The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

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ASSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1821.
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Total Invested Funds upwards of £2,750,000.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES
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Fifteen Days at this Office, or with the Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.

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ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, '
Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool.
EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867.
The " ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents
than now.
FIRE BRANCH.
PREMIUMS in 1867 £460,553
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being a larger revenue than in any preceding

year.
LOSSES by Fire in 1867. £292,125
Nrr PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex-
penses £56,373
LIFE BRANCH.
Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 £BOl,OOO
Do. during previous Quinquennium £688,000
Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583
Ixrx Puoroseis now effected will participate in the
increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy-
holders.

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.
August, 1868.

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.

Offlces-LROYAL EXOHANGE, London.
Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W.

OCTAVIITS Esq Governor.
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Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Robert Ainadous Heath, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment
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expire on the 14th of October.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
advantageous terms.
The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the
uniform rate of Is. 6d. per cent. per annum.
No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy
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KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly
APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex-
penses. Assistance is urgently needed.
F. ALFRED BED WELL, Vice-Chairman.
JAMES BLYTH, Secretary.

THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown.

The private medical attendants of the patients are
invited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.

Full particulars can be obtained on application to the
Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill,
W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W.

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill, Putney-heath.

Established'alst Jul-y, 1854.
This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.
Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for tho in-
valid.

2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their
own homes.

A new wing to the Hospital has just been completed
at a cost of upwards of .£lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election.
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex-
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
will be thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW, Secretary.
No. 10, Poultry, London, E.C., September, 1868.

CONTRACT FOR IRON CHAIN CABLES, IRON
MOORING CHAINS, &c.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, Oct. 26, 1868.
FHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
1 the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that on TUES-
DAY, the 24th November next, at Two o'clock, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into Store
at her Majesty's Dockyarks atWoolwich, Chatham, t- beer-
ness, Portsmouth, and Devonport, all such
IRON CHAIN CABLES, IRON MOORING CHAINS,
and articles appertaining thereto, as may from time to
tune be ordered.

HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON._ _

Rev. J. W. Ayre
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield
Hon. and Rev. F. Byng
Rev. R G. Baker
Rev. S. Brooke
The Lord Clinton
Rev W. Cadman
E. Charrington, Esq.
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain
Rev. E. Capel Cure
Rev. J. E. Cox
Octavius Coope, Esq.
Arthur Currie, Esq.
Rev. J. Connell
Rev. C. W. Furse
C. J. Freake. Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hessey
H. G. Heald, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer
Subscriptions will be recei
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar,
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd
Plan-square, tq Whof,commv

Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Herbert, M.P.
Re 7. J. E. Kempe
Rev. W. P. Erskine Knollys
Rev. S. W. Lloyd
Rev. A. Martineau
Rei. W. D. Maclagan
Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. J. Moorhouse
J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. Canon Nepean
Rev. E. Parry
John Pearson, Esq., Q.O.
Rev. G. F. rrescott
Rev. F. Pigou
R. T. Pigott, Esq.
R. R. Pym, Esq.
Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
R. Wade, Esq.
Loftus Wigram, Esq.
Ned by any of the above ; by
and Co ; and by the Hon.
I, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
micationalraay be acitireseed.

The average annual expenditure of the last three years
may be ascertained, and a Form of the Tender and Con-
ditions of Contract may be obtained at this Department.
No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day
of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the part/ attends,
or an agent for him duly authorized in writing.
Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for Chain Cables, &c.," and must also be delivered
at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by
two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with
the person tendering in the sum of £2,000 for the due
performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Aegietar v# Witracto and Public socuritim

