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FRANCE.
FRANCE. M. GAMRETTA ON THE SITUATION. Par: September 3.—M. Gam bet ta has declined'an invitiiti to a Republican banquet at Abresle, on the 22nd. ( account of previous engagements. He con- eluded lis letter:—"Active and prudent patience is the best political course, and the time is not far distant when y .u will reap the fruit of your patriotic efforts." Tkre ■ soldiers, belonging to a regiment which re- press')'! the disturbances at Marseilles, have been in- sulted u-hen on sentry duty at Narbonne. They were attackc i with stones by a group of sixty persons. One soldier was knocked down. Ten persons have been arrested, and their trial will take place in a few days. DISTURBANCES AT LYONS. Lyr". September 2 (Evening).—The Prefect, in conformity with a Ministerial decree, has to-day re- install the ecclesiastical teachers in those schools where they hri e been illegally dispossessed by the Municipality. Durin. the last fortnight many deputations have visited the Pr fut, appealing against this messure. In several sohool- reat resistance has been offered to the reinstate- ment, the ecclesiastics. In the workmen's quarter, La C r It Rousse, the priests were insulted and attacked with M :r.es. Troops have been sent into the quarter. At a i 'eting of the Municipal Council to-day the Ministe iil decree was strongly opposed. The Prefect annou' yd that it was his firm determination to carry out th- ,1W. Numerous deputations have appeared at the II 1 de Yille to-day to protest against the rein- fitatenv it of the ecclesiastics, and much popular excite- ment 'i' been aroused. The authorities have taken precant .nary measures. THE INSULT TO M. THIERS. TRot viLLE, September 2.-M. de Valon, who was Unplic.'Bd in the late insult to M. Thiers, will be broug', up before the Police Court at Pont L'Eveque on Friday next. M. M. de Gontant-Biron, the French Am bat ..dor at Berlin, dined yesterday with M. Thiers, and ret :rns to his post to-day. P A/O. September 2.-General Chanzy has been ap- pointed commander of the Army Corps of Tours. The Council-General of the department of the Var is the only on which, up to the present, has expressed a wish for til- dissolution of the National Assembly. The Radicr Deputies, MM. Bouchet and Rouvier, have annotm -*d their intention to celebrate the anniversary of the f i 1 of the Emperor on the 4th inst. M. Gambetta has rpf ,ed an invitation to a banquet at Lyons on that day, ad'iin» that the real Republican anniversary should be the '2nd of September, when the first Republic was proclai med in 1792. Mr. Millard, the Radical Deputy for the Rhone, has written te the electors of Abresle, acceptn an invitation to celebrate the anniversary of the lu-j u'ulic of the 22nd of September. He says in his letter The dissolution of the Assembly is necessarily fast a-pj roaching. The nation cannot much longer de- mand vain the exercise of the Sovereignty." The Presto. t of the Council, in his speech closing the session of the Chamber, declared that the National Admin tration should harmonise with the general demon- otic character of French society. He acknow- ledged oat M. Thiers ought to assimilate the elements comj.o ig French society, but to obtain this result it Was ii; essarv to combine them, and not exclude the democi iric element, from a fear lest by its superior power ;■ should absorb the aristocratic element. The Presidfit trusted that the French Republic would one day bf.-otne a worthy sister of the Republic of the United states. An address has been sent to M. Thiers by 2{) <> it. of 31 CouncillM" of the Ardennes Company, Geneva! Chanzy expressing profound gratitude to the Pres d. t. of the Republic, and begging him to persevere in a uoin-se which secures for France, legally and pacifi- cally. a ii legitimate progress, and consolidates the only govern n ent that can render a revolution impossible. The Tr. IpS publishes a letter from Father Hyacinthe, in which the latter announces his approaching marriage abroad. THE IMPERIAL MEETING. FwrlJORTANT CIRCULAR OF COUNT ANDRASSY. VrFNW, Fridav Night.