The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-12 00:00:00

RETURN OF HER MAJESTY TO

ENGLAND.

The strictly private character of the royal continental
tour has been maintained up to the last, and her Majesty
and the members of the Royal Family who accompanied
her to Switzerland have once more landed on British
soil, without any of those exuberant demonstrations
of loyalty which under other circumstances would
have been manifested. About two o'clock on Friday
afternoon the royal squadron, accompanied by the
Trinity yacht, steamed through Spitbead, the
Victoria and Albert leading. The weather was beautifully
fine, not a cloud appearing in the horizon, and the surface
of the water was almost as smooth as glass. There was
scarcely a breath of wind, the dead calm interfering sadly
with the local regatta which was taking place. An
immense concourse of people lined the extensive range of
beach at Southsea, and the ramparts were also crowded,
while the entrance to Portsmouth harbour was thickly
studded with craft of almost every description, from the
trim-looking sailing-boat to the slender galley. The
royal standard was not flying on board the Victoria and
Albert, but as it was known that the Queen was on board,
her approach to the harbour was watched with the greatest
interest by thousands of spectators. The band of the 33rd
Regiment (recently returned from Abyssinia), was stationed
on the Southsea Clarence Esplanade pier, and as the royal
yacht passed played the National Anthem, and some slight
cheering followed, although the well-understood wishes
of her Majesty, that her whole tour should be carried
out in the most private manner possible, evidently checked
anything like that hearty expression of loyalty with which
her Majesty is invariably received on all public occasions.
At half-past two o'clock the royal squadron steamed into
harbour, and the Victoria and Albert was moored oppo-
site the King's Stairs in Portsmouth Dockyard. A
number of wherries, crowded with spectators, lay astern,
anxious to catch a glimpse of the Queen, and the workmen
on board the troopship Crocodile crowded into the rigging,
and when, about twenty minutes to four, her Majesty
embarked in the royal gig, there was a slight cheer from
the Crocodile, although here again the feeling to which
we have before alluded appeared to restrain the men. Her
Majesty was rowed across the harbour to the Royal
Clarence Victualling-yard at Gosport, where Admiral Sir
Thomas Pasley, Bart., naval commander-in-chief at
Portsmouth, and Lieutenant-General Sir George Buller,
K.C.8., commanding south-western district, were in
attendance. Her Majesty immediately proceeded by train
to Windsor.

The public have to wait patiently for Parliamentary
reports. Directly they aro ordered by the House of Com-
mons to be printed they are put in the printer's hands, and
yet a couple of months or more elapses before they make
their appearance.

The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen has, in conformity
with the decision come to by the Council of the North Ger-
man Confederation, abolished his consulates abroad. The
interests of his Highness's subjects in foreign countries will
henceforth be confided to the Consuls-General of the
Federat ion.

The five prisoners in custody at Altrincham,
°hail ed with the murder of Thomas Jenkinson at Bowdon,
last Sunday, have been before the magistrates, and
were committed for trial for wilful murder. The sixth man,
who was arrested at Liverpcol, has been discharged, not
having been identified as one of the parties to the outrage.
Mr. Justice Hannen on Friday attended at the
judges' chambers. No further application was made for
bail in the case of Madame Rachel, and as the sessions of
the Central Criminal Court commence on Monday, it is
...Amer application for
made.

NEW OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.—The oath of alle-
giance to be taken by members in the new Parliament is
prescribed by the recent Act on " promissory oaths." It
is very short : " I do swear that I will be faithful, and
bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, her
heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God."
A MILLION OF PAUPERS IN ENGLAND AND
WALES.—By a return just issued, it appears that on the
first day of January of this year the number of paupers in
receipt of relief, in-door or out-door, in England and Wales
(including lunatics and vagrants) was more than one
million and forty thousand. In the year ending
March 25, 1867, nearly £7,000,000 was expended for the
relief of the poor, or more than half a million in excess
of the sum spent during the previous year. The rate per
head on the population for the relief of the poor was
6s. Cid. for the year ending March 25, 1867.
THE " DUMBFOUNDED SPANIARDS."—There has
been a great deal of merriment at Mr. Roebuck's choice of
a term for abusing the Spaniards—" the dumbfounded
Spaniards "—but this incriminated expression seems to us
the only one of any merit in the speech,—not for its good
sense, which God has been pleased to deny to Mr. Roebuck,
but for its picturesqueness. It does, we think, contrive to
convey a conception of the Spanish mind, awakening, like
Rip van Winkle, from a sleep of three centuries, and
opening with its astonished eyes on the rush of modern pro-
gress. At least, if this is not what Mr. Roebuck meant,
it is what his much-ridiculed adjective suggests to us.--k
Spectator.

DEATH OF WASHINGTON IRVING'S BROTHER.---,
Ebenezer Irving, the brother of Washington Irving, has
just died at Sunny Side, in America, at the age of 93.
Washington Irving, once writing to a friend respecting
his brother Ebenezer, said : " I think him one of the
most perfect exemplifications of the Christian character
that I have ever known. He has all father's devotion and
zeal, without his strictness. Indeed, his piety is of the
most genial and cheerful kind, interfering with no rational
pleasure or elegant taste, and obtruding itself upon no
one's habits, opinions, or pursuits. I wish to God I could
feel like him. I envy him that indwelling source of consola:i
tion and enjoyment which appears to have a happier effect
than all the maxims of philosophy or lessons of worldly
wisdom."

NEW CLOCK AT LONDON BRIDGE.—Mr. Thomas
Hughes, M.P., accompanied by Mrs. Hughes, presided at
the uncovering of the large and handsome illuminated
clock, erected by the United Kingdom Temperance and
General Provident Institution, in front of their new pre-
mises in Adelaide•place, London Bridge. After the cere-
mony the company adjourned to the board-room, where
an elegant repast awaited them, after which Mr. R. W.
Selway, Mr. John Taylor, the Rev. G. M. Murphy, and
and other gentlemen delivered addresses, in which the
prosperity of the institution was repeatedly alluded to as
a source ot congratulation, its capital now considerably
exceeding one million sterling ; the number of policies
issued, 46,000 ; and its annual income being not less than
£200,000.
"LA LANTERNE " IN LONDON.—We find the
following improbable story in La Liberte:—"No. 15 of
La Lanterne, containing extracts from the works of
Napoleon 111., could not be sold yesterday in the public
streets. A regular squadron of policemen marched, about
five o'clock in the morning, into the French quarter ot
London, and the newsvendors were driven with violence
from their usual post at the corner of the Caf6lldgence. This
in London ! What would it have been in Paris ? Thert;
was almost a riot ; the people unanimously siding with
the newsvendors. A person in authority at length ap-
peared, who established order by giving it to be under,
stood that there had been a mistake, in consequence of rr
foreign manoeuvre, about which he would give no explana-
tion. A copy of La Lanterne was also produced in Vienna ;
but there it was immediately seized, by order of the autho-
rities."

