The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, Tai UI*SDA • EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1868.

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For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
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The " ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents
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PREMIUMS in 1867 £460,553

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JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in Loudon.
August, 1868.

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railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class,
285 fr.

CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR SAN PAULO
DE LOANDO.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, f-ept. 1, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that on TUES-
DAY, the 29th inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready
to treat with such persons as may be willing to CON-
TRACT for supplying and delivering on °ail her Ma-
jesty's Steamships and Vessels at San Paulo do Loando
all such quantities of
. SMOKELESS SOUTH WALES COALS

as may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for
Twelve Months certain, from the Ist of April, 1869,- and
afterwards, until the expiration of six months warning.
A Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contra t may
be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's De-
partment, Admiralty, Somerset house.
No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day
of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends,
or an agent for him duly authorized in writir•g.
Every Tender must ho addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for Coals for San Paulo de Loando," and must also
be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-Gemi-
ni!, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter
signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering in the aunt of ..VittO for
the duo performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

CON TRAC r FOR FLOUR AND, CONES FOR THE
ROYAL HOSPITAL AT GREENWICH. .
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
liotte,. 2d Sept., 1868.
rHECOMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING- the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
22d inst., at half-past On, o'clock, thfly—Witt be rea4yOtt.,
the Office of the Director-General of the Mectcal Depart-
ment of the Navy, Somerset House, in London, to treat
with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for
the supply of all such quantities of
FLOUR AND CONES

as shall from time to time be required for the use of the
Royal Hospital at Greenwich, under a Contract for Six
Calendar Mouths. •
The Flour t, be manufactured in the best manner, from
sound English Wheat, of the best quality, and to be of the
description known as "Best Whites ;" the Cones also to be
of the best quality, and samples (one pound of each) must
be produced by parties tendering.
The Contractor will be allowed the use of the Hospital
sacks.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.

No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application at the Department of the Medical Director-
General, Admiralty, Somerset House, or to the Steward at
the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, where also the condi-
tions of the Contract may be seen.
No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock
on the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that
the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should
attend at the office on the day of Contract, as the result
of the offer received from each person will be communi-
cated to him in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for Flour and Cones," and must also be deli-
vered at the Medical Department, Somerset House, signed
by two responsible persons engazing to become bound
with the person tendering in the sum of £5OO for the due
performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. •
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing;
370 children.

£l5 will keep a boy or girl for and year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn. and 41, Lothbury, I 5 .C. ~• and by
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NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
sTheobjec and practical object of theCpharcuea
Charity is
instruction tostgiveenin orphan gins a plain Eng-
lish education, the
kitchen,
house,
and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other'
wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.
The Committee e.rnsstly appeal for support. The Charity, is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGKOTE, Treasurer
W H. WAFWICK Secretary.

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
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For Fallen Women.
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to wn. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
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St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhuret-hill.
Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover.
Temporary Homo-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be bad on application.
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TOOTH PASTE is greatly anperior to any tooth
1
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.namel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames-street London.

BARRACK CONTRACTS
Fur the Supply of
PAILLASSE 'STRAW
IN GREAT BRITAIN.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W.,
Ist September, 1868.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Secretary of State
for War is prepared to receive Tenders for the supply of Straw
for Paillasses at the various Barrack Stations in Great Britain,
for a period of One Year, from the Ist November next.
Tenders will not be entertained unless made upon the prcper
printed Form, which may be obtained, with every requisi, e in-
formation, upon application at this Office, or to the variols Bar-
rack Masters, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock each day,
Sundays excepted.
The Tenders must be sent to this Office, addressed to the
Director of Contracts, marked on the outside, "Tender for
Paillasse Straw," on or before Saturday, 12th inst., after which
day ~o Tender will be received.
The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of rejecting
any or all of the Tenders.

THOMIS HOWELL,
Director of Contracts.

ANFIELIYS PATENT PICKLES are per-
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and wholesale of JO EIN BURGESS-and SON, 107,
Strand (corner of S:wvoy.stops), London.

WHY- incur the risks of Limited Liability, by
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Lists post frog, on appliation at the Company's Ware-
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14R. e.SKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, the Author
of "PURE DENTISTRY, and What it Does for Us,"
"PA[NLESS TOOTH EXTR kOTION, or Anesthesia Locally
Applied," "DENTAL SURGEERY—a Practical Treatise," &c., &c.,
may be Consulted Daily as hitherto from to to 4 o'clock. at his
ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE (a
few doors from Bond-street).

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Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopos, 4s Gd per 1,000
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 3s
COLOUR 'TA <IPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
Au ILLU TR %TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
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tationery, Cabinets, Postage tales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling
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SAUCE.—LEA and PERRINS'
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
This delicious condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs
"THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE,"
Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS.
The public are respectfully cautioned against worthless
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are on wrapper, label, bottle,, and stopper.
ASS for LEA and PEURINS' SAUCE.
Sold wholesale and for export by the Proprietors, Wor-
cester; Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell ; Messrs. Barclay
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universally.

nR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DEN ris r, 52,
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JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid
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in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price.
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FETES 1N THE ALPS.
(From a Correspondent of the Times.)

LION, Monday Morning.
Sarcastic remarks have been made on the Eng-
lish custom of celebrating everything by a dinner.
Unfriendly critics have gone the length of saying
that if London were destroyed we should comme-
morate the event in some newly-found Freemasons'
Tavern, or go down the river and condole with each
other over a dish of whitebait at Greenwich or
Blackwall. It must be owned that with us public
dinners are an institution; but it is a fact that on
have, if not exactly the, same
kind of thing, something analogous to it. They
the Continent they
go much greater lengths than we do in connecting
pleasure with business. A. fete is with them an in-
evitable concomitant of any commercial or social
movement in favour of which it may be desirable
to secure public approbation. If we open a hun-
dred miles or two of railway, the directors invite a
company to be passengers by
the first train, a din-
ner is given at the terminus, and there is an end of
the whole business of inauguration. To-thy ten
new miles of an iron way have been opened in the
Canton of Valais, and the fetes to celebrate the
event commenced on Friday night, and will not
terminate for some days to come.
It is right, however, to at once premise that those
ten miles form part of an undertaking of even more
than European importance. They are a portion of
a line which is to give a direot railway communica-
tion between Paris and Milan via the Simplon Rail-
way, and which, its projectors state, will form part
of the highway between England and our Indian
empire. The scheme has the approval of M. Les-
scps, the pr.,jector of the Suez Canal, who regards
it as a supplement of his own plan for shortening
the overland route to India, and I think I have seen
enough within the last few days to warrant me in
saying that the Simplon Railway is not regarded
with any disfavour by the French Government.
The whole affair is essentially French. The de-
monstration now being made in its favour was
actually commenced in Paris, and has been carried
on till, in the midst of the Alps, and at many hun.
dreds of miles from that city, it has its culmination
under circumstances altogether unparalleled in the
history of commercial enterprise. The company
which has undertaken this work is styled " La
Nouvelle Compagnie Anonym de la Ligne Inter-
nationale d'ltalie par le Simplon." For some time
it has been in possession of a line well known to
tourists in Switzerland—the railway from Bouveret,
on the south-east extremity of the L tke of Geneva,
to the town from which I now write. From here
the company intends to carry the line through the
distract between this point and Brieg, thence
through the Simplon, and on to Arona, in Italy.
To-day an advance. has been made on the road
Brieg as far as Sierre. Henceforward travellers to
the Simplon or to Zermatt may go ten miles fur-
ther by rail, that being the distance in English
measurement from Sion to Sierre. Brieg is over
23 miles beyond the point to which the railway has
now been carried, and Brieg must be reached
before the Swiss end of the Simplon can be entered
upon. Already there is a railway over Mont Cenis,
and one is being tunnelled through it. For a long
4ii Iry tilguel gig §t. 110