—Count Andrassy, in a Circu- lar Du.- .tch to the Austrian diplomatist abroad, states that he t"id had gratifying opportunities of explaining to the representatives of 111" Powers not participating in the i ii erview at Berlin the view held by Austria. He had sai-i thnt the interview of the three Emperors had no te- M r.c-y of a disquieting character for France, and he co )I -ouch for the Austrian Emperor sympathising with :1 Thiel's and the French nation nobly striving to ret- er tbe position necessary for the European equilibrium. Happily no conquest was possible except within the frontiers traced by destiny. Count Andrassv continue :—" I said to the British Ambassador that the circum>! an:;e that the Russian Emperor meets the ruler of Aii-i a and Hungary, for whom the prosperity of Turkey. ;d the stability of the Turkish Government is a question of primary inter-eat, could appear to the people i r England only as a proof that Hussia wholly enters i'^o "he same sentiments and the same wishes, and tha: Russian policy pursues no other ends than to promot. the developement of the germs of civilisation and the vestiges of ancient. wealth in the Sultan's Bmpi:-e. Count Andrassy concluded by saying—"We shall ah. ays be happy to agree with Russia and Great Brii i such a policy. We shall never become ac- complice to any other." [A telegram from Vienna state- t.I.n.t no such circular as the above has been addressed to the Austrian representatives abroad.] THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. GKNM X, Saturday.—Nothing fresh has transpired in connexion with the arbitration. The discussion turns upon a multitude of small details, but is progressing Gs„.September 2. T':e Court of 'iltra&S »t V"n fcl11 tilree the afternoon, and a join it d until Friday next, at noon. The end of its a 0l:: !;i rapidly approaching. It is positively ex- pected :;„.f all will be settled by the commencement of next xvi. n. Mr. Bowles, of the American Joint National f a\yVei,°y. ^las ^-suec^ invitations to 2,000 persons tion nexf' 'n honour of the Court of Arbitra- members of which are likewise invited to a g an t f i;,er on Saturday next, given by the Geneva estate Cc :ncil, at which the General Council as well as the Admtjisfrative and Federal Council of Berne will be present. Covers will ho laid for fifty. There is nothing new with regard to the dissensions between the English Minister and the Church Committee. lN'nv, YORK, September 1.—The Government con- tinue1 ti receive speoa] advices from Geneva of a favour- able character, but the amount ofdamnges to be awarded I to the U utcd States by the Court of Arbitration is not mentioned It is officially confirmed that the recall of General Sickles has been withdrawn at the request of the Sp i- ,sn Government. The American Government contn;ti, to urge upon Spain the abolition of slavery in Cuba -))e Herald describe the argument of "the Amene^'i eounsrl at the Courr. as a brilliant legal effort, Whico will, no doubt, exercise a aeuidca offoot on lho mind- he Arbitrators. The Herald hopes for an award a sum in gross, and has no expectation of obtai; a largeamount. It may be the English claims will bah ee, or more than balance, the account. THE rItOTESTANT CHURCH IN GENEVA GKXLX Sunday.—The English Church was crowded to-day. The rev. gentleman who officiated said he did so by or 'er of the committee and he believed with the sanction If tb-e Bishop. As he ascended the pulpit a large po rion of the congregation retired. GLNEVX, September 3.—The respective counsel are having tha fresh reports for Friday's sitting printed. The ag nation amongst the English residents here on the chaplaincy question is increasing. THE MEETING OF THE EMPERORS. Roju:, September 2 (Evening).