METROPOLITAN CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. —A
meeting of the advocates appointed by the several local
associations in the metropolitan boroughs, to represent
Conservative interests in the revision courts, was held at
the office of this association on Friday afternoon, at
which representatives were present from the cities of
London and Westminster, the boroughs of Greenwich, Hack.
ney, Marylebone, Finsbury, Lambeth, Tower Hamlets,
Southwark, and the new borough of Chelsea. Mr. C,
Graham Carttar, the honorary secretary of the association,
was in the chair, and resolutions were come to which will
materially assist the numerous claimants and others whose
interests are concerned on this occasion. Arrangements
were made for a proper report of the proceedings at tht
courts, to enable the different advocates to act in concert
and to assist one another, and a long discussion was ha 4
on the numerous points of importance which ill arise
the course of the revision.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 12, 1868
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IL IF E BOAT' SERVICES.—During the Storms of tress to be dealt with by the poor rates, and it the East they will come into collision somehow or CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.'
E MOSES and SON, THE WEATHER TABLE.—TELLS DAY.
the past year the National Lifeboat Institution con- iii only to be hoped that next winter there will be other. That this will be a result unfavourable to -...--........_ ___.____
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---- wrecks and 36 vessels from destruction. The Institution ettore unity and method in the distribution of the interests of Europe cannot be denied, espe- (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS.
A rERCHANT TAILORS and OUTFITTERS. also expended £31,815 in the same period on its Lifeboat .
charitable funds. One very practical method of cially at the present time, but the pro- .
_I T-I_ Establishments, in addition to granting £3,189 for rewards-
The
PARIS. FRIDAY, September 11.
relieving the excessive destitution of parishes like bability is in that direction. The party of peace The arrival of the Queen yesterday morning was marked Saturday' Extreme Sea
The Committee of the Institution earnestly appeal to the.4l F. 1
public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued Sept. Sept. 12, B. T. itt',9l W. Ito F. D. WE. to
FOR ALL CLASSES. heavy demands on their 187 Lifeboat Establishments. Bethnal-green and Spitalfields would be the equali- in Berlin has for some time past endeavoured to
short stay whilst en route for Switzerland. A crowd of some Naisroa.m. I"
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by as little ceremony as the occasion of her Majesty's 12 9
Contributions will be thankfully received by the London
proportions, however, assembled at the station in the
33'32r. 48 /43 E. 1 i W.N.W.I o.c. o'o9 2
cation of the poor rate all over London. The strug- represent that all bitterness of feeling was allayed,
evening, and her Majesty was cheered as she left for Aberdeen .. 30'28r. 45 42 N. 1 1 N.E. i 0.c.1 - 2
ands(i counllbnasntiltcuertiso,
nandilb,yjothhenSsetcrreeetta.ry, Richard Lewis, Leith
EXCEL L E N C E WITH CHEAPNESS.
E ,at the A.delphi, London. gling ratepayers of the eastern parishes would be and that the indignation experienced in Paris, at
ta
escuarborough 30'17r. 52 51 E.N.E.6 1 S.S.E. ex' o'2s' I
Shields
eased of a weighty burden, while the pauperism of the time of the war in,,' Germany, was allayed; but Cherbourg.
The Bourse still preserves its lethargic aspect. At i Yarmouth.
xhave.. 3016 r. B_l 5! N.E.
_5
_5 N.E._Co.
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JEWELS, Gold and Silver Watches, Silver Plate, Plated
termination to-day there [was no improvement visible, - - - - - - - - - ....
pRICES BASED ON READY -MONEY Ware, &c. the district would be less sternly ground down. there was no real foundation for the assertions made,
wthaoru though
vteh the
n pomp
some amndeacsuirrceumsdimtainneiseheodf. thTeheruremisoura
tsimoef Skudesntes - - - - - - - - - -
SYSTEM. TWO DAYS' SALE. Again, the dwellers of the West-end would know and a little experience will soon show that there is Ardrossan
Greencastle 30'20r. 55 51 E.N.E. 6 5 N. o.
:-ET.EI,,TIN..IE:• I 812 1 N1TT73.N.8.;.: brnili.:,s--13-214
N I' WES of the READY-MONEY Ay ESSRS. DEBENHAM, STORR, and SUNS
that there was no more reason to stint the recipient anything but a friendly feeling prevailing between
_ the two countries. At any rate, with one thing and when the weariness of fruitless rumours becomes felt gii
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a'IS'IIE'STAEDm Vca,Artn-ot be better expressed than in the following -1-T_L. will SELL by AUCTION, at their Rooms, Sing-
even in Paris, and on this principle the journals appear
extract from a leading article in the Times street, Covent-garden, on TUEDAY, September 15, and of parish relief at Whitechapel than at White
" Everybody knows the difference between a credit and a following day, at 11, fashionable JEWELLERY, set with _ another, a coolness prevails between Russia
ready-mUney business It is this partly which affords one tailor precious stones, gold and silver watches, clocks, plate, ball, and therefore would feel less appre
t be taking a holiday to-day. The Constitutionnel con- Plymouthnth 8.,3 f. 60 ; 3b.—
kgansceari;t:. 9. 62 t;9 E.N.E.E 7533 4 1'1:.1..E E.S.E.: col (Y2B I? 4 —.l
the excuse for charging I:7 75. for a coat while another will plated items, dressing-case:, and other EFFECTS, being toains nothing of importance-merely an article to show
LondoneYn` Portsmouth
2299 :9924 i
66.13 G 607
E.N.E.E 25 23 E.N.E.
E b:.
0. C.
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charge £4 4s. ..It is true that every tradesman ought to hension of cases of neglect or parochial and the Cabinet of Berlin. The Berlin Post
that the reduction recently made in the
forfeited property pledged in months of January, Feb- has taken up the question at length, and
abate his charges to customers who pay him punctually. Still
ruary, March, April, May, June, July, August, Sep- r sian arm C'peGrisNez 20'90f. 59 57 E.N.E. 5 5 E.N.E. c.f. - 4
we know how in this particular we all suffer for a few del
tombs:,
parsimony. A wise liberality in a temporary crisis
tember, October, November, and December, being months .
quents." might often prove an eventual gain to the parish quotes from the Moscow Gazette to show that fa not really a reduction of the effective
prior to October, 1867 (under the Act of Parliament), with The proceedings
.of the diplomatists at Paris are Rochefort .. ?..7_sf_. 66 q
W. 5 4 W.S.W. b.t. - 1
strength Brest B Z. 64 gl E.N.E. 2 4 N.E.r C. :: F.
the reverse of warlike. All those who have not already
kLL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES the follow'ng pawnbrokers, v.z :-Meszr.s. Attriaborough, funds. If timely aid were given to the disabled there is a good deal of strategy in the Russian po-
il. Fleet-street, and others, and goods deposited with them as
security for loam,. the period for which has expired, and labourer or his sick wife their health might be re- licy just now. The Muscovite journal speaks out Rarrnriltz... .. 2:37(1. tis 61 1 fvz 3 _ _ f.
... 2
departed are preparing to start: the Marquis de Moustier Brussels :: :: - - - - - --- ----- ----- -= =
______ other effects.-On view.
--1 q( MOSES and SON.. - : = = :
.11_...4 • averted. It is always a loss to the State when any does not desire to see Prussia enlarged. The Czati tomtnences his journey to-morrow. Count Walewski has 'Toul'Toun
on : 29.88 f. 70 70 E.N.E. 1 1 S.W. c.b. =—2
urs.lThermometerd EXPLANATION.
icate
direction
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, iv- 7 - does not wish that France should be injured in any Con-
t DDRESSES BELOW. -,vy .1:t - sh. family or individual drops trona the ranks of indus ;one on a German tour. Herr von der Heydt, the Prus- tialttAi,l.
sislain)eallclein, iesxtecrepotf
aFtitnhaenccea,mhasp
oa;so
Chalons.leftPa Paris.
nEtiNliienrglicionng. local tte,e) 301I8s. 55 54 S.W. 1 1 'W.N.W. o. ]
1X- . eii.' '';:,'
ttl 3-, g 4: --: 40.711111. trial labour into the vast army of pauperism, and way, and, therefore, one may readily draw the in-
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w., ..,
ex
sidered, this may be termed a quiet day, the success of the
mr..Berrarctiourge;wtefir.t.hcifoiairlrlleia:stzte:d and reduced to 72 dtg, a sea level. The letter
EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. , if our guardians and relieving officers were not Terence from all this that the alliance with Paris
It
tf bit:e:aerliis seems that
generalt yoilnoani ttnshtt
has
raeßesdsosotups;oe
spent
c,ay.,lohanotwithstanding,erdgaFeyrs:aci
number
:b itin
_ _- is the preferable one. Amid the confusing,steady
Ist l i hours.
"L'i MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke -
,- - - , - forced to consider the immediate outlay of pence
of
/LI • Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, LOA DON, S. URDAY, SEPT. 12, 1868.oefoome (1° 11:shatebse.
Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outlitters ----40--- before the possible saving of pounds we should aspect of things, it may be here sug- , Extremeiver
.Fobicetzieth.iktspirceetr duringd last 24 hours. Z.-calm.
for all Classes. 1.-lightning-nosty3:'brzY :co. uovLercast
Every article the best of its kind in Material, Style, and Mr. AYRTON met a crowded assembly yesterday find a different method adopted even on economical Bested that had France and Prussia been more
Worma,nship.
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,____ WnieTatnrehseesrsveudiaer:epel;mcrtoai:n:cehuwoilrlethv.
for the purpose of explaining his views on various grounds- If Mr. HARDY can complete his work by scrupulous in their course of action of late years it nations, including even some representatives of Peru, have t.-thunder. Rain-fall. snow or hail (melted) duri-ng last' 24 hours:
For JUVENILES there is a distinct department, containing an detached
cull; ; r f • -rfaolit.:gh.-1 hail.
bee decidede 11110:r:latyh:rg,Zt.er The Sea disturbance.
Barometrical pressure hasßinEclrleAasitediCiln the N., but decreased in the
unequalled assortment of Clothing for every occasion. The subjects, and began by declaring his preference for obtaining the equalization of the poor rate he will would be more a matter of indifference to them
must Fashionable Styles are combined with the best Materials
public over private canvass, which latter he be- have done the public good service. what line Russia took •; but the one has pursued a
s: during. the last twenty-four hours. It continues high in northern
_ _. __-__ -1- -t ,_ I,_____ a• ....• . .

MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke
LA •• Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outlitters
for all Classes.
Every article the best of its kind in Material, Style, and
Workmanship.
For JUVENILES there is a distinct department, containing an
unequalled assortment of Clothing for every occasion. The
must Fashionable Styles are combined with the best Materials
and Workmanship.
List of Prices, with rules of self-measurement, Patterns and
Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free
Every article is marked the lowest price in plain figures, from
which no abatement can be made.
Any article not approved of will bo exchanged, or the money
will be returned.
E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are Closed every
Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when
business is resumed till 11 o'clock.
The following are the London addresses of E MOSES and
SON:-
155, MINORIES
155, MINORIES
157, MINORIES
8:3, ALDGATE
84, ALDGATE
85, ALDGATE
86, ALDGATE
87, ALDGATE
83, ALDGATE
83, ALDGATE
5)6, NEW OXFORD-STREET
507, NEW OXFORD-STREET
503, NEW OXFORD-STREET
1, HART-STREET
2, HART-STREET
3, HART-STREET
137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD
1:18, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD
283, EUSTON-ROAD.

Country Branch ;
19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS.
20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

In consequence of frequent misrepresentations, E. MOSES
and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ
any travellers or agents, and that their only Establishments
are the above-mentioned.

COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED
VICTUALLERS.

THE only article really suitable for that purpose,
ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address
lus, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham.

GLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED
VICTUALLERS, is. 9d. PER DOZEN.
wILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., o. 105,
Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No. 5,
The Pavement, Clapham-common.

TABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length,
expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins
for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towellings of
every description. Patterns gratis and post free.

OARDIGAN JACKETS made expressly for Bar
‘..) use, Warm and Elastic, from os. 6d. each, for
wadies' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM lIOLDICII
arid CO., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet-
street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common.

WILLIAM HOLDICH and CO. LICENSED
VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, Established 1812, at 103,
Fleet-street, City ; Southern Branch—No. 5, The Pave-
ment, Clapham-col:ninon. Patterns gratis and post free,
with Price List.

TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS.
ESTABLISHED 1812.

WILLIAMLIaENu
.ED
VICTUALLERS'
D RaAnpclE
SC O. ,
No.
103, 11-3et-streot, corner of Farringdon-street ; and at N.).
5, The l'avement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch).
TII EATRE It UY A Id, AI)E LP 111.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. 13. WEBSTER.
Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
THIS EVENING, at 7, A ROUGH DIA3IOND. Messrs.
G. Belmore, Ashley; Mrs. Billington, and Miss Lennox Gray.
At a quarter to Eight, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. G
Thlmore, Bi lington, Ashley, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson,
C. J. Smith; \liss Charlotte Saunders, Miss Louisa Moore, Miss
M aria Harr:s, an.l Miss Lennox Grey.
To conclude with THE FAST COACH. Messrs. J. G. Taylor.
R. Rouser, W. H. Eburne; Miss Nelly Harris, and Miss E. Pitt.

LYCEUM E A. T It E.-
Lessee and Manager, E. T Smith.
Triumphant success of Mr. FAIRCLOUGH, the American tra-
gedian, who will make his 13th appearance THIS EVENING as
RICHARD III.: Duke of Gloster, Mr. Fairclough. The very
kind reception he met with last week from a fashionable and
crowded house will never be effacedfrom his memory.
The box-office open under the direction of Mr. C. Nugent,

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Solo 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 Tresay Marston, and Miss Rose Leclercq.
Entirely new Scenery by Mr, F. Lloyds awl assistants.
To conclude with MASTER JON ES'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 Swanhoroug,h.
THIS 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,
oolall, Hughes, Newton, &c.
To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE.

ROYAL AAIPIIITHENFRE 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 sRA'.3 Incredible Somersaults and Pirouettes.
ONRA, the most wonderful and perfect performer ever
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-
f ovmance, Wednesday and Saturday, at Half-past Two. Children
under ten, half-price to morning performance only.