74
mu,
Wilson-Patten is more likely to go to the wAll—Mr. Dis-
raeli will hardly think it worth while to reconstitute the
Board of Admiralty, even though he does mean to return
thanks for her Majesty's Ministers at next year's Guildhall
banquet. But the news of the day is, after all, that Sir
ti Roundell Palmer has retired from the contest at Oxford.
I am very sorrry for—Oxford.
The Earl of Devon has given great offence by two
appointments which he has just made to sub-inspector-
ships. Of the two gentlemen, one is his own nephew ; the
R N other is the son of the permanent secretary. Both peer
wic. and commoner, President and Secretary of the Poor-
law Board, have used all their influence in opposing the
ad much-needed reforms originated by Mr. Hardy when he
was President. That near relatives of these two obstruc-
`sor, tives should have been appointed to posts in which
‘da) they will be able in great measure to neutralise
Th Mr. Hardy's well-meant measures, is, to say the least,
unfortunate. Nedmipuoliagtism of late years has been less the
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sEp\rvuocEa during aht the Atititethohislelpilei.tsce;eoi!letrlhoait.(bi
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absent
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from town during term.
Mr. Reverdy Johnson is much courted just now, and is
seen a good deal in society. He is rather a jovial-looking
man, in spat of the loss of one eye. Mrs. Johnson is quite
after the American type—tall and lanky and sallow.
Mr. Johnson has not done a very discreet thing
in publishing a revised edition of his Guildhall
speech. The two versions are not a bit alike in word-
ing, although the sentiments are similar. Of
course the first report was correct, and represented what
he really did say. That he should have published a second
implies that he said under the influence of good cheer what
he would not have said before dining. An am-
bassador, I need hardly say, ought to be the
same before and after dinner. None of the papers
has mentioned an interesting remark which he made a few
days ago in reply to a deputation from the Freedmen's Aid
Society. He said that it was reading Wilberforce's
speeches many years ago which first fired him with the
love of freedom.
There was a grand gathering on Monday at the first
meeting for the season of the Royal Geographical Society.
The Queen of Holland being present, Sir R. Murchison,
and other members possessing orders, wore them. The
Queen, who by the way is lame, is a very accomplished
woman, and a capital linguist. Of course she is treated
like the rest of our royal visitors ; that is to say, she is sent
to Claridge's Hotel. There was another lady present at
the meeting, who attracted almost as much attention as
Queen Sophie. This was the aged Lady Franklin,
widow of the Arctic voyager, who still wears her widow's
weeds. Notwithstanding her advanced years, Lady
Franklin has only recently returned from a tour in India.
The new paper which appeared here yesterday, the
Morning Summary, is really a very creditable production.
The news is well condensed ; the paragraph articles are
written with spirit and terseness. The weakest point is the
leaders. They are of that mild, thin Conservatism which calls
itself Liberal-Conservatism or Conservative-Liberalism, "I
am not sure which," to quote Mr. Bright. The fate of
the Day shews that this style of writing will not
do. A journalist must either go in boldly for true-blue
Toryism, and, like Mr. Hannay, of the Edinburgh Courant,
advise the Government to sweep the streets of London
with grapeshot, or abandon the attempt to maintain tra-
ditions which can be upheld only by force—if at all. By
the way, I should like to know if Mr. Hannay underwent
the three months' training at the Foreign Office and
passed through the proper examinations before he received
his consulship in Spain. Rumour says that he got out of
this ordeal by offering to send his "little boy" to the
examiners.

31EETING.
NOVEMBER 17, 18, 19, and 20.
First and Second Class RETURN TICKETS to LEAMING-
TON and WAR WICK, issued at Paddington, Victoria, Battersea,
Chelsea, West Brompton, Kensington, Windsor, and Reading,
on Monday, November 16, and following days, will be available
for tho Return journey by any Train up to Saturday, November
21, inclusive.

On Tuesday, November 17, a FAST SPECIAL TRAIN Cst
and 2(1 Class) will leave Paddington at 9.0 a.m., for Leamington
and Warwick, calling at Reading and Oxford only. Also a Re-
turn Special Train will leave Warwick on Friday, November 20,
at 5.30 p.m., and Leamington at 5.40 pan., for Paddington, calling
at Oxford and Reading only.
Fur full particulars see hand bill
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington, November G.

GREAT NORTH ERX RAILWAY.-
ST. ALB NS STEEPLECHASES.

On FRIDAY and SATURDAY, 1 tl,l and 1I th 17ovember, a
SPEOI A.L I RAI si will leave LONDON (King's-cross Station)
direct for ST. ALBANS at 11. , morn. each day, arriving at St.
Albans (Great Northern Station) about 11.50 morn.