—Tiie Opinione of to- day guy-; (,UI(. tbe report of a cicular having been ad- dressfdj. their representatives abroad by the Cabinets o vienn- Berlin, and St. Petersburg, with regard to enppr.i iching meeting the three Emperors, is devoid o oj„d,|,iion. On the other hand, semi-official verbal explanations of a most reassuring nature have been given to ,e Powers who had evinced uneasiness on the subject. u ° GERMANY. BEL:" September 3.-The Duke Maxmilian of Bavar.uncle of the King, arrived here at noon to- day, Biif. ill stay at the Royal Palace. Prince Gorts- chakoti arrived to-day. J) DT, September 3.—The Grand Duke of Hesse has inst ■. ed Herr Hoffmann, a member of the German Federal amcil, with the formation of a Cabinet. Herr Hoffnia is known to be a supporter of the Imperial policy. r,1HE SPANISH ELECTIONS. Maui. Saturday.—The complete returns give 294 Radical. :c, Republicans, 14 Alphonists, and 9 dynastic Consc-v,. ves. F VRFUL DISASTERS AT SEA. Purr u-iirA, August 30.-The steamer Metis, from ew Yo — for Providence, came into collision with a schoorev n Long Island Sound, off Stonington, this orniii| nd sank. 149 persons were on board, to of }oin iif,. aelieved to be drowned. jf "1m. Saturday.—The steamer Bienville, from k('7 tor Aspinwall, was burned at sea o;i the loth the ■ Passengers and crew took to the boats, and Two "f !'V reached Eleutbera Royal Island and Keys. Were dr e however, capsized, whereby 30 persons r, 'c, lied.
LETTER FROM DR. LIVING STONE.
FIXE. S0^X)n! ll/V0L,VING TUKKETS.-The firing of the: to test wi ,Vv.n from her fixed turret of the Glatton was to becou !■ 5Cr revolving gun of the latter was liable that the r,eare^ngt X1J »ction- result has shown tages of re vnlvTn 8 T? > *nd the manifest advan- ce Admiraltv fiP °,ver turrets has determined l w'n ^1 tlie f?71ier- The Hotspur, now »« toVoif'^1 ,hre mvternal fittines so modified one. For tb^ ^i^^ 1,6 by a revolving <^000 ne2Sffi°8e ParhameBt he asked to vote LETTER FROM DR. LIVING STONE. The Toronto Globe of the 18th ult. publishes a letter from Dr. Livingstone to his brother in Canada, from which we take the following extracts :— UJIJI, November 16, 1871. My dear Brother,—I received your welcome letter in February last, written when the cable news made you put off your suits of mourning. This was the first inti- mation I had that a cable had been successfully laid in the deep Atlantic. Very few letters have reached me for years, in consequence of my friends speculating where I should come out—on the west coast, down the Nile, or elsewhere. The watershed is a broad upland between 4.000 and 5,000 feet above the sea and some 70 miles long. The springs of the Nile that rise thereon are almost innumerable. It would take the best part of a man's life- time to count them. One part—64 miles of latitude- gave 32 springs from calf to waist deep, or one spring for every two miles. A birdseye view of them would be like the vegetation of frost on the window-panes. To ascertain that all of these fountains united with four great rivers in the upper part of the Nile Valley was a work of time and much travel. Many a weary foot I trod ere light dawned on the ancient problem. I went forward, backwartIs, and sideways, feeling my way, and every step of the way I was generally groping in the dark, for who cared where the rivers ran ? Of these four rivers into which the springs of the Nile con- verge the central one, called Lualaba, is the largest. It begins as the river Chambeze, which flows into 'he great lake Bangwolo. On leaving It, its name is changed trom Chambeze to Luapula, and that enters Lake Moero. Coming out of it, the name Lualaba is assumed, and it flows into a third lake, Kamolondo, which receives one of the four large drains mentioned above. It then flows on and makes two enormous bends to the west, which made me often fear that I was following the C ngo instead of the Nile. It is from two to three miles broad, and never can be waded at any part or at any time of the year. Far down the valley it receives another of the four large rivers above mentioned, Lockie, or Lomane, which flows through