been talked of, and now we have this plan o
one by the Simplon. I shall reserve for a future
letter some remarks on the comparative merits of
the competing schemes. As the ceremony of inau-
guration to Sierre did not conclude till past mi '-
night, and as this communication must be pox e 1
at the railway statim by 4 o'clock this morning, I
must for the present confine myself to what I have
been witnessing during the last two or three clays.
The directors of the company were very liberal in
their invitations to.the inauguration fetes, which,
according to their letter, were to commence at
G.;neva on Saturd ty forenoon, immediately after the
arrival of the express from Paris due in the former
citeeat 11 o'de:ie. Very many of the invited hid
left Paris on Thursday or early on Friday morning ;
but, perhaps, no larger number of persone ever de-
parted from any station in a train of exclusively
first-class cert.:ages than that which aesernbl,el at
the Paris terminus of the Lyons Reilwey on Friday
evening. Geneva is a favourite spot with tourists
about to enter Switzerland, and the season for Swiss
tom. is now at its height. Tie.re was, therefore,
a rush of ordinary travellers on Friday night ; and,
in addition, there were sonic hundreds of the in-
vited coming to assist at the fetes. The train was
of immense length, but all the passengers were
seated without noise or confusion by 20 minutes to
9, the hour of departure. We got_off to the /blunt.,
arrived at Macon at 6 o'clock on Saturday
morning, only a very few minutes behind the time
at which we were due there. But there was a rather
ludicrous circumstance in connection with our arri-
val and appearance at Macon. The night had been
very hot, and one window at least in every carriage
had been left open. When we entered the refresh-
ment-room at Macon everybody began to stare at
everybody else, and every one to laugh at his or her
neighbour. Had we descended from chimneys we
could not have been much more sooty. We looked
like a monster party of sweeps out for a holiday.
The fuel used all night by the locomotives which
drew the train must have been of the most abomi-
nably dirty character. We discovered that it had
done the mischief. Probably the Lyons Com-
pany had been trying an experiment with some
new kind of charbon. If so, it is to be hop el they
will not repeat it without due notice to pas-
sengers. We reached Geneva at 11 o'clock,
Geneva time, which is ne irly 20 minutes in ad-
vance of that of Paris; and it was arranged that
the whole of the invited should leave for Bouveret
at half-past 12. Precisely at that hour the steamer
which was to convey them left the north quay.
The point of departure was close to the splendid
bridge called after Mont Blanc, and near to the
Isle of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The Simplon, the
steamer fitted up for the occasion, was radiant in
brilliant flags and steamers, and as she left her
moorings and got out into the middle of the lake
she was saluted by a long and continuous cannon-
ading from the steamers lying on the south quay,
the usual place for departure and arrival for
steamers traversing the lake. The Simplon re-
turned the salutes from miniature guns placed both
on stem and stern. A capital band on board com-
menced its performance, and the guests cheered
"La Ligne d'ltalie." Nearly all of them were
French. The journalism of France was largely re-
presented among the visitors. The French, and
especially the Parisians, are not a travelling
people, and very many of the gentlemen on board
the Simplon had never been in Switzerland before.
It need . hardly be said that, apart from its trans-
cendent beauties, the Lake of Geneva had peculiar
interest for them. The words of Voltaire,
" Mon lac est le premier," were quoted more than
once ; there was anxious gazing at the island
of Jean 'Jacques, and‘when this was no longer iu
view we had a general look oat for the _portion of
the shore near which the villa of Madame de Steel is
situate. In order to give the invited a full view of
all that is to be seen from the lake, the Simplon
crossed and recrossed from the north to the south
sides. A great portion of the latter is French ter-
ritory since the annexation of S ivoy aid It
is now in the department of Haute Savoie. Even
any 2ne previously ignorant of that fact might
easily have surmised it 3 esterday. At the French
landing places everything and every one, the gen,
darmerie included, were in gala .tarticare---Tha
übiquitous eagle was on all sorts of standards and
flagstaffs, and as the Simplon passed an extraordi-
nary quantity of powder was exi,ended in doing
honour and wishing God-speed to the French
company now about to peaceably invade Italy:•
The villa of Prince Napoleon Jerome is on the
north side of the lake, which is all in Swiss
territory. I believe the Prince is not in Switzer-
land at present, but in and about the beautiful
little rustic residence of Count Walewski, near the
extremity of the French territory and close to the
margin of the lake, there were greetings. Sa-
lutes were exchanged as the steamer passed, and
a number of ladies stood on the balcony of the
villa and the grounds surrounding the house.
There was not Ling, however, like a spectacle till
the Simplon, crossing from the Castle of Chalon,
approached Bouveret, closely followed by another
steamer belonging to the company, and which had
kept along by the south bank. This second steamer
also sported the French and Swiss colours in pro-
fusion, and was plentifully provided with little
broadside guns. As the two boats neared Bouveret
salutes were fired fram different points up the
mountains which tower over the town. 1n some

cases one could see neither the guns nor the men
who fired them. The report and the red glare
which followed it appeared here and there in
situations where one might least have expected
them. The shots followed in rapid though irre-
gular succession, and were echoed and re-echoed
with marvellous effect through the giant chain of
Alps leading up to Mont Blanc. it was now past
six o'clock, and the setting sun coloured the stir-
face of the distant waters with an azure hue •of
exquisite beauty, while the portion shaded by the
mountains retained that light blue colour which
forms one of the most striking characteristics of

Lake Leman. The station at Bouveret had been
converted into a vast summer-house in the
midst of a well-planted garden. Fir trees and other
evergreens had been removed from other places,
and brought to that spot for the occasion. A special
train was drawn up in front of the station. The
locomotive was so decked out in garlands that
nothing but the top of its funnel presented the or-
dinary appearance. Immediately behind the en-
gine was a large waggon got up as a bower, around
which were fruit trees and creeping plants. In this
a band was stationed. From Bouveret up to Sierre
the country forms a portion of the Canton of Va-
lais. At Bouveret there was an official reception
by the local authorities, who warmly congratulated
M. La Valette, the president, and the other mem-
ber of the council of administration of the railway
company. When the congratulations had been
gone through, the party of travellers entered the
train, which left the station amid a flourish of
trumpets and the loud and repeated acclamations
of a dense crowd of the inhabitants. At all the sta-
tions on the way to Sion the pcip. ulatioits hail
turned out and awaited the special train. By the
time we had reached Mouthey, the second on the
route, it had become dark, but the station itself
was illuminated with oil lamps, and improvised
trees, which had been planted in front of it a few
hours before, were hung with coloured 1 Limps.
Across the road was an arch of Mkgreens, from

which Chinese lanterns of various colours were sus-
pended. As the train entered the station the band
played " God save the Queen." Why oar national
sßthem was chosen know not, but probably it was
because her Majesty is Sovereign of British India.
We all descended at Mothey, istfrettite was a de-
monstration in favour of France.- ghouts of 44 Vice
la Prance 1" were followed by cries of " Vivent les
Parisians complicanir which worked the
Vidtqf Up tg Oglost pitc4) of %Swim. They

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PRIM. . 4d.
STAMPiD sd.

responded with " Vice la Sa&se !" The tunnel
through which we entered St Maurice was illutni-
nated with a suddeness and effect which drew forth
the warmest expressions of admiration. At one in-
stant Use subway through the mountain was green,
next it was red, and then green again. Every stone
of the great cavern was visible with startling dis-
tinctness. At St. Maui ice there were more illumi-
nations, more salutes, and more fireworks; but at
Sion, our destination for the night, a torchlight pro-
cession was added to give variety aid still greater
dramatic effect to the reception of the Simplon
company in the Canton of the Valais. When the
twin pulled up at this station there were the in-
evitable compliments and congratulations between
the town, In represented by the principal authority,
and the rail way company, as personified by M. La
Valette. Then a small regiment of hardy moun-
taineers, walking two and two, andeach carrying a
blazing torch, preceded a procession of the leading
inhabitants and the directors of the csnapaay.
Some hundreds of visitors, each attended by a porter
or two carrying baggage, brought up the rear.
There was not, a vehicle of any kind to be had ; so
that we were all processionists whether we liked
it or not—and many of us did not like it—over
a very dusty road of three-quarters of a mile in
length.
But all all this feting was only a lasAingsup to what
has been done to-day. It may safely be said that
to-day's fetes have been perfectly unique. Never
was any other railway inaugurated as the line be-
tween Sion and Stern has been. No such inaugu-
ration could be held anywhere but in the midst of
mountains like the Alps ; and when the only other
Alpine line was opened, that over Mont Cenis, the
ceremony was performed in a style that had no
pretensions to amazing effects such as those accom-
plished to-day. The special train by which the line
was to be opened started from here at about one
o'clock, and arrived at Sierre in a little more than
half an hour. All the way from Sion the new line
runs through a country abounding with magnificent
scenery. There are lofty ranges of mountains on
either side ; those to the right are covered with ver-
dure nearly to the tops ; those to the left are sub-
lime in their enormous height and savage desola-
tion. Several of them were capped with snow even
yes*.erday, after a long continuance of hot wea-
ther, and when the sun was positively of scorch..
ing heat. There is an easy incline all the
way to Sierre, but the station lies in a
valley surrounded on all sides by gigautic
mountains. The neighbourhood of the little town
is always picturesque. Yesterday it was much
more so than usual. The canton of Switzer-
land is having its Tir at Sierre, and there is au en-
campment all about the shooting-ground. The
green slopes rising from the valley were dotted all
over with little white tents, and M. La Valette and
his company had come in to assist Nature and the
Tir in making still more picturesque one of the most
beautiful spots in this most beautiful country. The
president of the railway administration and his col-
leagues contrived a spectacle which carried one back
to the Middle Ages, and at the same time kept him
ever conscious that he lived in the engineering period
of the 19th century. The locomotive was brought to
a stand some 300 feet short of a canopy raised on a
little green mound. The canopy was formed of
wood work, concealed by foliage, amid which fruit
and flowers of various kinds were placed as if they
had grown there. Beneath the canopy sat a '
venerable-looking old man, with white linen flowing
down on his shoulders. He was arrayed in the full
pontificals of a Roman Catholic bishop. Around
him stood the canons of his chapter with their scarlet
rochets and white surplices. This was the Bishop
of Sion, who was in waiting to bliss the locomotive.
Swiss soliliers, rifle in baud. kept guard near his
chair. When the persons who had been conveyed
by the train were lot down at a pavilion erected for
'the banquet which was to come off in the evening,
and when the indispensable via dionuettr hal neon
disposed of, a gun was was fired, and the engine,
having blown a shrill and triumphant whistle, al-
vanced at a slow pace till within a few feet of
where the bishop was seated. Mouseisueur then
rose and, with his mitre on his h ad and his pastoral
staff in his left nand, advanced to the front of the
canopy, where he delivered a really eloquent ad-
dress. With much fot ce he alluded to many of the
scientific improvements which-have been made la
our own day, and expressed the delight he felt at _
seeing the progress of intercommunication between
the different peoples of the earth. He regarded the
fact that be bad been selected to pronounce a bene-
diction on the engine as an act of faith on the part
of the company—an acknowledgment before all
men that God is the Lord of Science. In conclu-
sion, he said he hoped that no intercommunicadon
with other people would ever make the inhabitants
of the Canton of the Valais cast off their simplicity ,
of manners, impair the faith, or diminish a patri-
otism for which the Swiss were pre-eminent. The
Bishop then read the prescribed prayers, and,
sprinkling holy water on the engine, pronounced a
benediction upon it and all the vast assembly who
witnessed the ceremony.

