The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-23 00:00:00

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!'HE nag, ..131OMITTOR.

An evening contemporary has the following:—Before
the telegraph companies yielded to Mr. Scudamore's wooing
they lamented bitterly over the probable sufferings of
the press when telegraph companies should be no more. That
provincial newspapers throughout the United Kingdom did
not seem to care, but ungratefully petitioned Parliament in
favour of the Government bill, was one of those things which
no director could understand. Nevertheless, the provincial
newspapers appear to be still cheerful and resigned. As the
companies upon whom they are dependent for late news will
soon be purchased out of existence, and the Government will
not, of course, act as news collectors, the provincial journals
of the three kingdoms have formed a strong organisation for
their own supply of news, relying on the Post-office only
for its transmission. This is a very natural and, from a
public point of view, a very desirable arrangement. There
are many obvious reasons why the collection and trans-
mission of commercial and political news should not be
dependent upon individuals or upon companies working
for a profit. We see that the company now being
formed is based upon the co operative pr:uciplo,
and that the shareholders will take nothing by way of
dividend, but will benefit, if at all, by a reduction in the
rates or an improvement in the quality of the
news supplied to them. This provision should give to the
Press Association an influence and weight which otherwise
it could hardly hope for; and the fact that its members be-
long to all parties in politics, and that it has no private inte-
rents to serve in'the news it will transmit, must be an addi-
tional public security.

CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE.

A meeting of the Central Chamber of .Agriculture was
held at the Salisbury Hotel, Fleet-street, London, on Tues-
day. In the absence of Mr. Jasper Moor, the president,
the chair was taken by Mr. Read, M.P. Anicngst the
delegates present were—Mr. E. W. Moore, Farringdon
Chamber; Captain P. G. Cr:A'gle, Ncrth Riding of York-
shire Chamber ; Mr. Wall, Worcestershire Chamber ;
Mr. John Ford, Warwickshire Chamber ; Mr. Abbs,
Sunderland Chamber ; Mr. Read, Norfolk Chamber ; Mr.
Rigby, Cheshire Chamber. ; Mr. Chandler, Wiltshire Cham-
ber; Mr. H. Andrews, Somersetshire Chamber; Mr Straton,
jun., Monmouthshire Chamber; Sir Mordaunt Wells,
Peterborough Chamber ; Mr. Pell, Northampton Chamber ;
Mr. Lattimore, Hertford Chamber ; and Mr. Wilson,
member of the council of the Central Chamber.

