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

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MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament, LONDON,
ADVANCES RUSSELL STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON,
4DVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free
hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay-
able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted.
Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

N°. 23,802.

MISS BRADDON'S FORTHCOMING NOVEL.
.0n October 3, in Three V 015.,.

RUN TO EARTH

WESTO N'S
ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN
Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey.

Last Week of
THE FLYING FAHINIS

WESTON'S

ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN
Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey.

ERNEE CLARKE, the Original Tommy Dodd,
And Miss LOUIE AUSTIN, the Original Impersonator,
Every Evening.

WESTON'S

ROYAL MU-SIC H A LL, HOLBORN.
Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Svreasey.

THE JUVENILE ACTRESSES
Every Evening.
Free List entirely suspended, Press excepted,

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Special Notice:n Thursday next, Sept. 24, great Attraction,
for the Benefit of the Flying Farinis.

HALL.

CANTERBURY
Sole Proprietor, W. HOLLAND.
The Sensation of London, the Great Wonder, NIBLO, on the
Plying Trapeze, on two bars only; performance surpassing the
great Masters by throwing double somersaults; the greatest feat
ever performed by any artist in the world —in addition to George
LeYbourne —The great Fred. French —Miss Hetty, Tracy, Serio-
Comic—lir. Hamilton, the eminent Baritone—Engagement of
the Wondrous Arabs (from the Crystal Palace)—E. Hall and
Christy's Little Bob in their Comic Entertainment—Liskard—
The grand Wmkin BALLET, introducing Mdlie. Carle, Lilley
Carle, Herr Carle, and Mdlle. Burlet—Oceana on the Invisible
Wire.

Special Notice.—ln consequence of the immense success of
Nino the free list is entirely suspended, the press excepted.

Manager—fir. James
Musical Director—Mr. Jesse Williams.
Stalls and Crystal Saloon, is.; Area and Balcony, Gd.
Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8 o'clock.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-OPEN EVERY
EVENING for Instrumental Music and Dancing.—The
Rooms have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. Rubardt
and Co. The celebrated Band will perform during the week
an attractive Programme of Operatic Selections and popular
Dance Music.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, ls ; Balcony, 2s.
WINDMILL STREET, PICCADILLY. •
Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI CURTI.

IWADAME I USSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Biker-street.—A PORTRAIT MODEL of ALEXAN-
DER MACKAY, the Norton-folgate murderer, has been added
to the Room of Horrors. Admission, ls.• Children under ten
Years of age, half-price. Extra Rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m.
till 10 p m.

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remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache,
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delicate constitutions, especially adapted for Ladies, Chil-
dren, an infants.
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NAV.I.L AND MILITARY INTELLIGE..NCI.

MALTA, Sept. 17.—Her Majesty's steam sloop
Antelope arrived from Corfu on the 11th with de-
spatches, mails, invalids, and prisoners from the
squadron, and this morning her Majesty's ship
Endymion arrived from Augusta Bay in Sicily,
where the fleet was left yesterday. The letters by
her are not yet delivered. It appears that their
stay at Corfu was only a few hours, in consequence
of the prevalence thereat of smallpox. The New-
port surveying vessel left yesterday for Sicily, to
resume her labours on the south-west coast. The
following is taken from the Malta Times of Thurs-
day, Sept. 10 :—" We wonder what the French,
Italian, and Spanish sanitary authorities will think
of us when they hear that we have given the sfratto
.—we believe there is no English ward for it, but
by circumlocution it may be said to be, to send to
the right about'—to a Spanish ship which bad
arrived from the West Indies in 46 days, because in
Matanzas, where she had loaded, there was yellow
fever and cholera. The Joven Antonio left Ma-
tanzas with a cargo of sugar for Malta, and arrived
here with no sick on board, and without having had
any illness during the voyage. She had a foul bill
of health, and there seems to be no doubt that both
cholera and yellow feverexisted at the port of load-
ing. Immediately after her arrival the Board of
Health was convened, and what was decided did
not transpire, for no public order or notice was
issued, but the ship was ordered to leave the har-
bour. The captain urged that he had no provisions.
A respite of a few hours was granted, and on Tues-
day morning, Sept. 2, the ill-starred ship, after
having been for 46 days at sea, again left, bound,
we believe, for Marseilles. But this is not all. The
Joven Antonio was sailing away bound for Mar-
seilles, certain of receiving a less unhospitable re-
ception, and was scarcely out of sight, when the
Spanish ship Palma entered the great harbour laden
with a cargo of sugar, from Matanzas, which she
had left contemporaneously with the Joven An-
tonio. She had originally taken on board, besides
the sugar, some rum for Marseilles, and having dis-
charged the rum there performed the usual quaran-
tine (five days), changed her papers, came to Malta,
and was received in pratique. Now it is well worth
asking, what do sanitary boards aim at—forms or
facts ? If the Joven Antonio had touched at Mar-
seilles and spent a few days there before coming
to Malta, would she have been in reality less dan-
gerous than by coming direct to Malta and remain-
ing a week or so in quarantine here ? And if the
Palma had come direct, could not she have per-
formed her quarantine in Malta, and must she per-
force be turned away ?"
The Russian frigate Alexander Newsky, 51,
Capt. Kremer, left Plymouth Sound on Monday
morning for St. Petersburg. Prior to her departure
his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis, ac-
companied by Admiral Posiet, visited and inspected
her Majesty's new armour-plated ship Northumber-
land, 24, Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8., in Plymouth
Sound.