FARES FOR THE DOUBLF: 'JOURNEY.
First C1a55........... ss. I Covered Carriages... 2s. Gd.

Returnin ; from St. Albans (Great Northern Station) each day
at 5.10 p.m.
Also on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, 13th and 14th November,
a SPECIAL FAST TR kI at ordinary Ist and 2d Class Fares,
running direct to ST. ALBANS, will leave LON .ON (King's-
cross Station) at 11.45 morn. each day, arriving at St. Albans
(G.N. Station) about 12.33 noon. Returning from St. Albans
(G.N. Station) at 5.5 p.m. each day. Passengers at Ordinary
Fares only will be conveyed by these Tr-.ins.

SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager.
London, King's-cross Station, Nov., 1868.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.

WARWICK AUTUMN RACES, TUESDAY, WED-
NESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY, 17th, 18th, 19th,
and 20th November, 1868.
ORDINARY RETURN TICKETS issued from LON-
DON (Euston, Kensington, Chelitea; Battersea, and Clap-
ham Junction) to LEAMINGTON and WARWICK, on
MONDAY, Nov. 16, and intervening days, will be avail-
able to Return by any Train (Irish and Limited Mails
excepted) up to and including SATURDAY, Nov. 21.
Return Tickets to Leamington and Warwick from
Broad-street (City Terminus), Shoreditch, Dalston, High-
bury, and Camden-road, will also be available from the
16th and following days up to the 21st November.
For further particulars see bills.
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, Nov., 1868.

LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.
ST. ALBANS STEE 9LECHASES, FRIDAY and
SATURDAY, 13th and 14th November.
A SPECIAL TR iIN for ST. ALBANS will leave
EUSTON STATION on both days of the races at 11.30
a.m., returning from St. Albans at 6.0 p.m., calling at
Chalk Farm and Willesden Junction both going and re-
turning. _

Trains in connexion will leave BROAD-STREET (City
Terminus) ft r Willesden Junction at 11.10 a.m., calling at
Dalston Junction at 11.15 a.m., Highbuty at 11.19 a.m.,
Camden-road at 11.25 a.m., and Kentish Town at 11.28
a. Ili .

Trains will also leave CHELSEA at 11.1 a.m., and
KENSINGTON at 11.15 a.m., for Willesden Junction.
Passengers from Broad-street, Kensington, will
have to change carriages at Willesden Junction both going
and returning.
For further particulars see bills.
W. CAWKWELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, Nov., 1868.

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lower cost.