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Mr. AYRTON met a crowded assembly yesterday
for the purpose of explaining his views on various
subjects, and began by declaring his preference for
public over private canvass, which latter he be-
lieved was " fraught with a good deal of mischief,
and, what was worse, political dishonesty." For the
matter of that it may be said that there is as much
danger in one practice as another, because men
may say what they do not mean, and promise what
they know they cannot perform in order to gain the
point immediately in view ; still there are some
advantages in public meetings over private
arrangements. In order to give these a full chance,
it may be premised that there should be fair-play
everywhere, and the system now too much in vogue
should be discontinued of causing interruption and
making disturbances, whereby alt sides cannot be
properly heard and understood. It is no credit to
any cause that its advocates cannot and will not
allow its merits to be questioned, and it lowers poli-
tical meetings for such disorderly conduct to prevail.
Only the evening before, when Mr. COOPE endea-
voured to address a meeting, the proceedings were
so " riotous" that he was scarcely heard. Mr.
AYRTON, however, had contrived to understand
enough of what his opponent said to enable him to
criticise his remarks. The hon. member's observa-
tions about Reform were amusing and rather ori-
ginal, notwithstanding all that has been said on
that subject. He declared that the present Govern-
ment had done nothing in that respect which entitled
them to thanks. In fact, the Conservatives had
done what they had because circumstances com-
pelled them to adopt such a course, " therefore they
were not entitled to that credit which was given
to public men who spontaneously did a great work
for the benefit of the people." This is a most dis-
ingenuous way of putting the matter, and we
wonder how Mr. AYRTON can have the face to say
that the Liberal party set an example of being
" spontaneous," when they spent fifteen years in
quarrelling over the matter, and only united in one
point, that their opponents should not do the work
they were themselves manifestly unable to perform.
We have not yet finished Mr. AYRTON'S luminous
definition of the affair, and accordingly we hear
that the Conservatives have done the work of Re-
form badly and imperfectly, and are not deserving
of thanks. This is a very idle way of arguing, and
can hardly impress many minds by its cogency—
first, the Conservatives are obliged to do such a
thing, and, next, when they did it they did it
badly. However, if they were compelled, and they
cin claim no credit, who compelled them?
Why were they more bound than others whose
peculiar province it more immediately seemed to
be ?

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Mr. CoorE spoko under circumstances of are tt
difficulty, but none of his rein Irks were particu-
larly forcible. He re:ninded his hearers that the
" blundering policy" of Mr. GLADSTONE had
caused great distress, ani that the shipping
tride was in anything but a prosperous state.
Besides this, many large sugar refineries were
closed, telling tales of want of work and sad priva-
tions. The Whigs, he truly said, left the condition
of the defences of the country in a very disgraceful
state, but the present Government have done their
best to remedy all this, and they had " given the
army the breech-loader rifle, they have given the
nation formidable forts, big guns, glorious iron-
sides, and it was to the honour of the present War-
office they had selected indestructible shields for
the protection of our batteries and iron ships, and to
the credit and honour of that borough that it had
produced the Millwall shield." It may be re-
marked, in comparing the rival claims of the can-
didates, that Mr. AYRTON has done a great deal to
forfeit confidence in the tactics he displayed about
the Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill. Large majo-
' rities of the House of Commons over and over again
approved of the principle of the measure introduced,
and also decided in favour of considering its merits ;
but the hon. member for the Tower Hamlets, with
some kindred spirits, put his veto on it ; and, in
spite of all possible efforts, he contrived to win the
match against time. Earlier in the session such a
thing would have been quite impracticable ; but, at
any rate, the mode of procedure was most objec-
tionable, and we would recommend the constituency
to consider if this is the way they approve of public
questions being dealt with.

The report of the Poor-Law Board for the year
1867-68 describes the measures which they have
taken to bring the provisions of the Metropolitan
Poor Act into operation. The experiments have
been made under very trying circumstances, since
pauperism has largely increased during the past
two years, the workhouses are overcrowded, and
the cost of maintaining the paupers is of course
very high. It is a noticeable fact that, with the
exception of the East Riding of Yorkshire, the in-
crease has taken place over the whole country,
though the highest rate occurred in the metropoli-
tan district. The general depression of trade and
commerce has of course been the chief reason of
this excessive pauperism. The excessive vitality in
trading circles previous to the crash of 1866 has
also assisted in augmenting pauperism since
the unprecedented demand for labour and the
high rate of wages brought men to the metro-
polis, to the shipbuilding yards, the railway works,
and the enormous buildings then in progress. To
make matters worse, when these men were sud-
denly thrown out of employment by the panic of
May, 1866, the cholera chose that summer for its
ravages, and the winter which followed was un-
usually severe an 1 prolonged, out-door work being
completely suspendel To add to these causes of
Depression came the bad harvest of 1867, and the
rise of ten shillings a quarter in the price of wheat.
The well-meant efforts of the charitable to assist
the destitute in some of the poorest districts were
in some districts productive of mischief, since unless
great care is used in administering public relief a
&Ass of idlers spring up who trade upon benevo-
lence. At the same time we cannot expect or wish
that the wealthy public should be content to fold
their hands and leave all severe and exceptional dis-

The arrival of the Cuba, from New York on the
2d ult., brings us intelligence of the continued dis-
turbances southwards. In most of the Southern
States the Legislatures are supporting the Gover-
nors in their endeavours to preserve order, and in
some parts this appears to be recognised as the first
necessity. The bodies of armed men who have
organised themselves in various districts throughout
the Southern States form a serious element of per-
plexity, and by common consent efforts are being
made to put them down. The Governor of South
Carolina has issued a circular against them ; the
Legislature of Georgia has passed a resolution
authorizing the Governor " to disband all organised
bodies of armed men throughout the State." In
Arkansas the disturbances assumed a serious aspect,
and fighting took place, the courts of law being closed.
The first accounts of these outbreaks were much
exaggerated, and absolute annarchy was declared
to be established. This alarming statement was
luckily soon contradicted, and the next day's intel-
ligence was reassuring, the disturbances being
quelled. We can hardly hope to see thorough tran-
quillity restored until the elections are over,since the
perpetual manoeuvring and counter plottings keep
up that degree of irritation and excitement which is
most opposed to confidence and security. In
Louisiana the Senate has contrived to eject Mr.
JEWELL, a Democrat, and has admitted a negro in
his place. Such a proceeding as this, for instance,
must raise a great deal of angry feeling, and pre-
pares both blacks and whites for active collision.
The Republicans have been gaining the day at
Vermont, as we knew by the telegraph a few days
since. Their majority, it seems, was about 28,000,
being an increase of 8,000 on the Republican ma-
jority of last year. Public interest is now centred
on the Maine election, which is to come off on
Monday next. The Republicans will, it is believed,
win the actual election ; but much importance is
attached to the question whether they have gained
ground since last year. Mr. PENDLETON is still ex-
erting himself for the Democrats, while the candidates
of both sides, in compliance with the usual custom
of American politics, are keeping themselves in the
background. General GRANT, indeed, has visited
Chicago, where he met with an enthugastic recep-
tion from his own party, but otherwise we hear
comparatively little of the doings of the great men
of the future.