what I have named Lake Lincoln, and then joins the central Lualaba. We have, then, only two lines of drainage in the lower part of the great valley —this is, Tanganyika and Albert Lake, which are but one lake-river, or say, if you want to be pedantic, lacustrine river. These two form the eastern line. The Lualaba. which I call Webb's Lualaba, is then the western line, nearly as depicted by Ptolemy in the second century of our era. After the Lomame enters the Lualaba, the fourth great lake in the central line of drainage is fonml but this I have not yet seen, nor yet the link between the eastern and western mains. At the top of Ptolemy's 1 Loop the great central line goes down into large, reedy lakes, possibly those reported to Nero's centurion, and these form the western or Petherick's arms, which Speke and Grant and Baker believed to be the River of Egypt. Neither can be called the Nile until they unite. The lakes mentioned in the central line of drainage are by no means small. Lake Bangwolo, at the lowest estimate, is 150 miles long, and I tried to cross it and measure its breadth exactly. The first stage was to be an inhabited island, 24 miles long; the second stage could be seen from its highest point, or rather the tops of the trees upon it, evidently lifted up by mirage the third stage, the main- land, was said to be as far beyond but my canoe men had stolen the car.oe, and they go a hint that the real owners were in pursuit, ai d got into a flurry to return home. Oh, that th-y would but I had only my coverlet left to hire another craft, and the lake between 4.000 feet above the sea it was very cold, so 1 gave in and went back, but I believe the breadth to be between GO and 70 miles. Bangwolo, Moero, and Komolondo are looked on as one great riverine lake, and is one of Ptolemy's. The other is the Tanganyika, which I found steadily flowing to the north. This geographer's predecessors must have gleaned their geography from men who visited the very region. The reason why the genuine geography was neglected was the extreme modesty of modern map- makers. One idle person in London publishes a pamphlet which, with killing modesty, he entitled, Inner Africa laid Open," and in the newspapers — even in the Times —rails at any one who tr ivels and dares to find the country different from that drawn in his twaddle. I am a great sinner in the poor fellow's opinion, and the Times published his ravings even when I was most unwisely believed to be dead. Nobody but Lord Brougham and I know what people will say a'ter we are gone. The work of trying to follow the central line of drainage down has taken me away from mails or postage. The Manyema are undoubtedly cannibals, but it was long before I could get conclusive evidence thereon, I was sorely let and hindered by having half-caste Moslem attendants, unmitigated cowards, and false as their pro- phet, of whose region they have only imbibed the fulsome pride. They forced me back when almost in sight of the end of my exploration, a distance of between 400 and 500 miles, under a blazing vertical sun. I came here a mere ruckle of bones, terribly jaded in bodv and mind. The headman of my worthless Moslems remained here, and, as he had done from the coast, ran riot with the goods sent to me. drunk for a month at a time. He then div ned on the Koran and found that I was dead, sold off all the goods that remained for slaves and ivory for himself, and I arrived to find myself destitute of everything except a few goods I left in case of need. Goods are the currency here, and I have to wait, now till other goo 's and other men come from Zanzibar. When placed in charge of my supply of soap. brandy, opium, and gunpowder from certain Banians (British subjects), he was 14 lIouth8 returning, all expenses being paid out of my stocks three months was ample, and then he re- mained here and sold off all. You call this smart do you some do; if you don't. I think it moral idiocy. -Yours affectionately, DAVED LIVINGSTONE.