There was now a general movement to a pavilion,
triumph in its way. A large
which was a perfect tril
wooden roof, supported at the corners on natural
trees, some light woodwork outside, a gallery and
tribune within, a fountain paying in the centre,
evergreens, flowers, fruit, inscriptions in all direc-
tions, tables for between six and seven hundred
people. This was the structure and its ornamenta-
tion, but no pavilion ever stood in a grander spot.
From which ever side of it you looked there were
the lofty Alps, range behind range, at but a
short distance. In your immediate neighbourhood
the Swiss valley, with its green slopes and quaint
chalets, and the white huts of the riflemen. There
were other tents about, too, in which the peasantry
were in irking merry while awaiting the unrivalled
illumination in the evening. The dinner was so
plentiful in viands and wines that after the
650 guests had been entertained a banquet for
all comers was carried on for several hours after-
wards.

What the name of the caterer may be who
managed this in the midst of the Alps, with only
the resources of a village near at hand, I do not
know. I think some of our London dinner con-
tractors ought to try and find it out. He might
give them a useful lesson. Soup, fi.h, awl meats
were served up hot, and there was coffee equAl to
what is to be had at the best cafes in Paris. An
exuberance in speaki,lg followed dinner, each orator
as the Parole was gr tilted t.) him mounting a tri-
bune much higher than a c,,urch pulpit. [ should
not, perhaps, omit to mention that among the toasts
was " The English Press."

The illumination commenced as soon as the even-
ing had become dark. A signal gun having been
fired, a shower of rockets was sent up from au open
space in front of the pavilion. For au instant this
attracted the attention of a vast concourse of people
which had by this time assembled in the vall-y.
When the light of the rockets hal died away great
was the astonishment of the stran:ers an 1 enthusi-
astic the admiration of all to find that the Alps
Viemselves were illtuninatel. Fires burnt on some
of the highest peaks ; fires blazed on the sides half-
way down ; and the flames of huge bonfires as-
cended from the base of the chain of tremendous
mountains enclosing the valley. In another second
fresh rockets shot up from the front of the pavilion,
wheels of coloured fire flew round and sent red
sparks and spangles in all direction ; cannon
boomed, volleys of rifles were fired, bands played,
and men and women and children joined in wild
acclamations. The effect was absolutely magical.
Ilia wonderful illumination continued for more
than an hour, and must have been seen at places
many miles distant from Sierra.

An exclusion to the pass of the Gemmi is the
ant oatry in tlao prozrAuwe of those ycluarhable
fetes.

The subjects for discussion are divided into four depart.
ments :-1. Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law ;
president, the Right Hon. W. N. Massey ; and the special
questions for discussion are arranged under three sections,
viz,: Section A, International Law ; Section B, Municipal
Law ; and Section 0, Repression of Crime. Of the.
Department of Education Lord Lyttelton is the president,
and the special questions for discussion refer to the question
of making primary education compulsory, the means for
instruction in science and art, and the improvement of at;
two universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Of the
Department of Health Dr. Rumsey is president, and the
special questions for discussion refer to -the administra-
tion of public hospitals, the functions of medical officers
of health, and the relation of water supply to health in
towns. In the fourth department—Economy and Trade--
the subjects of an international coinlge, arbitration be-
tween masters and workmen, the administration ( d out-
door relief, and the social results of the employment of
girls and women in 'manufactories will come under dis-
cussion.

TILE ANGLO-DANISH TELEGRAPH,

The Northern Daily Exi-ress states that on Tuesday

morning, about eight o'clock, two steam-vessels arrived
off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea ; the names of the vessels
were tin Archimedes and the Chevy Chase, and they
brought to our northern coast a submarine telegraph
cable that is to connect England and Denmark. The
cable belongs to the Danish, Norwegian, and English Tele-
graph Company, of Copenhagen. The cable has been
made by the well-known cable manufanteers of the
Teams, near Gateshead, Messrs. IL S. Newvall and Co.
Therein a particular fckture 111 6ble, and that is, tht",..,
core made by Mr. W. Hooper, of London, is of an india-
rubber insulation. This is the first time indiarubber has
been applied to such a purpose for any long distance, and
so far as tested it has worked wonderfully. It is coiled in
tanks on board both ships, on the principle of Messrs.
Newall's patent. The length of the cable from Sondervig,
near Rinkjobing, Denmark, to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, is
about 340 miles. The Archimedes and the Chevy Chase—
the former a vessel of 1,000 tons burthen, belonging to
Messrs. Watts, Milburn, and Co., Blyth, and the latter.of
about GOO tons burthen, owned by the Tyne Steam. Ship•
ping Company —left the River Tyne on Monday week,with
the cable on board. Mr. R. S. Newall (the mayor of
Gateshead) went with the cable for the purpose of
seeing it properly laid out, testing the insulation,
&c. He was assisted by his electrician, Mr. Buifieb.
They had a smooth passage, and by quick steaming
they arrived off the Danish coast on the following
Wednesday. On Saturday morning they left Christian•
sand, proceeded to the coast off Sondervig, and suc-
ceeded in landing successfully the shore end of the
cable. They were joined, on the Danish- side, by Messrs.
Madsen and Lorenzen, gentlemen officially connected with
the telegraphic service of the Danish Government. They
then steamed direct towards the North Sea, laying out
wanadtea featsting wonderful to p
the cable. Theylaying
rosteamedatful a cablelspeedall the
y—at
the same time. In such cases half-speed is adopted, and
it is very rarely that this is gone beyond. The owners of
the vessels may well feel giatified at the result attained.
In returning, the weather was fine, and the cable
was paid out very successfully. While off Newbiggin on
Monday night the sea was so rough as to make it impos-
sible to splice the mid-cable to the shore end. They buoyed
it at a distance of ten miles from the shore, awaiting
favourable weather. Directly the cable is laid a message
of congratuation will be transmitted to Denmark. Arrange-
ments have been made to commence business operations
at once. The company has arranged with the United
Kingdom Telegraph Company to work the traffic in this
district, and a wire will be immediately fixed from the
Newcastle station to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. The land
lines from Newbiggin to Newcastle belong to the Danish,
Norwegian, English Telegraph Company (Limited).
This company will work the traffic between Newbiggin
and Newcastle, and within a few days stations will be
opened at Cramlington, Bedlington, and in the course of
time, no doubt, at other places in the district.
Messages will be received in Newcastle at the post office,
Quay-side, and in the respective post offices at the other
places mentioned. The transmission from the cables will
be effected by means of Professor Wheatstone's automatic
instruments. These instruments " consist principally in
the mechanical transmission of signals by means of con-
tacts given by series of perforations in bands of paper
previously prepared and drawn through the manipulator ;
the signals being printed by the recording instrument."
The speed in transmission, it is expected, will be great.

Sir Robert Phillimore has returned from abroad
in excellent health. It will be remembered that he met
with rather a serious accident a short time ego.
SmALLrox AMONGST SIIEEP.---The Board of Cus-
toms have issued directions that sheep which are detained
for slaughter at the wharves at any port under the provi-
sions of the Order in Council of the 20th August last, be
submitted to a daily inspection by the veterinary surgeons.
This order has been deemed necessary in consequence of
the report from the veterinary department of the Privy
Council, to the effect that where a number of animals are
collected together cases of smallpox appear day by day,
and that unless- there is constant supdvision the meat of
diseased animals will certainly be sent to market.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH RUSSIA
AND THE EAST.—We have ' authority for stating that
arrangements are being made by the Danish, Norwegian,
English Telegraph Company, of Copenhagen, to extend
the telegraphic communication to the East, by laying a
cable from Denmark to Russia.. By this means tele-
graphic communication with Russia can. be had direct
from Newcastle-on-Tyne and the North, through 'the
cables of the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph.
Company, instead of by the circuitous and necessarily
expensive route as at present. The advantages of such a
cable to the commercial and political world will be very
great, and it is to be hoped that success will attend the
efforts of this company. The cable will, in all probability,
be laid this year.—Northern Daily Express.