The new secretary to the Royal Agricultural Society,
and editor of that society's journal, has been appointed.
He is a Mr. Jenkin. He was selected out of about five
hundred candidates ; rather, I suppose, because he was a
friend of the late secretary, Mr. Hall Dare, than for any
profound knowledge of agriculture. Indeed, it is said
that he is not acquainted with that noble science, but has
promised to get it up. As regards his literary attain-
ments, they are no doubt fully up to the mark, and the
scientific chronicles which appear in the Quarterly
Journal of Science chew that in that respect
he will not be deficient. His predecessor is now
fighting a very severe battle in Wexford County. Some of
the priests, I am told, have advised their flocks to keep a
good supply of rotten eggs for his reception. He may
think himself fortunate if he has to dare nothing harder
than eggs.
A friend of mine, who has just come home from a long
continental tour, tells me that our cemetery in the Crimea
is in a most disgraceful state. It is covered with
nettles, and is a melancholy instance of the short
memories that we have. The French cemetery, on the
contrary, is neat, and well kept by a custodian specially
appointed for that purpose. As for Sebastopol, that, too,
is in a miserable plight. My friend saw plenty of signs of
the bombardment, but none of any attempt to repair this
great fortress ; so that Mr. Bright has under-
estimated the consequences of the Russian war.
That war has destroyed, for the present and for
some years to come, Russian power in the Black
Sea. My friend completed his tour by an ascent of the
Matterhorn. He found it, I need hardly say, a very stiff
scramble, one that made his limbs ache for days after.
wards. Mr. Grove, the president of the Alpine Club,
made the ascent about the same time. This is his second
ascent ; his first was made last year, and he was the hero
of the table d'hôte at Zermatt while I was staying there.
I have within the last day or two heard a story which
reflects little credit upon the dignitary to whom it refers.
A clergyman living within a few miles of the residence of
the Bishop of Manchester lately wrote that he had 150
catechumens waiting for confirmation, and that as it was
a long time since that rite had been administered
in his parish, he hoped his diocesan would pay
him a visit as soon as possible. The bishop replied
that he should take the parish in question in due course,
and be there towards the end of 1869. The rector wrote
back calling attention to the extreme rarity of confirma-
tion, begging that an exception might be made in hie
case, as the population was extremely migratory, and
hinting at the hardship of keeping so many persons back
from Holy Communion. The bishop wrote a reply of
four lines, in which he said that in all probability he would
not get so far as the parish referred to before June
or July 1870 ! Since then several of the candidates
have left, unconfirmed. Now, I should like to know
what single good deed Dr. Prince Lee has ever done that
he thinks himself thus at liberty to set at naught the
wishes of one of his clergy, and to pour contempt upon the
spiritual interests of 150 persons. The Bishopric of Man-
chester is the last that was constituted, and the last that
is likely to be constituted so long as the Church is con-
nected with the State. One cannot help contrasting its
first occupant with the first occupant of the last diocese
but one, the good archbishop who has lately gone from us,
and who for so many years laboured devotedly in the dio•
cese of Ripon.
Mr. Sydney Hodges, whose portraits of the Bishops of
London, Exeter, and Adelaide have been exhibited at the
Royal Academy, and who last year had a portrait there of
the late Rajah Brooke, has just modelled a posthumuous
bust, which, if I may judge by comparing it with the
portrait, is an admirable likeness. Of other art news I
must defer speaking until the elections are over. I will
only say that the Dudley Gallery this year is said to be a
very good exhibition.

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L Latest Improved System of Dentistry," second edition'
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perusal." Express. Attendance nine to six. Consultations free.
—2:, New Bond-street. N.B. -Many years with Mr. Eskell, of 8,
Grosvenor-street.

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"PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION, or Antesthesia Locally
Applied," "DENTAL SURGERY—a Practical Treatise," &c., &c.,
may be Consulted Daily as hitherto from 10 to 4 o'clock, at his
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31ETROPOL11 AN GOSSIP--Thursday.

The general election is now become visible as well as
audible. After six months' talk about the Irish Church
we have at last got to something tangible in the shape of
hustings and polling-booths. Walking through the streets
of this province of houses, one sees on every hand the
carpenters busy in constructing out of planks and posts
erections that have a good deal to do with th:. Constitu-
tion, but which will last very much less time even than
Mr. Disraeli has given the Constitution. Covent
Garden marketers stand watching the shed that
is being put up against St. Paul's Church,
whence Mr. Philosopher Mill will endeavour in
vain to make his not very powerful voice heard by the
electors of Westminster. Another large structure is being
run up under Nelson's column, and Sir Edwin Landseer's
lions sit guarding it, and presenting an even more impos-
ing symbol of the Constitution than the Bible, Crown, and
Sceptre which the Conservative candidates for the City
place at the head of their triple address. Aristocratic
Portland-place and Park-circus are being disturbed
by the sound of the saw and the hammer, and
will soon be listening to the fifteen speeches of
the five candidates for Marylebone and their respective
proposers and seconders. Finsbury does its politics on
Clerkenwell-green, a large open paved space,as little "green"
as the Desert of Sahara. The City nominates its seven
candidates under the eye of Gog and Magog at Guildhall.
This is satisfactory for the citizens, considering the elec-
tions are taking place in the raw and foggy month of
November, instead of, as in 1857 and 1859, in the mild
springtime of April, and as in 1841, 1847, and 1852, in
the full glow of summer.