j FIRE AT CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
MR. STANLEY AND HIS CRITICS.—In a communication to the Daily Telegraph, Mr. Stanley remonstrates warmly respecting certain criticisms passed upon him, and the circulation of absurd stories fathered upon him, or with which his name is gratuitously associated. He says :— The only member of the Royal Geographical Society who seems to have a fair idea as to how the problem of the Nile will be eventually terminated is Mr. Findlay. Dr. Beke's letters to The, Times are unscientific, illogical, and unworthy the impression I conceived of the man. Though Sir Henry Rawlioson is great in cuneiform in- scriptions and Assyrian history, his ideas respecting Central African rivers and watersheds are wild, absurd, and childish—to use the mildest terms. If the Saturday Revieiv wishes to know what I do resent, let it be under- stood that I re8ent all manner of impertinence, brutal horse-laughs at the mention of Livingstone's name, or of his sufferings all statements that Livingstone is either insane or irritable, that he has no right to complain of being neglected, after such neglect has cost him 2,000 miles of hard marching and consequence fa igue, after being harassed and baffled by the miserable slaves sent to him "instead of men"; all insinuations that I have written, interpolated, or suggested one word, phrase, or quota hns in Livingstone's letters t'l the New York Herald aJI statements that I am not what I claim to be -an American all gratuitous remarks such as" sen- f afion;ili-irt)," as directed to me by that suave gentleman, Mr. Francis Galton, F.R.G.S., who evidently is no friend to Dr. Livingstone or to myself and all such nonsense as the Spectator has seen fit to attribute to my pm. I think myself that Dr. Livingstone is far happier pursuing the noble course he has taken, than he would be in England exposed to the taunts levelled at him by some of the "scientists" of the Royal Geographical Society, and such arrogant champions of it as the Spectator and Saturday Review. Mr. Stanley's labours have met with a most gracious recognition from Her Majesty, who has commanded Lord Granville to write to the young American expressing her "high appreciation of his prudence and zeal. "her thanks for the service which he has rendered," and her "congratulationson the success of the mission which he SO feailcaslj- un.lortoot" The letter is n.c.mmp;iniwl by a memorial" in the shape of a gold snuff-box richly set witii brilliants, and ou dit to go far to console Mr. Stanley for the various distinct slights to which he has been sub- jected since his arrival in England. As for the precise shape which the memorial" takes there is Jittle to which to object. A diamond snuff-box is by all precedent a Ivojal gift. A diamond telescope would have been an absurdity, and a sword cannot be presented to a civilian. Mr. Stanley himself will doubtless appreciate the Royal courtesy, and will value his present as highly as the Peabody family value the portrait of her Majesty and the autograph letter which came with it. When the service was compared it will be seen that the recognition accorded to each is in very graceful proportion. Mean- time, it ;s not unnatural that Mr. Stanley should feel a little nettled. We are pleased to observe that our re- maiks of last Sunday upon the absurd story about Living- store and Greely are the very defence" he would have liked to offer, and that the Spectator frankly confesses that it has been "caught napping"—without, however, thinking it necessary to apologise for its direct impu- tation of untruth. It admits thit it "ought to have preceived that the story was a fiction," but adds that the joke was "a poor joke." Our views of a joke are apt to vary according to circumstances. Poor as the joke was it yet took the Spectator in. And for the Spectator to first accuse Mr. Stanley of deliberate fiction, and then placidly observe that it has been caught napping" is exactly the kind of conduct which has very fairly roused Mr. Stanley's wrath. Thus, then, Her Majesty's letter is both gracious and well-timed, and inay serve to console Mr. Stanley for much of the very unfair and captious criticism to which he has been subjecterl.. CURES op COUGHS, COLDS, AND THROAT AFFECTIONS BY Dlt. LOCOCK'S WAFERS.—" 48, Hunslet-road Leeds. Dr. Locock's Wafers have a direct action on tbe affec- ted parts, and immediately allay pulmonary irritation. I believe thein to be free from all deleteriousingredients, and the most, safe remedy for Coughs, Colds, aud Throat Affections. Signed) J. T. Williamson." DR. LOCOCK'S! WAFERS giVe instant relief to Asthma, Consumption, j-oug-hs, Colds, Bronchitis, and all disorders of the throat 1,1 nf8- In Hysterical, Nervous, and Heart acf l?fcn i m Rheumatic and Nervous pains, they t&luST- ,*«!*»* .