HOSPITAL For. ANIMALS. —A bazaar has been
held at Southport, in aid of the Southport and Lancashire
branches of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., who had been
announced to take the chair, was unavoidably absent, and
much disappointment was also experienced that Mr.
Gladstone, one of the patrons of the society and a con-
tributor to the bazaar, and who is now the guest of Mr.
Weld Blundell, whose seat is in the neighbourhood, hail
not found it convenient to attend. It was stated in the
course of the proceedings that the sum of £30,000,
bequeathed by the late Mr. Brown for the purpose of
founding a hospital in London, specially for the treatment
of animals, was in the hands of the University of London,
and that the hospital was about to be erected.
THE COOLIE TRADE.—From Macao there are
details of another terrible tragedy, the natural result of
the accursed coolie trade. Free emigrants do not mutiny
on their way to the land of their choice. File emigrants
never set fire to the ship in which they are cooped up,
never doomed themselves on the wide ocean to a certain
and most terrible death. S,la,ves alone do these things.
Men driven to desperation by their enforced removal from
their families and homes—men tortured and driven, men
condemned to a life of labour, or to a speedy death_ in a
strange land—overworked, ill-fed, subject to punishment,
without pay or prospect of return— these are the men who
plunder, burn, and destroy, who, like those on board the
ill-fated Thdrese, make twenty fruitless attempts to
mutiny before the one that brings with it a fatal success—
who massacre at one blow three-fourths of the crew of
.their prison, force the captain by blows and threats to bear
them back to their native land—who, utterly demoralised,
fight recklessly among themselves till one-half of their
number is gone, plunder the ship of all its wealth, and
leave it almost a wreck at the first friendly land they comp
to.—China Overland Trade Report, July 24.