The preliminary business of the me :ling included the
election of Mr. J. Knowles, of Taunton, as a member
of the council, the passing of a vote of thanks
to Mr. 'Wilson for his services in connection
with the meeting of the Chamber at Leicester
during the week of the Royal Agricultural Society's show,
and the appointment of the next council meeting for the
Tuesday in the Smithfield week. A. suggestion made at
a meeting of the Newton Abbott Chamber, Devonshire,
to the effect that members of any chamber visiting
other towns should be admitted to the meetings
of chambers held in the places so visited, but without the
liberty to vote, was fully approved, on the motion of
Captain Craigie, seconded by Mr. Byron. Provincial
chambers having been invited to send in to the secretary
subjects for discussion at the meetings for the ensuing
year, the Secretary read a lengthy manifesto addressed to
members of chambers,embodying the resolutions which have
been passed by the council at various times upon questions
such as the Foreign Cattle Merket Pi 1, :0:1.1 tcxatron,
county financial boards, rural education, cm' 1 .ymeet of
women and children, the game laws, t,nant-r:gbt, wh ca
have been, or are likely to be, before Parliament. Toe
formal adoption of the address having been moved t.n 1
seconded, the meeting proceeded to the discussion of its
component parts. In reference to the introduction, which
dealt with the necessity of members of provincial cham-
bers using every effort to ascertain the views of parliamen-
tary candidates upon subjects of importance t) agriculture,
it was stated by Mr. Abbs that the Sunderland Chamber
had addressed a number of pointed questions to the can-
didates of the district.—Mr. Moore, Farriug lon Chamber,
was of opinion that, while it was a matter of imperative
necessity that the various provincial chambers should unite
for the purpose of protecting and advancing the
interests of agriculture, it would be unwise for them to
become merely political associations. Mr. Andrews
(Somersetshire Chamber) proposed that the address should
by supplemented by certain questions to be laid before par-
liamentary candidates. He moved, as a rider to the address,
"That, without attempting to pledge gentlemen who are
candidates for seats in Parliament, or to unduly interfere
in elections, this council submits that the following ques-
tions may fairly be asked. Local chambers may add
others at their own discretion, but the important subjects
to which these questions refer are before Parliament
and the country, and the poor-rate assessment question
underlies many others :-1. Are you disposed to vote for
a Foreign Cattle Market Bill, well calculated to prevent,
as far as possible, the reintroduction of the cattle plague
and other contagious diseases? 2. Sul j .ct to such exemp-
tions at the Lottorn of the scale of income as P: rli:tment
may determine, are you prepared to support a bill for the
assessment of all income to a common fund for England and
Wales for the relief of the poor, and for the other
purposes to which the money now 1-a's:a by the p )or-rate
assessment is applied, and thereby remove the unfair
exemption of income arising from personal property? 3.
Will you support a bill for county financial boards, in
which the elective principle and representation of
the ratepapers is fairly adopted The resolution
found a seconder in the person of Mr. Russell
(Worcestershire Chamber), en 1 was supported by
Mr. Ford, who state 1 that the Warwickshire Chamber
had adopted a series of aim ist similar questions. no
North Riding Chembe e it was announced by Captain
Craigie, had last SaturCay considered the questions
brought forward by Mr. Andrews, and had agreed to sup-
port the first and third, but hr ti e second 1 a 1 substi-
tuted the following Are y( u prepared to support
a parliamentary inquiry as to the unfairness of
the exemption from local taxation of iivome arising
from personal property? '— Mr. Clarke, th,.. secretary of
the Central Chamber, strongly deprecated turning the
address into a mere categorical document. —Mr. Latti-
Iscre (Hertford Chamber) was of opinion that if it were
decided that fixed questions should be issued, they should
be very carefully considered by a committee specially ap-
pointed for the purpose.—Sir M.Wells deemed the adoption
of any precise set of questions to be asked of candidates
would be highly injuilici( U 3. The Chairman also held the
view that it would be detrimental to the interests of the
chamber to agree to any string of inquiries. Each
chamber would have its own subjects of special import.
ance.—After some urther discussion, the adoption of the
introduction to the address was unanimously carried. The
rider of Mr. Andrews was negatived by 15 to 6.
When the body of the address came to be discussed, it
was urged that the term " equitable system of tenant.
right," which was employed, might lead to some miscon:
ception, and should be substituted for another; and, at
the suggestion of the chairman, "asystem of compensation
for exhausted capital," was the one selected. The
remainder of the manifesto was then adopted, and
resolutions passed to the effect that twenty-five copies
should be sent to each chamber or branch chamber, and
two copies to each member of the Central Chamhee ; and
that provincial chambers should be requested to eircalate
the address by placing the same in the hands of all par-
liamentary candidates and other means.
A proposition that the Central Chamber should recom-
mend some systematic organisation of county chambers,
to include the various parishes, broached by Mr.
Andrews (Somersetshire Cl'amlysa ), met with little
support, but it was arranged that the secretary
should call the attention of kr:cultu ists in
the provinces to the importance of giving in their ad-
hesion to the chambers in their neighbourhoods, or of
establishing chambers where none at present exist, and
should form a list of correspondents in every poor-law
union.
This brought the t e king to a c: ,3e.

The Belgian Tir National was opened on Sunday
without ceremony, and on Monday the firing points wore
crowded all day. About 100 British volunteer riflemen had
arrived. The fetes in celehration of the thirty-eighth anni-
versary of the National Independence commence on Wed-
nesday, and will be cottinaed till Saturday, but a gloom is
cast over all the proceedings, and the preparations are made
in a half-hearted way in consequence of the prnarioui sta o
of health of the Duke do Brabant.