The question of the renewal of the Reciprocity
Treaty has assumed a definite form, since we learn
from Otawa that the llon. JOHN Rost: was pre-
paring to leave for Washington to open negotia-
tions on the subject. Happily, the state of feeling
between the United States and Great Britain is no
longer what it was in the days when the Radical
members of Congress refused to listen to the remon-
strances from Detroit and other commercial border
cities with respect to the abandonment of
the Treaty. We may hope, too, to see other and
more difficult negotiations brought before long to
an equally encouraging solution. It is reported
that Mr. REVERDY JOIINSON has received instruc-
tions from Mr. SEWARD to the effect that all papers
hitherto issued regarding the Alabama question
have been cancelled by the American Government,
and that he is authorised to make such terms with
the English Cabinet as he may think fit. Even
accepting this information with some reserve, there
is reason to hope that the subject will now be en-
tered upon by ➢lr. JOHNSON and Lord STANLEY
in a very different spirit from that in which
it was formerly discussed by the representa-
tives of the two Governments. Mr. JOHNSON'S
speech at Sheffield indicated the most friendly
sentiments on his own part and on that of his
Cabinet, and we have already had frequent oppor-
tunities of ascertaining Lord STANLEY'S views on
the relations between the two great countries. His
lordship has openly declared before Parliament his
conviction that peace between England and Ame-
rica was one of the most important considerations
which a statesman could have in view. The De-
mocratic party in the States is, on the whole, more
friendly to England than its rival, and therefore it
would be highly desirable that this troublesome
question should be finally disposed of while Mr.
JOHNSON still retains power. Mr. SEWARD was
at one time by no means friendly to this country,
but he would no doubt like to retire from
office with the glory of having settled
the Alabama claims. When two such able and
straightforward councillors as Mr. REVERDY JOHN-
SON and Lord STANLEY meet, with full powers to
discuss a question which both are anxious to settle,
the solution of the problem cannot surely be far off.

the East they will come into collision somehow or
other. That this will be a result unfavourable to
the interests of Europe cannot be denied, espe-
cially at the present time, but the pro-
bability is in that direction. The party of peace
in Berlin has for some time past endeavoured to
represent that all bitterness of feeling was allayed,
and that the indignation experienced in Paris, at
the time of the war in,,Germany, was allayed ; but
there was no real foundation for the assertions made,
and a little experience will soon show that there is
anything but a friendly feeling prevailing between
the two countries. At any rate, with one thing and
another, a coolness prevails between Russia
and the Cabinet of Berlin. The Berlin Post
has taken up the question at length, and
quotes from the Moscow Gazette to show that
there is a good deal of strategy in the Russian po-
licy just now. The Muscovite journal speaks out
very plainly on the subject, and declares that Russia
does not desire to see Prussia enlarged. The CZAR
does not wish that France should be injured in any
way, and, therefore, one may readily draw the in-
ference from all this that the alliance with Paris
is the preferable one. Amid the confusing
aspect of things, it may be here sug-
gested that had France and Prussia been more
scrupulous in their course of action of late years, it
would be more a matter of indifference to them
what line Russia took ; but the one has pursued a
policy of such reckless encroachment, and the other
too tamely looked on meanwhile, that they have
lost a good deal of the moral weight they once pos-
sessed in the councils of Europe. How can they
say, "Thus far thou shalt go, but no further," in
the one case, when one neglected to give the warn-
ing and the other violated the principle in the re-
cent wars that took place.

The aspect of foreign affairs is again clouded
over, and much will depend upon the next few
weeks as to whether peace or war be the order of
the day. Russian policy is very undecided just
now, and the opinion of some is that by making a
closer alliance with Prussia the Government of St.
Petersburg will set France at defiance, and pur-
sue its policy it the East at leisure. No doubt
the French EMPEROR might have made a bargain
with Russia had he been so minded some time
•back, but it is to his credit that he has not
in any manner compromised the integrity of
the country by aiding and abetting the ambitious
designs of the Czar. There is no end to the sug-
gestions and counter suggestions that are made in
this matter, but the conclusion to be drawn is that
Russia means something, and that to suit no views
will she much longer forego her cherished scheme
of acquiring fresh spoils in the East. Whether, in
carying out this end, she propitiate France and
offend Prussia, or vice versa, is of very
little consequence to her, we doubt, so long
as the end is gained, but there remains a good deal
to consider as well as this point under notice. For
some time past war has been imminent between
France and Prussia, and it is not at all unlikely
that in the confusion prevalent on the invasion of

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COPENHAGEN, Sept. 11.

The Prince and Princess of \Vales are expected
on a visit to the Royal family, for the hunting sea-

son, in November.

The Var election will be decided in a day or two. The
nearer the approach of the decisive hour, the greater does
the importance of this event appear. The question at issue
is not whether the Opposition shall gain one more victory, but
whether the principle of controlling the absolute government
which now exists is to be carried further. The election
of the Jura was an Opposition victory which has caused
all parties to use their utmost endeavours to ensure the
success or the defeat of M. Dufaure. If ho be successful,
the election will do much to confirm the serious impression
produced by the Jura victory; if he be defeated, the unex-
pected return of M. Grevy will appear more in the light of
an accident. The return of M. Dufaure cannot but be
regarded by the French Government as a grave
occurrence. Indeed, the tone of the French press suffi-
ciently indicates the importance which is attached to this
event. Of course each party is confident of victory.
The telegraphic communication between Berlin and
Paris has been irregular and interrupted for some time
past. The Prussian Government has made inquiries into
the cause of this irregularity, and it has been discovered
that the accidents to the telegraph wires, of whatever
kind they may be, have been sustained on French territory.
" Of course," says one writer, " all this was by chance."
The reports of the health of Count Bismarck are not
reassuring. He will not be able to resume his onerous
duties for some time, and one writer goes so far as to
doubt whether he ever will.

An article by M. Guizot, which is to appear in the next
number of the Revue de Deux Mondes, is awaited with
much interest. It is entitled `• France and Prussia
Responsible to Europe." M. Guizot is all in favour of
peace.

The danger of a renewal of the famine in Algeria
is exciting an alarm which appears by no means
unfounded. The Government is very sore on this subject.
Last year a journal which had warned the colonists and
the Arabs of the approach of want was summoned
before the tribunals for daring to express an opinion.
Another paper, as I mentioned, has received two
Warnings. But the attitude of the Algerian press is quite
unaltered. It continues to warn and to menace. The
Liberty says that 200,000 Arabs have already died of
famine, and cannibalism has become almost a habit with
the survivors. The estimates of the mortality differ much,
but all agree in making it terribly high.
The unparalleled tragedy of Marseilles—the poisoning of
three husbands by their wives—continues to create great
excitement in the locality. It now transpires that the
youngest woman was an illegitimate child, and had been
adopted by a lady who pitied her destitute condition.
The girl was brought up, and married at the age of seven-
teen. But she refused to acknowledge her foster-mother
after marriage, disregarded the affection of her husband,
and formed an intimacy with a waiter. What makes the
crime the more horrible is, that when the poisoning was
commenced and thehushand felt his strength diminish, he
left his wife the whole of his property by will.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the 2 lines tele-
graphs that the Republican Convention of Massachusetts has
passed resolutions in favour of the payment of the United
States' debt in gold.