«»* <•<■- COCK'S WAFTMW • ,"NE»™and »pe»ker< DR. LO- ,ue ■ ln¥a''i*ble for clearing and Ft V ISMS'*0 '° •• Wofcberspoon V. Cur™,» .1, to the use of the word Glenfield" in connonti^ i Starch is indisputably established, we would also intimate that this decision renders the sale of the starch made bv the defendant illegal, and will subject the seller of it to* penalty of £ 10,000. We beg to intimate to those who may have been induced to buy It, that to save them from total loss, we will allow 20 per cwt. for it, at the Glen- field Starch Works, Paisley, in exchange for the genuine Article, at the current price. This will entail a loss upon ourselves, as the packets will be broken up and sold for Waste Starch, but it will be tbe means of render- ing the Article useless for further deception. Any in- formation that will lead to conviction will be rewarded. R. Wotberepoon & Co. j FIRE AT CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. The following telegrams were rcaeived in reference to this sad disaster :— CANTERBURY, Tuesday, II a.m.—The east-end of the Cathedral, viz., that portion of the altar, is at this mo- ment in flames, and burning rapidly. No water can at present be obtained. CANTERBURY, 12.5 p. m. Some details have now transpired respecting the origin of the fire. It appears that several men were at work on the roof of the Cathedral, repairing the lead coverin"- and it is supposed that the fire used for melting the metal accidentally shed its ashes, which came in contact with the woodwork. At a quarter past eleven the tiames had obtained perfect hold or the east-end of the roof over the altar and Thomas a'Beckett;; shrine. The direction of the wind favour; the spread of the flames. The whole of the garrison has been turned out. Immense excitement prevails. Water has been procured, and is now bein" freely used. a CANTERBURY, 1250 p.m. The fire ha- been got under, but the engines are still playing. The conflagration broke out a few feet from the extreme east-end of the kidding, and spread along the roof, a distance of 150 feet, which is totally destroyed Everything moveable was carried away from the interior" au it is supposed that the destruction inside is not so great as was anticipated. CANTERBURY, 2.30 p.m. The fire is now quite sublued. Molten lead has fallen through the roof upon the mosaic pavement in front of the shrine of A'Beckett, and the steps ieadingto the altar are deluged with water. Several fire-brigades from the neighbouring towns are arriving in the citv. It is saio that the roof and moveable articles in the Cathedral are insured in the Sun Office. The whole edifice is filled with smoke, hut the authorities in residence insist on holding a service during the afternoon, in order that the custom which has existed for three hundred years, may not be broken through.
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THE GENEVA ARBITRATION. (From the Special Correspondent of The Times.) GENEVA, August 31. The history of the Tribunal of Arbitration assembled at Geneva, when it shall hereafter be written by the light of information now withheld, and with the aid of documents which must ultimately be published; with the aid, also, of many incidents and facts of which the knowledge is at present confined to a few tongue-tied persons, will assuredly, although it may be somewhat lengthy, be read with curious interest, not only by states- men, lawyers, and diplomatists, but by all who take an interest in great contests between able men leading to a remarkable display of industry, acuteness, learning, and eloquence, and likewise, on the part of some, of strata- gems and devices to which it might be undignified and useless to object, but which, nevertheless, do not reflect honour to those who have recourse to them. It is rare that any meeting approximating in its nature to this one or any Council or Conference convoked for the conclusion of Treaties or the settlement of international questions has accomplished its labours with such secrecy as has hitherto been maintained '->y the Geneva Tribunal. Dur- ing the great Paris Conference of 1856 it was understood that secrecy was to be observed but yet the public were supplierl with a great deal of important information as to what went on. Here, at Geneva, about 30 persons have been from the first acquainted with all or the greater part of what occurred in the very numerous meetings which have been held at the Hotel de Ville ■ but their discretion has been proof against, all attempts to extract from them any information of the least value. Many things have been confidently asserted as facts in wb ch, perhaps, the propagators themselves believed, and more statements have been put forward the authors of which were conscious of their imaginary character. It is also more than probable that certain persons interested in the proceedings have allowed hints to escape them which they foresaw would be improved into statements they thought likely to benefit their cause. It has been supposed that the