Tile armour-plated screw steam corvette Pallas,
6, Capt. Edward H. G. Lambert, at Plymouth,
received her powder on Monday, and is now ready
for sea.

The Prussian training brig Rover left Plymouth
on Monday for the Mediterranean.
The crew of the Northumberland, 24, Capt.
Roderick Dew, C. 8., were inspected on Monday by
Port Admiral Sir William Martin, K.C.B.
A revised code of regulations, approved by the
Secretary of State for War, has been promulgated
at Chatham for the guidance of all persons employed
on board her Majesty's store department receiving
vessels for gunpowder and ammunition, and in la-
boratory craft used for the conveyance of the same
from the receiving vessels. The regulations direct
that all persons employed in the receiving vessels,
barges, boats, and magazines are to change their
outer clothing—viz., coat, waistcoat, trousers, cap,
and shoes, and will wear the suits specially provided
for them. The change of clothes is ordered to be
made in a shifting-house specially provided, where
the ordinary clothes will be deposited. Smoking is
s:rictly prohibited, and any man found with a luci-
fer match in his possession will be instantly ciis-
missed. No fire is, on any account, to be allowed
on board any of the receiving vessels, barges, or
boats, all of which are to be kept scrupulously clean
and free from all loose gunpowder. In shipping or
unshipping ammunition or gunpowder, tanned
hides or wadmiltilts are to be laid over that portion
of the vessel over which the cases or barrels pass,
and a red flag is to be kept flying when there is any
gunpowder or ammunition on board the receiving
vessels.

Detachments of 42 non-commissioned offizers and
men of the Ist battalion of the Bth (the King's)
Regiment, and 46 men of all ranks of the Ist bat-
talion of the 14th Regiment, will proceed from
Chatham garrison this morning to Gravesend, where
they will embark on board the screw steamer Brenda
for Malta. Lieut. M. Stourton, Ist battalion of the
Bth Regiment, and Lieut. J. Laing, Ist battalion of
the 14th Regiment, will embark with the troops.
Yesterday afternoon Major-General F. Murray,
attended by his personal staff, left Chatham and
proceeded to Gravesend, to make an official inspec-
tion of the Brenda previously to the embarkation of
the troops.

An order was yesterday received at Chatham
directing 42 non-commissioned officers and men of
the Ist battalion of the 14th Regiment, and 15 men
of the 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment, to pro-
ceed from their respective depots on the 30th inst.,
to embark for Bombay to join the service com-
panies of their corps. The officers ordered to em-
bark with the troops are Captain G. H. Cope,
14th Regiment, and Ensign A. G. Bridge, 10th
Regiment.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Staff Commander William P.
Braund to the Northumberland ; Lieut. Archibald
L. Douglas to the Cambridge ; Lieut. J. W. Ram-
say to the Galatea ; Lieut. C. C. P. Fitzgerald,
Lieut. E. G. Hulton, Lieut. J. A. T. Bruce, and
Lieut. R. T. B. Bruce to the Excellent, for the
Hercules ; John W. Nelson, engineer, to the Fis-
gard, for the Vivid ; Wm. Miller, engineer, to the
Black Prince, for the tenders ; and A. G. Woods,
naval cadet, to the Forte, as supernumerary.