The war agitation is still kept up. Opinion in England
is generally against the probability of an outbreak, the
calculations of English authorities being founded chiefly
on the utter absence of any reasonable pretext for war.
But the foreign correspondents of English papers, whether
infected by continental rumours or not, are very uneasy.
The Times Berlin correspondent has recently taken a very
warlike tone. He says the execution of the designs of the
French war party depends entirely upon the relations be-
tween Prussia and Russia. Whilst Russia covers Prussia's
rear against Austria, her rival in the East, any war between
France and Prussia must be a fair stand-up fight, the terrible
chances of which Napoleon will not be in a hurry to
court ; and Russia's friendship or neutrality depends
altogether upon the support she obtains in her Eastern
designs. Austria is not strong enough to aid Russia suffi-
ciently. Prussia has no interest in meddling with Turkey,
and thus, perhaps, afford France a pretext for attack.
France has been applied to by Russia repeatedly during
the last few years, but as the latter Power proposed to
leave Prussia unattacked and confine operations to Turkey
alone, France was unable to "see it." The same writer
mentions other projects, such as France attacking Prussia,
whilst Russia was allowed to have her swing against
Austria and Turkey ; and also a division of the Eastern
spoils between Austria and Russia, whilst Prussia was
handed over to the tender mercies of France—all of which
schemes go to prove that the parties are unable to come to
terms. The Prussian press has caught the prevailing mania,
and the North-East Correspondence comes out with a war-
like manifesto, stating that there is a strong war
party at Berlin. Count Bismarck does not think
any benefit is to be derived from postponing hostilities,
but the King is more pacifically inclined. The reverse of
this has generally been understood. Of the English
journals, the Saturday Review observes that France has no
allies, and cannot undertake an aggressive war. The
Emperor's actions are inexplicable, but then the man who
must exercises other people's wits is oftenest at the end of
his own. The Imperial *Review thinks that war would have
ensued already if any other than Count Bismarck and
Napoleon had been the wire-pullers. The Spectator
observes that on the whole expectation is strained towards
a wholly invisible future. Coming events are not as yet
casting shadows before them.
The Rome correspondent of the Inclependance Beige says
that the reports of the approaching departure of the
French troops have recently become more definite, but he
is sceptical of their truth. It is known that the military
administration has requested the municipal authorities to
provide enlarged quarters for the troops at Civita Vecchia.
What is the object of this demand ? Some allege that the
occupying force is about to be strengthened by more regi-
ments from France ; others that the small garrisons
distributed through the province of Viterbo are
to be concentrated previous to embarkation. The writer
says that the health of the French garrisons is such that
they are to be brought to Civita Vecchia, not for the pur-
pose of embarkation, but for sanitary reasons. The great
heat of the summer has been productive of alarming mor-
tality amongst the French, but the Pontifical troops at the
camp of Hannibal have suffered still worse. Barrack
building is certainly not a common preliminary to evacua-
tion.

The protest now being drawn up by the ex-Elector of
Hesse against the confiscation of his territory is not a very
hopeful manifesto, if we may judge by the treatment
accorded to his ex-cabinet secretary. This Minister has
just been tried at Berlin for high treason, and has been
sentenced to three years' imprisonment, and to be after-
wards subject to the surveillance of the police for three
years more.

Dresden has been en fête during the visit of the King of
Prussia. A large number of troops of all arms assembled
in the city, and manceuvres and reviews were witnessed
every day. It is said, however, that precautions had
to be adopted to keep up appearances. Dresden was
filled with Prussian police agents, who managed to
prevent any manifestation of hostile feeling, if any were
intended, but certainly did not succeed in ensuring the
King of Prussia anything approaching to a welcome. The
Saxons have shewn considerable indifference to military
spectacles which were merely a testimony of the loss of
their independence. They are attached to their monarch,
and cannot be expected to regard with pleasure the visit
of a sovereign who has virtually replaced him.
The Government of the Netherlands is industriously
practising economy. It has suppressed the two special
departments of Worship, one of which had the care of
affairs Protestant, whilst the other watched over matters
Catholic. The former department is to he joined to that
of Finance, the latter to that of Justice. This curious
distribution is not actuated by any political motive.
The Dutch Government is determined to reduce its
Budgets, and with this object it has also diminished the
expenses of the army and the navy. It is believed that the
next Dutch financial statement will be an example to the
reit of Europe,

Barometer corrected and reduced to S 2 dog. a sea lesel. The letter
r., rising; f., falling; 5.. steady—indicate direction of motion of the
mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shads.
Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm.
Weather : b.—Clue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.—fog ;
I.—lightning :m.—misty. hazy ; o.—overcast, dull ; r.—rain ;B.—snow;
t.---thunder. Rain-fall. snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours.
Bea disturbance.

Barometrical pressure has increased in the N., but decreased in the
S. during the last twenty-four hours. It continues high in northern
districts : the least reported is from the W. coast of France, and a
difference of six-tenths of an inch is shewn between readings at
Nairn and Biarritz. Temperature is much lower on our N. and E.
coasts. Easterly winds—from N.E. to S.E.—of moderate force pre-
vailed yesterday over our islands. This morning a strong v%indfrom the
eastward is reported at Holyhead and Plymouth : on other coasts the
wind, which is generally easterly, is moderate. Bain has fallen at
places in the N. and W. The weather is cloudy, and fog prevails on
the west coast of France and at Valencia.