Indirect Claims were advanced less "ith the belief that any Arbitrators would ever coun- tenance such a monstrous attempt at extortion than with the idea that a certain moral influence would thereby be exercised on the minds of the Tribunal, which might unconciously be more disposed to lean towards America in the settlement of the comparatively small Direct Claims, because it had decided against her in the Case of the infinitely larger indirect ones. In like manner, some believe that recent reports persistently circulated, to the effect that England would be cast in damages to the extent ..f nearly or quite four millions sterling, have not been set afloat without an object. The journalists and telegraphic agents who readily accept and give currency to sucii statements may be sometiit.es too hungry for in- telligence accurately to measure the importance of what they circulate, or the possible motives of those on whose hints they speak. This question of damages, supposing damages to be granted,—and it is now quite certain that something will be granted,—is supposed to be in the hands of three persons, it being assumed that the English and the Ameiic n Arbitrators neutralize each other when it comes to a vote. It may he thought possible to pro- duce; an effect on the minds or those persons by making it appear that ubtic opinion is prepared to receive with- < out surprise, or even with favour, the news of a large awarl. We may hope that this idea is erroneous, and that the three distinguished foreigners on whom has been imposed the arduous task of mastering and settling the knotty Anglo-Saxon difficulty will be biassed by no con- siderations or influences save those of truth and equity and will be led into no trap3, however skilfully tbesa rany be disposed. There may be persons connected with this Council of Arbitration who hold that they do not violate their obligation of secrecy by partial revelations favour- able to their cause, and all the less so if those revelations be but partially true or so framed as to mislead. The strict secrecy imposed upon all whose position insured them more or less knowledge of what passed has been ascribed in great measure to the President of the Tribunal. There is no doubt that he has throughout been very dc- ci led in favour of maintaining such secrecy. It was an opinion of Cavour's that the press, to which he was willing to grant a wide range of liberty in the discussion of domestic politics, ought to be restricted in the ex- pression of its opinions on international topics. Pos- sibly Count Sclopis may share his illustrious country- man's views in this respect but, certainly, he will find many to agree with him that it was prudent and wise, in this case of discussions and negotiations of so deticate a character as those of which Geneva has now for months been the foeus, to insist on strict reo serve, and not to admit public opinion in the arena At the present advanced stage of the proceedings it is the opinion of some who are in the secret that the reserve so long maintained might safely be departed from. That may not be the opinion of Count Sclopis, and, possibly, it is I ot shared by a majority of the lawyers and diploma- tists en^a^ed, most of whom keep their thoughts upon the: s ibjeet, whatever those may be, strictly to themselves, the a ibjeet, whatever those may be, strictly to themselves, and rigorously and honouraùly adheie to their pledge. As you know, not all have been so scrupulous, and some scandal and displeasure have been excited here by recent disclosures. The unskilful attempts mlide to conceal the manner in which those documents were obtained, and to attribute their publicity to predatory enterprise, instead of to a breach of trust and faith, have deceived no one here. There is no moral doubt as to the real delinquents. Some pretty strong expressions are said to have issued from English mouths wish respect to the nature of the transaction, and we hear that the United Stated Ao-ent is annoyed and indignant at impropriety with which0 he repudiates all complicity. Probablv by this time the arguments allud d to have reached England through the New York paper to which there is reason to believe they were first communicated. Their subsequent publication In a well-eonducted, but, as yet, young and uninfluential European journal, which is to a considerable extent in American hands, was facilitated only when they were well on their way across the Atlantic, and has all the ap- pearance of a bit of bravado, as if it were desired to leave no doubt whence the revelation came. An opinion was expressed to you several weeks ago that the first news of what was passing before the Tribunal would reach you from the West, but it has hardly to be foreseen that those guilty of the indiscretion would take measures to show that it had been committed at Geneva, and not at Washington You are probably aware that the amount of the Direct Claims put forward by tlle United States is about six millions sterling, with the addition of interest, making a total amount of about eight millions. EXTRAORDINARY CHILD MURDER AT WARRINGTON.