as archangels of light, each the image and likeness
of Milner Gibson, with duty-free foolscap wings,
aerial as the top-gallant-royals of the Minister's
yacht, wherein he has just returned from gull-
hunting at the Hebrides, to experience how much
more pleasant it is to be haunted by gulls along
the Strand.
Taking time by the forelock, many of these news-
papers individually advertise the gratuitous donation
of gifts, such as maps, pictures, and what nut, each
warranted worth a shilling at the least, in order to
induce the purchasers to expend a penny on that
which is pronounced to be already so irresistibly
magnetic that the proprietor is in a paroxysm of
hypochondria in consequence of inability to supply a
fractional portion of the overwhelming demand;
and it is implied that his friends have to hold him
back by main force lest he precipitate himself under
an avalanche of his own " impression," and be emi-
verted into ajac simile of a pancake, though even
then he would be a rotund and globose body com-
pared to the flats he purveys for. But there is one
present these enterprising and self-sacrificing per-
sonages should forthwith set up a joint-stock bank
for providing their customers—namely, a few hun-
dred puncheons of Old Parr's grinding-young
pills. A. man had need to look forward to the
longevity of Methusalem if he hope to make the
acquaintance of even the names of half the wonder-
ful pennyworths of wit and wisdom now being
thrust upon him. Meadows, acres, pampas of paper
and type for a penny are obtruded at every corner of
every street, from Hampstead to Houndsditch,
where letters are indeed going to the dogs, and the
learned pig who could read would be no phenome-
non among the hog hating though swinish multi-
tude. The old saying that he who runs may read,
is no longer a current truth. He who would now
read what is set before him must prepare for a
nine-hour movement, or rather a nine-hour sit-still ;
happy if he can find a place to spread on his broad
sheet, which is large enough to serve as a table cloth
for a monster pic-nic given by three-and-twenty
paters to four-and-twenty maters familial, and the
little asses respectively, generally disrespectful. Con-
spicuous for its absence in the competitive flourishes
of all these trumpet-braying organs is party spirit,
and political animus of every kind. Not a word
is said about the advocacy of cause, principle,
inte-
rest, nt
teca
rest, or individual. The solitary appeal
lto h
one sordid, grovelling, grubbing,
appetite of this highly-intellectual age, alt-devouringoh.
taining an enormous amount of something that of
for next
to nothing. It matters not that the matter is rub-
bish—that it would be dear at a penny a ton, or tun,
solid or fluid-.—that it is the colourless rinsings of
washed-out trash—only let it seem or sound cheap;
as compared to something else even one degree less
worthless, and lo! forthwith our discriminating
community rush upon the bait, with a Eureka yell,
as if they had carried off the advertised half-dozen
of Ford's 'forty-shilling shirts for thirty-nine and
elevenpence halfpenny, packing-thread and an extra
wrist-button included. Nor is it only in rags for
the ragged that this sort of thing has taken place.
It is the same with magazines. Nearly every
month brings forth a new one, each worse than the
other ; yet every other month gives birth to the
announcement of a meditated novel abortion, mon-
strosity of size being the distinctive feature relied
on for eclipsing its last competitor in the elephan-
tiastis line. This is complimentary to the educa-
tional progress so loudly cackled about, and speaks
volumes, or rather quires or reams, as to what we
are coming to, when even the semblance of words
in the gross is accepted with avidity as the mental
pabulum of a people who once prided itself on the
capacity for and the exercise of independent
thought.

Loss OF ANOTHERHUIL STEAMED! .—lnfeiligenee
has been received I,Y C. M. Nc,rwool and Co , shipowners,
of Hull, informing them of the loas of their splendid new
with four Lu!k-
Ilnitie st,l.lilCl', th,:, Neva. The' ~va, a vso.d of 558 ,ns
ini,ter, built in wt.t.T-tight eampartmants,
which wi I
hs;atls, left Hull on Wednesday morning last fbr Ft. Petcrt-
burg town, with a valuablegenEral cargo, and proceeded all
well until half past 10 o'clock on Saturday morninr, when,
aShea:et. odroN2v7nBst(oOni'alfir
off Niddigens, site was struck amidships on the port tide
gtshbeeri)gToish Hull Steamsvi t h Company,
cargo Pal a yo
i
were fioirtunately got en Loard
wasfrlbo3'on' Ingt
all nie
vie: ) rnc:yoi". fine''' o f the 11.
INNsirid: built grain.thissi)iilg:i' alisnillel:\:rl
earnfidf tthhevcoryeawgew.
she was wa 8
only
struck,h
the H. L. Hvidt, in which the •
vessel having susLtined only Y will
return to Hull, that
Neva was insured, very slight injuries. The