General Prim has just addressed a letter to his friends
in Catalonia. The communication contains nothing very
definite, but recommends his compatriots to remain quiet
for the present, and before acting to prepare for success
by all the means in their power.
Londoners who pass over Waterloo Bridge are little
aware, we suspect, that they owe the imposition of the
halfpenny toll which they have to pay to the corruption
of a Cornish constituency. Such, however, the Daily
News tells us is the fact. "It happened that when
Waterloo Bridge was in process of construction, the chair-
man of the Waterloo Bridge committee was a certain Mr.
Henry Swan, or Swann. Mr. Henry Swann was at that time
member for Penryn, and one of his means of getting elected
for the borough and of securing his seat for it (which
he did at the expense of the late Dr. Lusbington) was by
executing a contract for the stone of which Waterloo
Bridge is built, with certain influential electors of Penryn
who were possessed of quarries !" Contracts of this kind
are always costly, and the proprietors of the bridge had to
be reimbursed the extra outlay in which their chairman
had involved them for his personal advantage. Hence the
maintenance of the toll to this day, and all because the
electors of Penryn were venal. Ultimately this enter-
prising gentleman carried his bribery too far. He was
petitioned against in 1819 by his Liberal opponent, Mr.
Anderdon, and the facts being very flagrant, Mr. Swann
was reported against by a committee of the House of Com-
mons, his seat was declared vacant, and he was ordersal to
be prosecuted by the Attorney-General. Mr. Swann was
tried at Bodmin at the next assizes, August 11, 1819.
The Government of the day (Lord Liverpool's) did all
they could to assist him to get off. He made a striking
speech in his own defence, in which he declared
that as chairman of the Waterloo Bridge committee
he had caused £350,000 to be spent in Penryn. He
defended himself for having given a breakfast at which
from £5 to £25 was put into every elector's cup and
saucer. " Bribery," he observed, " in the lump is nothing.
It is nothing to pay money into the Treasury, or to the
Secretary of the Treasury, to be paid over to the proprietor
or patron of a borough for a seat, but it is a monstrous
crime in these poor men to receive their £5 to £25 a man,
whilst noble and right honourable proprietors can sell
seats for £4,000 each." These arguments, however
excellent in themselves, did not weigh with a
Cornish jury. Mr. Swann was found " guilty."
What punishment he received history omits to state;
Eventually Penryn had a narrow escape from total disfran-
chisement. The corruption of this borough and of Fast
Retford became the subject of a memorable parliamentary
debate, which, more than anything else, led to the Reform
Bill of 1832. Lord Liverpool's Government refused to
transfer the representation from these rotten boroughs to
such places as Leeds, Manchester, and Birmingham.
Penryn was annexed to Falmouth, and East R,tfor I was
made what it now is, virtually a county constituency.
Of late years the joint borough of Falmouth and Penryn
has been laudably free from bribery.
There is also a story told of another Cornish borough—
Helston. In 1790 there was a petition against the two
sitting members, who were elected by the vote of a single
elector. He claimed to be the only duly qualified elector
under an ancient charter of Elizabeth. The decision,
however, after a very full argument, was against this
return. Quite recently, Helston has been again
before a parliamentary committee. In 1865 Mr. A.
Young carried the seat in the Liberal interest, but was
unseated for bribery. A very exciting contest followed,
between Mr. Robert Campbell, an Australian merchant,
and Mr. W. B. Brett, the late Solicitor-General, who has
just been promoted to the bench. This election resulted
in a tie, each party polling 153 votes. The Mayor, as
returning officer, who had previously voted as an elector,
claimed and exercised the right of giving the casting vote,
and returned Mr. Campbell ; but on a petition to the
House of Commons this was disallowed, and, a vote
having been struck off Mr. Campbell's poll, Mr. Brett
was declared elected.
E. -v.," of Torquay, whom West of England readers
will have no difficulty in recognising, writes to the Times
that there is a worse evil than the feeing cf railway guards,
and that is treating them. He adds : " The whole system
of supplying drink at stations needs reform. The lisence
is given exclusively for the refreshment rooms, but on
many lines tempting little flat bottles of spirits, as well as
what is called sherry, are hawked about the platform.
Even in first-class carriages I have in thany in-
stances had to endure a fellow-passenger so offen-
sively drunk that I have been obliged to complain
at the next station, the only result being that
I 1 ava bel obliged to remove into another
carriage at much inconvenience, especially at night. The
drunken scenes in second and third-class carriages, and in
the drinking rooms by the night trains are often such as
would not be tolerated in an ordinary public-house. These
rooms are frequently left to the care of an incompetent
young woman, sometimes not of the steadiest character,
who is utterly powerless to refuse, even if so disposed, the
demands for more drink by roughs returning from a race-
course, or sailors paid off at Plymouth, whom we so often
encounter on the 'Western lines."
"J. W. 5.," referring to Mr. Spender's recent "Notes
on Norway," in the Daily ,News, puts in a word for
Sweden. He praises the Gotha Canal, with its famous
Falls of Trollhattan, and Stockholm, which he somewhat
inappropriately compares to Venice. Speaking of Norway,
he says : " I am sure if some of our artists would go
there and bring us something new, it would be a great
relief to the monotony of the exhibitions which now
repeat themselves every year. As an amateur, I
brought some sketches home, but did not meet with a
single artist, nor anyone sketching." It may interest our
readers to know -that Tidemand, the greatest Norsk
artist, finds so little patronage of art in his own country
that he has been obliged to take up his residence in Ger-
many (at Dtisseldorff), where his works are better appre-
ciated. But he visits Norway every year in order to
find subjects. There were last month some German
artists on the Hardanger Fjord, and an English
amateur at Aak, in Romsdalen. We understand
that Lady Pigott also took a large number of sketches
with which she will illustrate a work on Norway that her
husband is now writing. An English artist would find a
summer's work in each of the following districts—Roms-
dalen, Hardanger, and Sogne fjords, and the fifty miles
between those two fjords, viz., from Eide to Gudvangen,
a tract of country unsurpassed for beauty in Europe. All
these districts would be best reached by Bergen from
Hull. They have the further advantage of offering the
cheapest possible living. It may be well to mention that
on:all the Norwegian steamers a man and his wife travel
for a fare and a half.

town.

The anthropologists have been quarrelling about money
matters. It appears that Mr. Dunbar Isidore Heath,
whom our readers will remember as an Isle of Wight
incumbent who was deprived of his living several years
ago for having hazy notions about justification by faith, is
the treasurer of the Anthropological Society, and that a
Mr. Brookes has accused him of jobbery. It is a very small
job, anyhow, £3OO being the amount involved. This amount
Mr. Heath says he paid the printer, and Mr. Brookes, who
audited the accounts, had an opportunity of seeing the
voucher. Mr. Heath, in a quietly sarcastic letter, effec-
tually disposes of Mr. Brookes, and allays this storm in a
tea-pot. It is rather amusing to find the anthropologists
thus in arms about such a commonplace matter as cash.
pne would have thought that they were a finance com...
pany disputing over directors' commissions, instead of a
band of sovana I),osil.red t 4. poolskOltr ancestry to the
trioMaPiPo.

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 11.

Her Majesty Queen Victoria, accompanied Ly
their Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived here at six
o'clock this evening, having left Lucerne on the
evening of Wednesday, the 9th, and travelled by
way of Paris.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INIELLIGENCE.

MALTA, Sept. 2.—The ironclad screw steam fri-
gate Prince Consort left Malta on the 27th August
for Corfu, to join the squadron cruising under the
orders of the Commander-in-Chief on the coast of
Dalmatia, conveying, on a pleasure trip to Sicily,
Mre. and Miss Fanshawe, Deputy-Inspector of