THE RATS IN THE MINE. —A miner of the
Imperial Mine of Gold Hill, Nevada, publishes in a paper
of that locality the following rat story. He says : "It is
not generally known, except in mining localities, that rats
inhabit the mines, but such, however, is the fact. From
the top ground down to the lowest levels they are to be
found in our mines. Some time since the Imperial Com-
pany stopped work at the lowest level for several days to
repair the shaft just above it. After resuming work, the
carman, who was the first to go below, went clown alone
to run out the ore from the chutes, and as soon as the
rats heard the old familiar sound of the car rumbling
along the track, they rushed out from behind the timbers
to welcome the presence of man once more. They ran up
to the carman in squads, climbed all over him, then down
to the station floor again, and scampered and gamboled
around in ecstasies of unmistakable delight. When he
started for the chute again with the car, they ran follow-
ing and playing around him, and when he had filled his car
with ore and started back again for the shaft, they (the rats)
sprang upon the car and ran all over it, and jumped and
leaped as if mad. The carman cat down a moment to see
what they would do, when they all huddled around and
=rover him without the slightest apparent fear, and with-
out . 1-Ing to bite him. He did not hurt any of them,
as lie i! they could live in such a place he felt in duty
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TFt E SUN, _LONDON, Tll URSDAY
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~.... uIFEBOAT SERVICES.-During the Storms of Mr. BRIGHT, and the terror be evinced when the LATEST INTELL CGENCE CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, THE TUGBOAT AND THE TARA.
E MOSES and SON,
.1.1 the past year the National Lifeboat Institution. c,:n- fuss
was made about Mr. Disnam,' educating his . •
. ----------- iributed to the saving of 1,086 lives from vzt, ions ',lop-(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ----......
wrecks and 36 vessels from destruction. The Institution party, the hons member for Birmingham not
-_—_—....— _ (FROM ALLEGED INHUMANITY.
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
7% rERCHANT TAILORS and OUTFITTERS. alsoEt expended. £31,845 in the same
.period on its Liteboat
wishing the spread of knowledge to extend too far The charge of inhumanity made against the master of
_ln ablishments, in addition to grantig earnestB for rewards. ' AMERICA. PARIS, WEDNESDAY, September 0. the steamtug Constitution by Captain Armstrong, the
h ich remainsv ar
various
on ly
alarmist topic
rumours o f discussion
caused
The Committee of the Institution etly appeal to the in that direction, as he wished the Conservatives to
public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 10. only survivor of the ship Tara-one of the many vessels
OR ALL CLASSES. heavy demands on their 187 Lifeboat Establishments. remain in the bliss of ignorance rather than the ThelPeexaccieteomr-ewnatrw"
The National Steamship Company's steamshipwrecked off the mouth of the Mersey during the
Contributions will be thankfully received by the London •
folly of wisdom. the Bourse has not yet subsided. There is no further sudden and disastrous gale on the evening and
• and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Denmark, from New York, arrived off this port at
• which was caused by the report of difficulties with Italy.
decline in the funds ; but there is no recovery of the fall night of Saturday, the 22nd August-was informally
EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. 2 a.m. She landed passengers and proceeded for investigatedat the held on Wednesday
It was only to be expected that the redoubtable inquest
PRICES BASED IEADY -MONEY eeef -T e
) tss,"?.__ -;- . cab strike would come to an end before the close of Liverpool. All well.
The note, believed to be couched in pretty strong terms,
which has been sent from the Cabinet of Berlin by the Liverpool coroner on the bodies of Kinsella,
the chief mate, and Cobbett, one of the seamen
SYSOTENM. 1 ,--ai, 7.... g.
, ,1(-41-k:C' -1' lilt the week ; and, accordingly, this morning our old
siseg e to that of Holland respecting the rupture of nego- of the ill-fated ship. Captain Armstrong's allegation was
444 FRANCE.
1\ HE ADVAN FAGES of the READY-.MONEY 1 . friends the cabmen were at their posts again, and
. PARIS, Sept. 10. and warlike manifestations at Chalons, serve to,
tiations relative to the navigation of the Rhine that when the hawser by which the tugboat was attached
to the Tara parted in a very early period of the gale, he
i SYSTEM cannot be better expressed than in the following
extract from a leading article in the " Times:"- The Illoniteur of this morning states that at the
- Everybody knows the difference between a credit and a L02,7D01V, THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1868. restriction indeed has been placed upon the action maintain the depression in the barometer of nations- begged the master of the tug to pay out another, or stand
ready-money business It is this partly which affords one tailor ------0.---- Camp of Chalons, on Tuesday last, numerous ex- • •
financial affairs. But reports yesterday pointed to a by the ship in her perilous position ; that the latter
the excuse for charging £7 7s. for a coat while another will of the men which is useless and harassing, and will
charge £4 45. ..It is true that every tradesman ought to Lord AMBERLEY seems likely to be very busy e• p rimental trials of artillery were made in the pre-
charge military conspiracy at the camp of Chalons, and refused and steamed away, leaving the ship to her impend-
abate his charg,es to customers who pay him punctually. Still during the election time. Ile has replied to the only serve to annoy and inconvenience the public.
so that in a descent to a note between Prussia
.• a compromising manifesto from France to Prussia ; ins fate of driving on one of the banks, which she after-
Bence of the Emperor. The infantry were also put
Nee know how in this particular we all suffer fur a few delin- We hope, therefore, that the foolish and profitless wards did, with the melancholy result that all on board
quents." resolution which the late Radical meeting in Not- through some manoeuvres, at the termination of and. Holland, and a rumour of excitement at (21 souls) were drowned except Captain Armstrong. In
- .
LL GOODS INIARKED in PLAIN FIGURES tingham adopted. In this he was informed of the the cam we may be p,said to be getting on answer to this the engineer of the tugboat stated on Wed-
A- station until further notice will be abandoned
regret experienced at his determination to resign way •
which the Emperor left the encampment and
very nicely, and may hope for smaller things nesday that nothing more could have been done to save the
inspected the corps of ambulance and other military • • •
after a very brief experiment. Yesterday it became
_. yet. The liability of mankind to panic is one of the ship or the lives of those on board, as Captain Armstrong
"mr--1 MOSES and SON. the representation of the borough. According to establishments. His Majesty met everywhere with strangest of mental phenomena. That journalists refused to be towed back to Liverpool, and, owing
evident that the drivers would not hold out much should
r-I •
• longer. Those
ADDRESSES BELOW. and indeed his definition of the task he has setA review of the troops in camp will take place ' invent rumours when none do arise, is quite intelligible. steamer must have been dashed to pieces had
owner and driver, and who had only themselves to
himself is more in accordance with what we might But that commercial men should allow themselves to be she approached nearer the ship than she did.
to-day.
please, were not likely to keep on virtually refusing influenced by reports which have been repeated a thousand A contemporary states, however, that in the very worst
EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. expect from an experienced politician or a veteran g-steamers, with a prospect of making good sal-
MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke statesman than one young in the ways of Par- money, for it was no secret that the cabs which
as follows .-- should rush to sell, even at a loss, as if an enemy were at vage, go out from the Mersey to pick up the vessels in
E• Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, were out reaped large harvests. Then, again, the closed •
Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters liament. Without any disrespect, i•t would 41- per Cent. - Bank Shares 3170 - the gates of Paris, would be ridiculous if such panics did distress outside, and they have frequently been known to
for all Classes. nly have been wiser in Lord AMBERLEY to small proprietors found the strike a costly amuse- 2End of month... - - Ital'an Loan
Every article the best of its kind in Material, Style, and certai
ineut, and seized the first opportunity for returning 3 per Cent
70 50 End of month... - - Beyond these reports, rapidly diminishing in gravity, thus been able to rescue by means of small boats.
Workmanship. have remained where he was instead of End of month-. 70 no Mexican Loan ... 23 50 there
F. ,r JUVENILES' there is a distinct department, containing an are no facts to guide one to a solution of the war Another question incidentally came up in the course of the
unequalled assortment of Clothing for every occasion. The seeking to create a position in a new place. " In- to the old ways. As so many cabs had begun to Credit Mobilier - Do. Bonds
End of month... 288 ••• Spanish Threes - - question ; though to make up for this deficiency there are inquiry, and it was stated by the pilot who took the vessel
most Fashionable Styles are combined with the best Materials show themselves
volved as lamin an arduous struggle for the pro-Credit Foncier -1137 - Rome Debt abundance of articles in the newspapers. The Constitu- out, in reference to it, that the crew of the Tara were not
and Workmanship.
List of Prices, with rates of self-measurement, Patterns and ,where they gers of the strike that further efforts were useless. End of month... - - Deferred
of Liberalprinciplesin district
motion
Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-freeRAILWAYS. Cash
The railway companies, in fact, as the public had afterwards expressed surprise that it should have produced vessels going to sea. The jury returned a verdict to the
Every article is marked the lowest price in plain figures, from have been long under a cloud, having had to con- . Orleans
which no abatement can be made. most Seen all through, were too strong for the cab trade, Northern . llBO such an effect. The France publishes a lugubrious rate- effect that the deceased were found drowned ; they can-
Any article not approved of will be exchanged, or the money tend with manifold difficulties, and to meet the . Lyons and Mediterranean
will be returned. with caluin- and there was little doubt but that they would pro- . Southern.... 586 do for fear of French intervention. The Siecle believes to the part taken by the tugboat in the disaster, but they
E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are Closed every unscrupulous efforts to overwhelm Me
Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when
nioas
accusations," writes the noble lord; and vide some means for their own benefit and those of Western
Eastern • • 585
566 that the Eastern question has been reopened through did add a presentment to their finding, to the effect that it
business is resumed till al o'clock. American intermeddling. The Americans, by the way, are would be better for vessels to lie in the river at least one
The following are the -London addresses of E MOSES and really when we look at the plaintive recital it seems their passengers if the pressure went on. The sardinian
Austrian
SON:- drivers, too, began to suspect that the masters
1:35, MINORIES strange that he should voluutarily have thrust him- Lombard 415 oppress humanity ; and we may possibly hear before long crews. This was, no doubt, founded on an infe-
-156, MINORIES self into such an awkward undertaking, and take would take care to reap the profits of the change ; North of Spain
Saragossa
80 that poor Mr. Seward had a share in the late Servian rence to be drawn from Captain Armstrong's
117, MINORIES and the additional charge made by the owners of Roman 39i tragedy. The current number of the _Revue des Deux Mondes evidence, that, had his crew been more sober,
83, A LDGATE upon himself so many grave responsibilities. As has some sensible remarks on the war question, showing he might have got more canvas set on his vessel.
84, ALDO AT E a general rule, it is always safer for a member to the privileged cabs during the late strike must have that the armaments of France must be intended either for or let go his anchors before she struck, thus giving her a
81, ALDGATE confirmed these apprehensions. At any rate, the POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. war or snot less injurious ostentation. Th
83, ALDO ATE stop where he is known than to rush into untried G 1 R • chance of riding out the bale, as did another vessel not far
e o os, a ussian
87, ALDGATE grand assembly of delegates and drivers yesterday, -• journal, contains an article to show that war is inevitable off-the Queen of Beauty. It should be added that the
places where he cannot be sure of the reception he
88, ALDO-ATE MARLBORoUG-H-STREET. and that the French Government is at fault. The topic engineer of the Constitution declares that his boat remained
if in Oxford-street, arrived at the conclusion that
89, ALD,.;ATE may meet with. We should not be surprised OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULTS.-Lewis Ford, a rough- is everywhere the same, a few of the Prussian papers near where the Tara was last seen by those on Loard for
504. NEW OXFORD-STREET work had better be resumed on the old terms, with . • .
bee NEW OXFORD-STREET the end was that Lard AMBERLEY lost what he is looking young fellow, describing himself as a alone preserving a tone of dignified reserve. It may be some hours, until the rising tide enabled her to recross the
saa, NE OXFORD-STR EET seeking, and then, too late, regrets the venturous the solitary exception of plying at the ranks in the labourer, and residing at No. 110, Whitfield-street, asked, if war is inevitable why should the fear of war be bar and enter the mouth of the river with safety.
1, HART-STREET vicinity of the railway stations. This is probably Tottenham-court-road, was charged before Mr. allowed to work its ill effects a dozen times before hostili-
2, HART-STREET step he took, but he may at least gain wis loin from ties commence?
3, lIART-STREET the experience thus received. Although some time only a form of letting down their pride by a gentle Knox on a warrant with assaultins
a Edward and
Dr. Ndlatonandthe • •
137, TOTTENHAM-COMIT-ROAD it would be Caroline Greener, residing at No. 31, Bolsover-
BS TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD will yet elapse before the dissolution addresses are declension instead of a rapid fall, since
no ing for Count von Goltz, the
street. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. ,
283, EUSTON -ROAD. . impossible to maintain such an exclusion. If a fare
multiplying, and meetings are the order of the day- Prussian Ambassador. The accounts of the state of the
Mr. Greener said that on the 25th of August he
cancerous disease from which the a • • '
Country Branch ; orders a cabman to drive to a railway station in the able diplomatist has Extreme Sea
19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. in all directions, it may be said that the speeches was coming through Fitzroy-square, and a little in been suffering have been more unfavourable of late, and Thursday, Ha I F. I I
2(), BRIDGE STREET, BRADFORD, YORE.S. delivered on the whole are moderate in their tone course of his journey, the driver would put himself
advance of his wife and a female friend, when he there is e' N ery reason to fear that all hope is at an end. Sept. 10, B. T. ~c, 0 W. Ito F. D. wR. to
•8 a in 1::::Pil 12 9
in a very awkward position by refusing to go there.
SPECIAL NOTICE. on both sides, and that the speakers have not at allsaw the prisoner and another man coming along, The Marseilles strike was entirely a question of wages. - . • -- --,---- I
In consequence of frequent misrepresentations, E. MOSES
and SON find it necessary to state that they do not ornplo3' followed the example of Mr. GLADSTONE in his If public vehicles are sent into the streets to ply and, as he noticed that they were drunk, he walked Last Saturday, when the printers took their weekly pay. IrtierAeen .. 3330:12g: 254L21 S. 1 1 S.S.W.sinaln. = 1
any travellers or agents, and that their only Establishments for hire, it rests rather with the magistrates than on to the kerb to avoid them, and as he was doing
meat, they made a final declaration-not the first-that - -
Shields . ._. i'2:El: 53 2g 5.W..1 .s.w. c.b. - 2
are the above-mentioned. opening oration at St. Helen's. The leader of the they would not work at the same rate. The em- Scarborough 30'331. 59 54 5.W.8.. 2 3 S. c.b. -
• Opposition was anything but guarded in his lan- with the masters to decide whether they shall be so the prisoner gave him such a violent blow under
ployers would not grant the increase,•
and accordingly, on Yarmouth . 30•30 f 61 59 E.N.E. 4 5 S. c.b. - 3
COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED " permitted" to enter the railway station. If the the ear that it knocked him into the road, and his
guage, and threw down the gauntlet in his most Monday there was no paper, or next to none. This euxhnieces • - - - - - - -
VICTUALLERS.arm was Before he could get up he Skudm
he did not seem togive much
FIT E only article really suitable for that purpose, imperious style, but prohibition is intended only to refer to the cabs re- injured.
saw the prisoner striking his wife, and she fell to seilles.
was felt to be a serious inconvenience in a place like Mar- Ardrossan .. 30'24f. 59 57 S.W. 3 2 W. c. - 3
Greencastle 30 20f. 53 52 IV._ 1 3 S. c.m - _
-I- Sc. Cal. i•or dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address satisfaction to those he addressed, to judge from maining on the ranks near the stations, we seer.- ie
the ground, and was much injured, her eye being printers' strikes
The public nowadays must have newspapers ; but
generally fail because other men are to Holyhead .. 3023 f. 56 55 E.S.E. 1 1 E.S.E. c.m - _
Liverpool 30•30 f 58 54 5.E.3 2 S.E. c.b. -
103, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. Valentia ... 30'241.. 56 53 S.S.E.E 2W. c.b. - 2
the change that so soon followed in his tactics. head that the interests of the men will be found too blackened and her mouth cut. be procured. In this case the compositors seem to have Cape Clear.. 30'18f. 58 57 *E. • 3 18 N.E. c.b. - 2
' - Little or no good can be gained by the infusion strong for the prejudice of the masters, and that In answer to Mr. Knox the complainant said he been unable to keep the field clear, and the journals are 1 Penzance°c l'e's r ..t 33811 f. -61 59 N.W.. 12 2 E.S.E. c.b.cle 7- 3
GLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED they will be glad to make up for the money knew nothing of the prisoner before, and that di-
• being reissued. Plymouth .. 30'23f. 60 57 Z. 0 5 E.S.E. m.b - I
of so much bitterness of spirit in the shape of Wey mothh 3016 f. 59 38 ?9 E. b. - 5
VICTUALLERS, 78. 91 PER DOZEN. len nd his The Government affect to be very confident in the result P°r tth 30'26f. 60 55 E. 3 6 E.N.E. . - 2
WILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., No. 105, on the other hand they have lost during these idle days by
temporary advancement ;while, . s rectly after the prisoner had assaulted h a
of the Var election, but the Opposition leaders are equally '9l3neVrils isi i EN: 57 L2l E.N.E.. 2 4 N.E. inc.l!):-_—_ --s
wife 1 • d b his companion
Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No- 5, the tone of public life is lowered by it, ani the turning their titne to the best advantage. Neither he ran away, accompanie y - ' certain of a result in their favour. The candidature Brest - 2
L'Orlent - 2
The Pavement, Clapham-common. . and although he followed him, and told a police- M. Dufa . Rochefort
general interest of the community sacrificed by in- masters nor men have gained anything by this ure certainly affords the best chance of a Liberal Biarritz .... 30*06r. 66 64 E. 3 - - f. - 2
man, the prisoner succeeded in escaping, and he victory. Corunna.... - - - - - -
dividual prejudice. movement. They have put themselves clearly in russel -- - - - - -
therefore applied for the warrant.
ABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, M. Lissagaray has completely recovered from the Pa • 8 ....
expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins The members for Oxfordshire appeared at the the wrong with the public, and have, in fact, weak- Mrs. Caroline Greener gave similar evidence to severe wound he received in the duel with M. de stilourg.. - I- _. 17. ::: .: :: ----- -.: :
for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towellings of ened any just cause of complaint which they had her husband, and said that the prisoner struck her Cassagnae. Toulon .... 3011 r. 73 73 Z. 0 3 S,W. c.b. - 2
Agricultural Society's anniversary festival, but they
Con-
every description. Patterns gratis and post free.and in falling Nothing of fact transpires at the cam of Chalons, fr.earte;
did not touch upon the more irritating subjects of pub- against the railway companies, by showing how in .thee and mouth, and she fell, g gp , tent (6 a.m.
local time) 3023 r. 51 51 N.W. 1 1 N.W. r. 015 2
OARDIGAN JACKETS made expressly for Bar lie controversy. Mr. HENLEY wisely refrained from little the interests and convenience of travelling and she became in- _accept the ordinary manceuvres inspections, etc.
her head was very much heart, ,
1..) use, Warm and Elastic, from ss. 6d. each, for sensible, and did not know anything further that _ eXPLANATION.
...a lies' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM HOLDICII departing from the supposed rule, as too many were safe in their hands. All strikes cost the
occurred. The difficulty of determining when time native of any Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. a sea level. The letter
r., rising; f., falling; a., steady-indicate direction of motion of the
and CO., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS 105, Fleet- contrive to do, truly premising that the present strikers dear, and since the cab trade is one which e
en answer to Mr. Knox, country still owes his allegiance to the land of his birth, mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade.
street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common.
was no fit time to make the experiment, because lacks the bonds of unity of other trades, it was a Mrs. Greener said that all she bad done to the and when it may legally be transferred to another State, Extreme
Heather:Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.-calm.
WILLIA
VICTUALLERS'MIILDDRAICERII,,
Established
,
Cis'tomo'd 11'84I2CEaNt S110:5D the whole ground is now covered with gun- rash and profitless experiment to attempt to coerce prisoner was to take hold of him while he was
arisen
isot feblt:neEngrdGalone.m Atquefstn of allegiance has 1.-lightnin 1g).:-mb.luienisak; :haczy:c(!:mtlos,,ereci,e,:ztdi
i.f.-rfaoi::;81.1.--imhoawil
en
Fleet-street, City; Southern Branch-No. 5, The Pave- powder, "and every man who lets an incautious the public into interfering to redress a grievance of striking her husband. land. A native of Savoy has long been settled in Geneva, Sea disturbance,
t.-thunder. Rain-fall. snow or hail (melted) dining last 24 hours.
Hannah Harding, a young woman, gave some-
~,,,,-,f- 0,1,,,,h9r0...,0,nrn0n. Patterns cretin and post free, r,„."1, bol ~,,,,, 4. mev cause ablaze which no whose existence they were not quite clear. and was naturalised there before Savoy was annexed to REMARKS.
___,_ _.. ..:__:i..- ~,;"1,,,,,...c. ___ _,_.,._:__ ,a__, Atmospherical pressures have diminished at all stations sine.,