I am told, but I can hardly credit it, that there is some
prospect of a Conservative candidate being returned for
Finsbury. That the borough of Tom Duncombe and Thos.
Wakley should suffer this seems impossible. It is not the
first time that the Liberals have been divided, nor the
first time that a Tory has sought to profit by the division,
but sought in vain. It is incredible that he should seek with
better success, now that we have a lodger franchise. And yet
there is n o doubt that Mr. O'Malley h as been spending a pro-
digious sum of money,and ex-Sheriff Lusk knows that money
has something to do with winning an election. Moreover,
the Islington interest, with the Rev. Daniel Wilson at its
head, has been put forth on behalf of the " Constitu-
tional " candidate, and the vicar has a large following.
In the City it is not impossible that Baron Rothschild,
who has for many years been a political nonentity, will go
to the wall, and that Mr. Bell will take his place. Should
he do so, the great house of Thomson, Bonar, and Co.,
as well as that of Friihling, Goschen, and Co. will be
represented in the greater house of the people. Of West-
minster I feel very doubtful. This contest excites more in-
terest than that of any other metropolitan constituency.
Mr. Mill has undoubtedly damaged himself by more
than one indiscretion. The letter written against him by
so liberal a Churchman as Mr. Kempe, of St. James's, Pic-
cadilly, will tell against him,and would have told still more
but for the fact that the day after the Conservative papers
published it the Liberal papers published one from Dean
Stanley supporting Mr. Mill—a very courageous thing
of the Dean to do, by the way. In my own borough, I
hope that Dr. Sandwith, the hero of Kars, will be the hero
of the poll. He is the only one out of the five candidates
who is not a nonentity, and he has promised to give the
Permissive Bill fair play, whereas Mr. Harvey Lewis is the
champion of the publicans. In that borough, Marylebone,
all four Liberal candidates are standing independently, and
there must be plenty of money going. Of most other elec-
tions there is little new to tell. Mr. Campbell Sleigh,
the rejected Liberal candidate of Lambeth and Plymouth,
and since then the rejected Conservative candidate of
Huddersfield, for which last rejection hewas consoled with
the coif by the Conservative Government, is now
gone to Frome, to stand against Mr. Hughes,
where his chances can hardly be brilliant. Mr.
Baillie Cochrane, who has been talked of for
a peerage ever so many times, has to earn it by opposing
Sir John Simeon in the Isle of Wight. Sir John is a
Roman Catholic, and I believe there are only three others
offering for English constituencies : Sir John Acton at
Bridgnorth ; Lord Edward Howard at Preston ; and Mr.
Marmaduke Maxwell at Beverley. In North Lancashire
the contest is being waged after the fashion of the old
days, before the first Reform Bill, wlien the Fitzwilliams
and the Lascelles fought the whole county of York, and
spent several hundred thousand pounds. Lord Derby is said
to have put down £30,000 for his son's expenses, being
determined it he can (quocunque modo) to diminish the
Cavendish interest, which, being represented in the last
Parliament by four members of the family, has, in his
lordship's opinion, increased, is increasing, and ought to
be diminished. The Marquis of Hartington is doing his
best to maintain it, and, as I mentioned in a former letter,
is said to be spending £5,000 a week. Should Captain
Stanley be defeated—which is by no means an impos-
sible eyent, though to-day it is rumoured that Colonel

In the case of Green against Shumway and others,
a decision of great moment has just been given by the
Court of Appeals at the State of New Tork, the highest
judicial tribunal of the State. It explicity affirms these
two propositions :—First, that a test oath cannot, under
the Constitution of the United States, be required by le-
gislation as a condition of the right of suffrage. Second,
that the Legislature of the State of New York has no
power to establish by law any qualification whatever for
electors in that State.

The first mill in America for making sewing silk
and twists by water power was built by Rodney Hanks,
in Mansfield, Connecticut, about 58 years ago, and the
first silk made by machinery in the United States was
made in 1829, in Mansfield. In 1814 silk rose to s3o,a
pound. The census of 1810 gives as the value of the silk
manufacture and raw silk of Massachusetts and Connec-
ticut for that year, $29,121. In Windham county the
value of these products iu 1825 was $34,090. In 1831
Mansfield produced $Bl,OOO worth of silk. _

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