llospitals Doraville and Mrs. Domville, and Miss
Grant, the daughter of the Governor of Malta, who,
on reaching Sicilian waters, will be put on board the
Azov, mortar sailing schooner, which the Prince
Consort, carrying mails and despatches, had in tow,
and on which vessel the excursionists will be landed
at Catania, and return thence in her to Malta, after
visiting Etna, Messina, and Palermo. The New-
port, surveying steamer, which lately brought over
the same excursionists from Girgenti and Syracuse,
left at the same time as the Prince Consort for
Siculiana, on the southern coast of Sicily, to resume
her surveys, after landing Lieut. Sullivan, R.N.,
and several of her crew attacked by fever. She re-
turned to Malta on the 30th of August to land
others of the crew also suffering from fever, but
there have been no fatal cases. Her Majesty's
steam sloop Antelope left on the Ist of September
for Corfu, with mails and despatches for the squad-
ron and Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Dal-
matia. The Italian steam frigate Principe Hum-
berto left Malta on the 28th of August, destination
not known, but supposed to be Sicily.
On Thursday morning the Channel fleet, under
the command of Rear-Admiral Warden, C. 8., Ar-
rived in the Frith of Clyde from Belfast Lough.
The fleet, consisting of the Minotaur, 26 ; Warrior,
32 ; Achilles, 26 ; Bellerophon, 14 ; Penelope, 10
(all screw ironclads) ; and the tender Helicon, 2,
anchored at the Tail of the Bank at 9 o'clock, and
shortly afterwards it was announced that the vessels
would be open to visitors from 12 to 5 o'clock.
Provost Grieve and the Greenock magistrates visited
Admiral Warden in the afternoon, and formally
welcomed him to the Clyde, and in the evening the
senior officers of the fleet dined with the Provost at
Levan House. The squadron, it is expected, Rill
remain in the Frith for a week, during which there
will be a succession of public and private entertain'
ments at Greenock in honour of the visitors, and 5
grand banquet and ball at Glasgow.
An order was yesterday received at Chatham
from the Horse Guards directing a detachment of
35 non-commissioned officers and men of the Drat
battalion of the Ist Royals, and 75 men of all racks
of the first battalion of the Bth Regiment, to pro-
ceed on the 26th inst. to Malta to join the service
companies of their respective corps which are about
proceeding from I\lalta to India. Capt. J. P. Jones
and Lieut. C'T. W. Sawyer, Bth Regiment, and En-
sign R. H. Derman, Ist Royals, are ordered to pro-
ceed with the troops. The troops will be conveys°,
in the Serapis, 3, 700-horse power, Capt. J.
Soady. The detachment belonging to the Ist an
2d battalions of the 10th Regiment and the Ist bat-
talion of the 14th Regiment, under orders to 002"
bark for India and Japan, have received orders t°
be held iu readiness to embark on the 30th inst.
A contractor's trial of the engines and machinery
of the double-serew steam gunvessel Seagull, 39 was
,
made at the measured mile outside Plymouth Sound
on Wednesday. The weather was fine, sea smooth,
and wind easterly, light, pressure 2. The Seagull
was built of wood in the Devonport dockyard. O
Mr. Alexander Moore, and measures 663 tons. fier
engines, horizontal direct-acting, are from the manu-
factory of Messrs. A. and I. Inglis, of Glasgow, one
of whom was on board. The trial was made under
the superintendence of Capt. George W.
C. 8., of the guardship of Steam Reserve Indus, and
of Mr. Robert Nicoll, assistant to the chief eugt
neer at Keyham Steamyard. Six runs under fu'
boiler power gave a mean of 11.2 knots per hour,
and four runs at half-boiler speed produced a glean
of 10 knots. These results were considered very
satisfactory, the speed being, it is said,
superior t:
that usually obtained by vessels of this class. There
were no hot bearings. The masts of the Seagull
ate
stepped, and she had in her bunks about 100 tons°
coals; draught aft Oft. 10in., forward Bft. lin. The

double screw is on Mangin's principle.
The 40th Regiment, now stationed at Aldershot,
is under orders to leave the Camp about the end of
the present month. The head-quarters ands c!Ilf
companies will proceed to Ashton, four compo
to Carlisle, and two to Whitehaven.
No. 8 troop of the Military Train is on the march
from Dublin to Woolwich, and is expected to ar-
rive at the latter place about the commencement of
next week, and will be quartered there until further
orders.

SECOND ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCII.---•
Messrs. Ransomes and Sims have won the second cham-
pion match of this season, which took place at Tharae,
Oxfordshire, on Thursday last. Their ploughman, Barker,
did a piece of his usual first class work, and the prize was
accordingly awarded to him against five competitors. Thu'
greatest excitement was perhaps caused by the comp
e
tion for the President's special prize, in which were fiv
0'
g
men using Ransomes' ploughs, and thirteen those
Messrs. Howard. The work was first class throughout'
but the first, second, and third prizes were won by 3105631.
Ransomes' implements. These interesting comp
etitioeS
as well es
cannot fail to bring out the skill of the labourer,
the quality of the implement. 14
AN ECONOMICAL SUICIDE.—A man, who Was
the habit of constantly frequenting a cabaret in the 17°41;
sailles-road, was a few days ago observed by the mistress 11
be sitting with his glass empty before him. "what Iris
you take ?" said the woman. " Oh, nothing more, "
the reply. "I have but forty sous, and I must buy 9iT',,
charcoal to stifle myself with." " Oh, that's VerYfu°liws-ith
rejoined the landlady, who thought he was joking; by
twopennyworth of cord you could hang yourself, Os' to
that arrangement you would have some more maid
ito
spend in drink." "Upon my word you're right," std.,d, jo
man ; and he spent thirty-eight of his remaining n°"-.4
drink. On Saturday morning he was discovered 11061-
to a tree.
LA MARMORA.—His countryman and colleague',
General Fanti, always said, "One of these days L9' liar'
General
morn is sure to run his stupid head against the QuaA- via
teral ;" but even Fanti never suspected that the " stupid
head" would have been dashed at it by the hand of 14"
Napoleon. That his brow is still aching from the °nil
cussion,and his faculties addled by the shock fortes attempt
tpossible apology for the imprudence of his present etd it
fault, and
o re-open discussion on his conduct. His ;ea t°
could scarcely be greater, was and is a blind sub of
the will, and abject deference to the character, of i'"ol4
Napoleon. It is only a man moulded in such vreAkto itt
that could appeal to his country to review the eve° of
which he figured so disastrously, or recall melnuriektiscl
time when every bulletin from the array proV°
cry of indignation against its general. —Blackleo°
At
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gazine. d
CORNISH TICKETING. Truro, Thursuaioa
Redruth this day 1,135 tons of copper ore /7 bi
£3,687 35., an average of £3 4s. per ton ;
fine copper, 65 tons 8 cwt. ; standard, £101190.--4 °et
as compared with last week's sale of £3 15s. 111.
fall in the standard is considered serious. e been 14
GREEN PIGMENTS.—Green pigments hav-
such bad odour for years on account of their real °"" toed
glued poisonous influence that chemists have Iiihb:111;16
hard to find a form of the favourite colour that 5-ci their
above suspicion. Success appotrs to have erouru°4l.stioU
experiments at last, for we are told that a new pr°l3;l. 0.10
of a salt of chronium yields a green colouring Pnvl'oerfeetlf,
leaves little to be desired. It is brilliant in WA P
harmless, and possesses other requirements of 64 Wl'
produeleloo
character. It will be known, when it is knoWei
ag
penal green."—Once a Week. f,he fire ill
INCENDIA.RIS3I CORNWALL.---Auo
West Cornwall, believed to bo the work of au ineeini; de-
occurred on Tuesday, about 20 tons of heY b 3 Os
stroyed at Calestock, near Truro. The farao
getting much alarmed, and in several instancsS
watches have been appointed. att"
I 'Despatches were received on Wednesdal_iatos
Colonial-office from the Governor of BritishD 0' ohel
and from the Governor-General of (Jimmie- efoe, 1
St:
were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Goo
pone
'7.,0340
v
Helena, Sierra Leone, Lagos, and to the Grovernor-
of Canada.