ETON COLLEGE.—The long vacation closes to-day
(Wednesday) with the arrival of the lower boys at the
college. The fifth form will return to Eton to-morrow,
and the sixth form on Friday. _ _

After the withdrawal of the French expedition
from Mexico several Frenchmen found their way into
California, and have there proved valuable settlers in cul-
tivating the vine, to which they brought the knowledge
acquirel in the greatest vine-growing country of the
world. " There are thirty millions of bearing vines in
California, with a capacity of fifteen millions of gallons of
wine and one million gallons of brandy, which at the
lowest estimate represents a yearly value of $8,000,000,
with groat increase where there is a market. The large
sum paid for foreign wines and brandy renders it desir-
able to encourage and foster this important branch of
domestic industry. It is pointed out that few countries
have climates adapted to the vino, and that its cultivators
can reasonably expect a more certain return than from
other agricultural operations. A great desire i. expressed
in California for au organized effort to establish central
wine factories for buying grapes and making wine, and
for disseminating information abroad on the inducements
offered by that State."

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)mporary has the following :—Before
lies yielded to Mr. Scndamore's wooing
terly over tho probable sufferings of
aph companies should bo no more. That

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 aro dependent for late news will
soon bo 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 oLly
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 principle,
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 lute-
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 pre siC.en t,
the chair was taken by Mr. Read, M.P. Amcngst the
delegates present were—Mr. E. W. Moore, Farringdon
Chamber; Captain P. G. Craigle, North 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 meting includel 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 MI rket Pi 1, lo_ al taxation,
county financial boards, rural education, evil 1 )ymeet ( f
women and children, the game laws, talent-right, wh'o'a
have been, or are likely to be, before Parliament. Tee
formal adoption of the address having been moved : 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 to agriculture,
it was stated by Mr. ALbs that the Sunderland Chamber
had addressed a number of pointed questions to the can-
didates of the district.—Mr. Moore, Farris. g 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 discretio), 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 Lottom of the scale of income as P: rliameet
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 rased 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 representatit n of
the ratepapers is fairly adopted ?"—The resolution
found a seconder in the person of Mr. Russell
(Worcestershire Chamber), an 1 was supported by
Mr. Ford, who state 1 that the Warwickshire Chamber
had adopted a series of elm )st similar ertestioes. The
North Riding Chembe-, it was announced by Captain
Craigie, had last Saturday considered the questions
brought forward by Mr. Andrews, and had agreed to sup.
port the first and third, but for the second La 1 substi-
tuted the following :—" Are ,Feu prepared to support
a parliamentary inquiry as to the unfairness of
the exemption from local taxation of income arising
from personal property?"—Mr. Clarke, the secretary of
the Central Chamber, strongly deprecated turning the
address into a mere categorical document. —Mr. Latti.
n.o.:e (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 injudicic u —The Chairman also held the
view that it would be detrimental to the interests of the
chamber to agree towany string of inquiries. Each
chamber would have its own subjects of special import.
ante.—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, " a system 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 Chamber ; and
that provincial chambers should be requested to circllate
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 Chambei ), met with little
support, but it was arranged that the secretary
should call the attention of kericultuists 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 (o: respondents in every poor-law
union.
This brought the e ,Ling to a close.

The Belgian Tir National was opened on Sunday
without ceremony, and on Monday the firing points were
crowded all day. About 100 British volunteer riflemen had
arrived. The fetes in celeLration of the thirty-eighth anni-
versary of the National Independence commence ou Wed•
nesday, and will be continued 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 prccarioui
of health of the Duke do Brabant.

THE ECLIPSE IN IN D/A.. —Men jug to the
eclipse, the Mitrodaya (a vernacular Bombay paper) says
"The scene in the native town was curious. Alen 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.' The hallalcores, who
are the dregs of the native olnn.ua received charities
of gold and silver, copper, and clothes of various kinds,
The ignorant thought that the e sweepers had the efficacy
of freeing the sun from this torment.

MR. JOIIN 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
borough, 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 applauded, rmd
the same compliment was paid to hid a he left,