THE ECLIPSE IN IN DIA. —Referring to the
eclipse, the 3/ itrocla ya (a vernacular Bombay paper) says :
"The scene in the native town was curious. Men and
women in their half barbaric and shabby dress were to be
seen going from one temple to another to pray the deity
to go to the help of the luminary of the day in his duel
with the headless giant, Rahn.' Tl:e hallalcores, who
are the dregs of the native oninualy, reccivad c:ntrities
of gold and silver, copper, and clothes of various kinds,
The ignorant thought that the c sweepers had the efficacy
of freeing the sun from this torment.

MIL JOHN BRIGHT CLAIMING A VOTE. —Mr.
John Bright attended, a day or two back, the county
registration court held at Rochdale, before Mr. Cole,
revising barrister, to make a reclaim for property, for
votes for himself and his brothers, Mr. Jacob and Mr.
Thomas Bright. In consequence of the extension of the
btrough, the Messrs. Bright were obliged to put in a new
claim in order to reclaim their county votes, but the pro:
ceeding before the barrister was a mere matter of form,
As Mr. Bright entered the court he was applanded, aud
Plc same CmPlimentlYas Pai4 M h 4 left,

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining.
Tins EVENING, at 7, A CHARMING PAIR. After which, at 8,
AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Nr. Vining, Mr. Walter
Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murray; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore,
Maclean, Holston; Miss Trissy Marston and Miss IloseLeclercq.
Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Tins EVENING, THE MARRIED RAKE. After which, at 7.45,
MACBETH. To conclude with THE LYCEUM REVELS.
Messrs. Fairclough, Lr.wlor, Marston, Neville, Addison, Terry,
Templeton, Travers, Anderson, Clifford, Evans, &c.; Mrs. Sid-
ney, Miss C. Parkes, Mrs. Vandenhoff, Aliss Addison, Minnie
Sidney, Annie Goodall, &c.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30. SISTERLY SERVICE. • Dlessrs. Bel-
ford, Harcourt; Miss E. Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH
OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria
Long:nor°, Newton, B. Goodall. MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE.

QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE.
Manager. Mr. W. H. Liston.
Tnrs EVENING, at 7, THE TROBADOUR: Mr. L. Brough and
Miss Montague. And THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs.
Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton, and S. Emery;
3lesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.
Under the Management of 3liss Fanny Josephs.
Tuts EvEstsG, at 7, MISCHIEF MAKING: Nle,srs. Drew,
Howard; Mesdames Turner and Challis. At 8, BLOW FOR
BLOW: Messrs. Honey, Cowper, Haynes, Arthur, Westland, and
!Mesdames Foote, Weather:;by, and Rignold.

BOYALTI"f HEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss 11 Oliver.
THIS EVENING, at 7.10, MARRIED DAUGHTERS: 3lessr3.
D.ty, Itnsse!l, and Dewar; Mesdames Thompson, Bromley.
a 71,1 M. Oliver. BLACK-EYED SUSAN: Mr. Dewar, Mr. Dan-
vers; 1113 s Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To conclule with
THE MIS CRESS OF TEE MILL.

PRICE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
UnciPr tho l‘r,tn tgernf,nt of Itii,s; Marie Wilton,

Tins EvzsiNG., ATC4II! ant Montague;
IMis,es Add!son and A. Wilton. Alter which, SOCIETY: Messrs.
J. Han.. If. J. Montague, Blalzeley, Montgomery, and
I',neroft; Mrs. Buokinghs:n Waite an 'l Miss C. Addison.

F,OYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Lessees, MessE4. Shepherd and C'rosw;clc.
Tiara EVENING, A DAY AFTER. THE WEDDING. At 7.45,
i) it a 'IS AND WATER RATS: Mavis, Mr. Creswick;
Jo.ia.-1. Mr. Shepher.l; 3lessrA. E. F. Edgar, Vollaire, W. Crosby,
%. •11,,b,0u: Hiss Pauncefurt, Miss Elizabeth Webster, :Hiss E.
Lenuard. With TURN HIM OUT.

1,./YAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
THIS EVENING, Frank Pastor, the Champion Amer:can Eques-
triau; M. Napoli, M. Lozada, and Almm:i and Delevanti. Oura.
who eclipses Leotard. t•ainwell's wonderful Performing Dogs.
Al 'red Bradbury; Mdlle. Montero, eb;c. commence at 7.011.

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