WILLIAM HOLDICII and CO., LICENSED
VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, Established 1842, at 103,
Fleet-street, City; Southern Branch—No. 5, The Pave-
ment, Clapham-cournon. Patterns gratis and post free,
with Price List.

TO LICENCE') VICTUALLERS.
EST A.BLISIIED 18.12.
VILLIANI 11OLDICH and CO.,
LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No.
103, Fleet-stroot, corner of Farring,don-stroot ; and at No.
5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). ,

HE A. 'I'RE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
THIS EVENING, at 7, A ROUGH DIAMOND. Messrs.
G. Belmore, Ashley; Mrs. Killington, and Miss Lennox Gray.
At a quarter to Eight, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. G
Belmore. Bilington, Ashley, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson,
C. J. Smith; Miss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Louisa Moore, Ai iss
Maria Harris, and Miss Lennox Grey.
To conclude with THE FAST COACH. Messrs. J. G. Taylor.
R. Romer, W. 11. Eburne; M iss Nelly Harris, and Miss E. Pitt.

LYCEUM H
and Manager, E. T Smith.
Triumphant success of Mr. FAIRCLOUGH, the American tra-
gedian, who will make his eleventh appearance THI EVENING
as oTHELLo The very kind reception he met with last week
from a fashionable and crowded house will never be effaced
from his memory.
The box-office open under the direction of Mr. C. Nugent,

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining.
THIS EVENING, at 7, A CHARMING PAIR.
After which (at 8 o'clock), Dion Boucicault's new drama, in
four acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life.
Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, H. J. Montague,
J. G. Shore; Miss Tressy Marston, and Miss Rose Leclercq.
Entirely new Scenery by gr. F. Lloyds and assistants.
To conclude with ASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY.
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open
daily from 10 till 5.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborouh.
TrES EVENING, at 7.30, SISTERLY SERVICE." Messrs.
Belford, Harcourt; Miss Sheridan
After which, THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD.
Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson; Mesdames Sheridan,
tioo tall. Hughes, Newton, &c.
To conclude frith MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS,
HOLBORN.
Reappearance of FRANK PASTOR, the Champion American
Equestrian, who has just returned from a starring engagement
in Vienna.
ONRA, the Sensation of London.
ONRA, every evening, in his Flying Trapeze Act, as performed
before the Prince and Princess of Wales.
ONRA'S Terrific Flights on Two Bars.
0 • RA'3 Incredible Somersaults and Pirouettes.
ONRA, the most wonderful and perfect performer over
witnessed.
The incomparable Scenes in the Arena as usual, including M.
Samwell's wonderful performing Dogs.
Open at Seven, commence at half-past Seven. Morning Per-
forroince, Wednesday and Saturday, at Half-past Two. Children
under ten, half-price to morning performance only.

guago, and threw down the gauntlet in his most
imperious style, but he did not seem to give much
satisfaction to those he addressed, to judge from
the change that so soon followed in his tactics.
Little or no good can be gained by the infusion
of so much bitterness of spirit in the shape of
temporary advancement ; while, on the other hand,
the tone of public life is lowered by it, and the
general interest of the community sacrificed by in-
dividual prejudice.
The members for Oxfordshire appeared at the
Agricultural Society's anniversary festival, but they
did not touch upon the more irritating subjects of pub-
lic controversy. Mr. HENLEY wisely refrained from
departing from the supposed rule, as too many
contrive to do, truly premising that the present
was no fit time to make the experiment, because
the whole ground is now covered with gun-
powder, " and every man who lets an incautious
spark fall upon it may cause a -blaze which no
one can stop." At the same time he took the
opportunity of acknowledging the courtesy which
he had met with from those who held different
opinions from himself—acting on the principle
that distinguishes Englishmen of giving n, man
credit for doing his best according to his own
particular views. Concerning the cattle plague,
Mr. HENLEY made some observations, which are
interesting, as he is an authority on such matters.
Although some alarm has been created from the
other side of the water, the right hon. gentleman
thinks that we have no cause for fear here, and may
safely trust to the vigilance of those who have the
charge of such matters. A gap of a hundred year-
had elapsed before the last visitation occurred, and
we must hope that a still longer period may inter-
vene before the plague again infests our shores.
Colonel NORTH'S remarks were chiefly directed to
those topics which most intimately relate to his
profession. increased pay which the soldier now
receives contribute greatly to the advantage and
efficiency of the army, and men of a superior class
have joined the ranks. This is satisfactory intelli-
gence at all events. He also alluded to the sterling
services the British army had rendered in Abyssinia,
whereby the character of the country for military
superiority was so greatly enhanced.

On Monday evening a meeting took place at
Bury for the purpose of hearing an address from
Viscount CHELSEA, the Conservative candidate.
The noble lord declared himself as a Liberal Con-
servative, and explained that this was often ob-
jected to as the definition of political principles on
the ground that a man sought thereby to kill two

birds with one stone, and change his opinions as

it might suit the doctrines of expediency for him
to do so. There is, however, some truth in the
noble lord's remark, that in politics there is a
" golden mean" which affords Liberalism or Con-
servatism mutual ground on which to join hands in
times of danger and national trouble. Lord PAL-
MERSTON, who was one of the most successful and
popular of British statesmen, was of this political
creed, and afforded satisfaction to the country in
general, while he commanded the respect of all
classes of politicians. The county of Lancashire
is just now, as Lord CHELSEA emphatically said, in
all the turmoil of an election, and from one end to
another confused or distracted by rival claimants.
Lord HARTINGTON has made himself very busy
in his attacks upon the Government, and began
with his accusations against the foreign policy of
Lord STANLEY. This was original at any rate,

Autumn is admitted on all hands to be the sea-
son for travelling, and if it were possible to order a
Parliamentary return of the wanderers now roam-
ing over hill and dale, and in or and mountain,
gaziag anxiously at the celebrities of continental
cities or exploring Scan linavian fiords, we should
notwithstanding all we know on the subject e pro-
bably a good deal astonished. Men of business
and men of pleasure, politicians of every degree,

literateurs in search of ideas, and artists in quest of
subjects, busy men seeking repose, and quiet
men seeking variety, all alike seek conso-
lation from their cares and diversion from their

alln..ss in taking their yearly holiday. Her gra-

eious MAJESTY has set us the fashion this year of
crossing the Channel, but ordinarily she shows her
loyal subjects that she at least considers there is
something worth seeing in her own dominions. An
uninitiated observer might not unnaturally ask why
so few of our countrymen and women adopt the
same course. There are heights in the Highlands
and in Wales which, if not as impressive as the
Alps or the Pyrenees, are yet full of moun-
tain beauty. There are lakes in Ireland
and in the North of England whose fame

is not unknown even to those familiar
with Como and Constance, while for the soft
and varied charms of rural scenery our English
nooks and byeways can fairly challenge competi-
tion with those of any other country. We may not
have the quaint old wonders of Flanders, nor the
gorgeous architecture of Normandy, neither m ay
we have as many marvels of art to display to
the admiring traveller who walks along, MURRAY
in hand, to learn what to•look at, but there is quite
enough to interest or occupy any intelligent idler i❑
any of our great cities. II w is it, then,
that while every corner of the Continent has been
trodden by the English tourist, he is such a stranger
in remote districts of the three kingdoms at home ?
The answer may partly be found in the caprices of

fashion ; but so far as those middle class travellers,
the great majority, to whom expense is some con-
sideration, are concerned the real reason lies in the
expense of English, Scotch, and Irish travelling.

When the cost of travelling a hundred miles or a
thousand is weighed the thousand inHes carry the day
with the man of economy, just because the expense of

In answer to Mr. Knox,
Mrs. Greener said that all she bad done to the
prisoner was to take hold of him while he was
striking her husband.
Hannah Harding, a young woman, gave some-
what similar evidence,
Sergeant Smythe, 31 E R, said that in taking the
prisoner into custody last night ho at first said
€6l:
three
oi dt
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let
hw ahsi
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nt yd,
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that he knew nothing about the affair, but after-
s
owrart

living is so different on the continent and in Great
Britain. The English or Scotch hotel keeper takes
it for grAnted t ,at all his guests travel en prince,
and that guineas are matters quite beneath their
consideration. A letter to a contemporary records
the grievances of a French lady and gentleman,
who, bent on exploring the Highlan is, found the
exploit an extravagant one, since a stay from
late one night to the morning of the second
day at a Scotch hotel coat them £2 10.3.
The foreigner did not complain so much of
the charge itself as at its origin the want
of room, and he contended that the double diffi
culty of being doubtful how to get accommoda-
tion, and certain to pay too high for it if you

The prisoner said ho was very drunk at the time,
and that if he had done all that had been said he
was very sorry.

because, as the noble lord reminded his hearers,
there were not two opinions about that. Lord
HARTINGTON said that Lux_•mburg had been the
only difficulty, and that was a little one after all;
but he contrived to forget the Abyssinian war
and the Spanish affair, which reflected so much
credit on&the noble lord's conduct of foreign affairs.
Then when the expenditure question was explained
by the Chancellorof the Exchequer, Lord HARTING-
TON
could not parry it himself, so he said that
Mr. GLADSTONE would explain all that they
will not find it very easy to do so. Reform
is a matter which the present Government
had settled ; but their opponents say no, that it
must be re-opened, and all things arranged accord-
ing to their views. It is, indeed, difficult to say to
what expedient people will not resort to carry out
their ends; but this is not one_of a very patriotic
nature, because it damages the prosperity of the
country to be always raking up objects of strife,
and keeping things in an uncertain style.
Lord CHELSEA voted some expressions of Sir R.
PALMER about the Irish Church, and declared that
he valued his opinion highly. The defection of
this distinguished supporter is a great loss to Mr.
GLADSTONE, the pore so as his opponents take
every opportunity of enunciating his views. The
noble lord made some amuipg rmaalLs concerning

did get it, was quite enough to frighten away
the tourist. As it was, he declared he had fre-

theft he might have
tywelve months. The
Mr. Lox said that if the prisoner had been
boreeonugtsitetnipt ftoor sopnriiseontrufmoprer
prisoner without any provocation had. knocked
down a woman and rendered her senseless.
He would show the prisoner that women were nut
to be
an attacked
pl
osfuhcihma. way, and he intended to
make
ghglm for
ated Six
Assaults Act for the
lie should not deal with
ecxk example
ien
the prisoner for the assault on the man, although
for that he ought to be committed for two months,
months with hard
lbaubtosehrouuelddecromthmeitArav
assault on the female.
TIIROWING A WOMAN DOWN STAIRS. —Ann
uddings, Soho, was
violently assaulting
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soNir
ooe
r.
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snißarrdo xei
nt tgw'
tbiah
the same house, by
throwing her down stairs.
The injured woman was unable to attend.
From the evidence of a witness, Eliza Banting,
women had been drinking,
itth that place between them, and
that the prisoner, with the exclamation of ,6 You
tp appeared
wt hoartd
old —, I've got you now," seized the injured
woman, and threw her down stairs.
the
e tooktwo
Binsted Webb, an officer of the C division,
proved finding the injured woman in a state of
semi-consciousness, and he took her to the Middle-
sex Hospital, where she now remains in a pre-
carious state—the surgeon stating that she was
suffering from concussion of the brain.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for seven days.

quently seen numbers turned away from the hotels
every evening, and many were glad to sleep on
the coffee-room floor. Of course, under such
circumstances, the hotel keepers charge wbat they
like, and the evil perp3tuates itself. In Switzer-
land there are telegraphs at every stage, and for a
trifling cost the traveller can insure horses and
beds at the next wage. In all these matters we
are terribly behind our neighbours, and could take
a lesson or two from them with advantage.

The difficulty of determining when the native of any
country still owes his allegiance to the land of his birth,
and when it may legally be transferred to another State,
is not felt in England alone. A question of allegiance has
arisen between the Governments of France and Switzer-
land. A native of Savoy has long been settled in Geneva,
and was naturalised there before Savoy was annexed to
France. The French Government, however, maintains that
the son of this Savoyard is amenable to conscription,
and as he has refused to submit himself, the French autho-
rities request the interference of the Swiss Government.
The latter have given a forcible response. They explain
that as the Savoyard was naturalised in Switzerland be-
fore Savoy was annexed to France, he could never have
been a Frenchman at all, and that neither he nor his son
owes any allegiance to France. This argument ought to
immediately settle the case in question ; but the naturali-
sation difficulty is frequently causing trouble between the
two Governments in those instances in which the natura-
lised subject was really a Frenchman until he became a
Swiss. A final determination of this brarch of inter-
national law is a most urgent necessity.
A strange letter from Florence appears in the Liberte,
announcing that the Italian Minister of the Interior,
Signor Cadorna; is retiring from office to join his Pied-
montese colleagues, La Marmora, Lanza, Sella, and others.
This epistle adds that the Tuscans only are now left at the
head of Italian affairs. "Mean, narrow-minded, guided
by the principles of Macchiavelli, whom they are neverthe-
less far from comprehending ; lost in the subtleties of
scholastic policy, like the Jews of the Talmud—such are
the managers of public business. How long is this strange
situation of a Ministry without a majority or the support
of the country to last?" The latter adds that the discon-
tented Neapolitans are organised against the Ministry,
the Piedmontese have regained their former leaders,
and a powerful league is to be organised against
Menabrea and the rest of the " mean and narrew-
minded " Tuscans. Everything is said to be
at stake in this game, even Italian unity and the
monarchy itself. But the fall of Menabrea is to replace
the Piedmontese in power, and this will form an alliance
with the members of the Left, with whom they have voted
for two years. Here is the means of removing the per-
plexity which has begun to trouble Europe respecting
Italian affairs.

Atmospherical pressures have diminished at all stations sine.,
yesterday, except on the west coast of France : the change has been
greatest in the northern portion of these islands, shewing a decrease
at Nairn of more than three-tenths of an inch. Barometrical read-
ings are still high : the difference between the greatest at Scarborough
and the least at Biarritz is nearly three-tenths. Temperature is
higher at stations in the N. and N.W. Easterly winds were fresh yester-
day In Ireland and on the Channel coast, increasing to a high wind at
places. This morning the wind is easterly and moderate in southern
and western districts, but in Scotland is light from the S.W. Mist is
reported from the N.E. coast and the Irish Channel. The weather is
generally fine over these islands and in the west of France.

Mr, R. A. Allnatt writes to the Times on the subject of
the weather. On the 7th the sun thermometer regis-.
tered 122 degrees, and the maximum shade heat was 84
at four in the afternoon. On the next day the wind
shifted to E.N.E., became rough and squally,
and having mingled with the previous equatorial
current, produded mist, a dense cbald canopy, and a great
depression of temperature. The thermometer only regis-
tered 61 degrees in the shade, thus showing a variation of
23 degrees in 24 hours. A correspondent at Kettering
gives the shade temperature for the two days at 89.20 and
60 respectively, shewing a still greater variation.
A letter from Lord De Tableyappears in the ?Manchester
Examiner and Times addressed to his tenants. It assures
them that, whichever way they may vote in the candida-
ture of his son for Mid-Cheshire, no change of feeling
towards them will he created in his mind. In contrast to
this, an account is given of the way in which a Mr. War
burton, of Arley, acts. He has seventy or eighty tenants,
and they are to go to the poll like a flock of sheep,
A correspondent writes : " Mr. Warburton has personally
waited upon Mr. Fair, a leading farmer in the district,
who is on our central committee, and after censuring
him for taking the liberty.of canvassing the Arley tenants,
told him (Fair) that he (Warburton) would tell the tenants
which way they were to vote: and that Mr. Warren should
not have one vote from that estate." There is one merit
in the way Mr. Warburton acts. He is plain enough as
to what he means, and there can be no after-discussion
about intentions, as there was in the Drax business.
The appointment, mentioned some months ago, of the
Dean of Capetown to the bishopric of Bombay is confirmed.
The late bishop, Dr. Harding, was an extreme Low Church-
man, whose zeal against " innovations " once carried him
so far that he tore down a cross of flowers which had
been introduced among some Christmas decorations
and trampled it under foot. His successor is a very
decided High Churchman, so that both Bombay and Cal-
cutta will now be administered by bishops of that school.
The Bishop of Madras, Dr. Gell, is, we believe, a Broad
Churchman, like his brother, the incumbent of St. John's,
Notting-hill, who assisted Bishop Colenso in preparing for
the press his work on the Pentateuch. It is added that
the Rev. J. G-. Cowan, incumbent of St. John's,
Hammersmith, will succeed Mr. Douglas in the
deanery of Capetown. If we remember rightly, this
church has already contributed to the . ranks of Colonial
Church dignitaries in the person of Bishop Twells.
The bishopric of Grafton and Armidale, Australia,
has been conferred upon the Rev. J. F. Turner,
vicar of North Tidworth, Wilts, and son of the late Lord
Justice Turner. Mr. Turner is a Durham University
man. The bishopric was founded only last year, and
became vacant through the drowning of the first bishop,
Dr. Sawyer. The living of Tidworth is worth about
£320 a year, with residence, and is in the gift of the Lord
Chancellor. The Church papers are still uninformed with
respect to the bishopric of Peterborough, which has now
been vacant fur some weeks. Probably the absence of the
Queen has caused the delay in filling up the post. Her
Majesty is well known to take a keen interest in these
appointments, and some time ago vetoed one, which was
strongly urgalLou. jea SZ2II
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SUIDIDE AT A RAILWAY STATlON.—Yesterday
afternoon a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, named
Robert Welsh, threw himself out of the window in the
wooden bridge at the Woolwich Arsenal Station on to
the line beneath, falling about thirty feet. When picket
up he was found to be quite dead. The cause of the
suicidetas not transpired.
.•• • • •

No appointment to the vacant See of Peterborough,
it is said, will be made until the Queen's return from
Switzerland.

The performance of " Elijah " in Gloucester Cathedral,
on Wednesday, drew together a large audience. Dr.
Wesley seems to give better satisfaction as a conductor that.
he has sometimes done. He took the times precisely
as Mendelssohn himself would have taken them ;
and the chorus and the band were well up to
the mark. Titiens, Santley, and Sims Reeve:
again took the leading parts, and of course acquitted
themselves magnificently. The collection for the charity
at the doors only amounted to £155 15s. sd. for both th e morn-
ing and afternoon-- a serious falling off; and this is thought
to be because the ladies no longer hold the plates. The
miscellaneous concert in the evening at the Shire Hall
again brought together a large audience.

The termination of the cab strike will take no one by
surprise. There was no unanimity among the cabmen
and cabowners, and no fund to support a strike. It was
so evidently unjust to pay the privileged men 3s. 6cl. a
day while the unprivileged got nothing, that such an
arrangement could not stand, and so the attempt to win
over the first failed. There is now a talk of forming m
organisation and raisinga fund, in order to conduct anothe.
strike on a future and more favourable occasion. In the
meantime it is to be hoped that the cab-owners
will see the injustice and absurdity of visiting
upon the public the alleged sins of the railway
companies—injustice because the wrong persons are
punished, absurdity because the extreme measure resorted
to had not the smallest effect upon the party which it was
sought to intimidate. It is to be hoped that the cab-drivers
will hesitate before they consent to make themselves'
again the instruments of the cab-owners in a movement
from which the second alone would reap any benefit.
Both parties would do well to ask themselves if the com-
panies have not as much right to impose a tax upon the'
cab-owners using their stations as upon the booksellers and
the restaurateurs. Any way, it would be a ludicrous way
of resenting the impost if "unprivileged" booksellers and
bunsellers were to refuse to sell books and buns to the
public because refused admission to the railway stations.
Mr. Gladstone has sent to a gentleman in the neigh-
bourhood of Manchester a statement with regard to
Liberal and Conservative finance, in reply to Mr. Hunt's
recent statement. He says that the Liberals left the
income tax in 1858 at 4d. in the pound. When they
came back to office in 1859 the expenditure of
1859-60 had been determined by the late (Derby)
Government, and he (Mr. Gladstone) had to meet
a deficit of about 4 millions. The history of the last
endeavour made by the Liberal party to reduce the public
expenditure commences with the year 1861. The two
previous years had seen the finances of the country dis-
turbed by the additions made to our armaments through
fear of French aggression and by the China war ;
and in 1861 a heavy charge was caused by the Trent
affair. But in 1861 the Government were able to
reduce the military and naval expenditure by about
one million and three quarters, and in 1862 by no
less than three millions and a half, compared with that of
1860 ; and their hands were strengthened, in effecting re-
ductions, by the result of the debate raised by Mr. Stans-
feld on the 3rd June, 1862, which committed Parliament
to still greater economy. Mr. Gladstone then proceeds to
show how that policy was carried out. In 1862 the ex-
penditure, exclusive of the National Debt, was
£43,070,000 ; this was reduced steadily year by year until
in 1865 it was only £39,680,000. Since then it has been
steadily increased, and is now £43,730,000, or nearly
' £700,000 more than it was before the Liberal reductions
began to take effect. This increase does nut include the
cost of the Abyssinian war. Further, while during the
Liberal Administration the expenditure fell short of the
estimates every year, during the Conservative regime the
expenditure has exceeded the estimates. The surplus of
revenue over expenditure applied to the reduction of the
National Debt by the five Liberal budgets, 1862 6, was
£12,850,000. The deficit during the two years of Tory
budgets is £1,914,000, or, excluding the Abyssinian war,
£161,000. " From these facts," adds Mr. Gladstone, "it
follows that the policy of the Liberal party has been to
reduce the public charges and to keep the expenditure
within the estimates ; and as a result to diminish the taxa-
tion of the country and the National Debt; that the
policy of the Tory Government, since they took office in
1866, has been to increase the public charges and to allow
the departments to spend more than their estimates ;
and, as a result, to create cleficiwts, and to render the reduc-
gon ,of
.taxation imp2§§lll:, !)1171;441_139.4q. D7ll .the
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HER MAJESTY.

PARIS, Sept. 9.

Queen Victoria is expected here to-morrow
morning at half-past ten. Her Majesty will travel
under the strictest incognito, and will rest during
the day at the English Embassy.
Her Majesty will leave again for Cherbourg at
10 o'clock in the evening.

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The Duke of Cambridge dined at the Du'
gassy this evening.
The Queen will hold a Council on Monday next
at Windsor Castle.