— An extraordinary case of infanticide his just occurred in Warrington. The facts, as they came out at the inquest are as follow :—On Saturday night, the 24th of August', between eleven and twelve o'clock. a woman, named Ellen Mary Herbert, heard the cries of the children com- ing out of the next house, which is occupied by a widow named Mrs. Mather, her daughter (Mrs. Stelfox, who lives apart from her husband), and a grandchild. She got a neighbour to go to Mrs. Mather's house, and whilst standing outside they looked through the parlour window and noticed the mother and daughter come downstairs' the former carrying a lighted candle and the latter ;'i newly-born baby, which she held by the leg and arm The baby began to cry, when Mrs. Stelfox said, "Ch mother, take and kill itbut Mrs. Mather made no re- ply. TheY then went upstairs again, and shortly after- wards Mrs. Stelfox's little boy was heard by the women outside to exclaim, "Po not kill it, mamma," and then Mrs. Stelfox said, It is dead now what shall I do with it, mother?" The baby uttered a plaintive cry, and Mrs. Mather replied, "Put it in the tub." The listeners heard a slight splash, and a sound as if the child were gasping in water. Mrs. Stelfox immediately afterwards washed up the bed room and the stairs, and then put on some clothes, and was going out of the house,^ when she saw the women outside, and turned back. No attempt was made by the listeners to prevent the child being kil'ed, though they heard everything that passed between the wornzn. One 'of them, however, told her husband what had happened, and he gave information to the police. The house was searched on their arnval, but they could not find the body, although there were marks of blood about. Nothing more occurred until last Friday morning, when the body of a full-grown newly-born female child was found in the canal at Sankey ridges, and Mrs. Stelfox was at once apprehended on suspicion of murder. In the meantime a surgeon examined her, a.nd he found that she ha.d been recently confined. A post mortem examination was ma.de on the body of the child found in the canal, and death was found to have been caused by inattention at birth, and direct violence on the top of the head. A rope and weight were attached to the child: Whilst in custody the prisoner acknowledged being de- livered of a child on Saturday week, which she put in a bucket of water, and afterwards carried it a.way the same night. She denied, however, that her mother had anything to do with its death. The cord tied to the child was proved to have been cut off a piece found in the house where the prisoner lived. The Jury ultimately returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Mrs. Mather and Mre. Stelfox." The murder has caused great excitement in Warrington.
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THE RATING QUALIFICATION OF LICENSED HOUSES. (From the Justice of the Peace.) The mode in which the Licensing Act, 1872, has dealt with the subject of rating is as follows The Act first provides for the qualification of premises which are to be licensed for the first time hereafter for the sale of in- toxicating liquors for consumption thereupon. This enactment will apply to all houses to be licensed in future, whether alehouses or beerhouses, or refreshment houses, where the liquor is to be consumed on the premises. The 45th section requires that the premises, unless such premises be a railway refreshment room. shall be of not less than the following annual value. If situated within London, and the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, or within the four mile radius from Charing- Cross, or within a town having a population of 100,000 inhabitants, £ 50 a year, or, if the license do not authorise the sale of spirits, £ 30 a year. If situated elsewhere, and within a town containing a population of not less than 10 000 inhabitants, £ 30 a year, or, if the license do not authorise the sale of spirits, £ 20 a year. If situated else- where and not within a town as above mentioned, £1:) a year, or, if the license do not authorise the sale of spirits, C12 per annum. The premises are also to be structually adapted to the class of license, and no house in which spirits are to be sold for consumption on the premises is to have less than two rooms, and in which spirits are not to be consumed on the premises, is to have less than one room for the accommodation of the public. This enact- ment raises very considerably the qualification of all bouses to be licensed in future, and so far as rating qualification can go will confine the acquisition of licenses to a class of persons of considerably larger means than hitherto. The above provisions are, by the same 45th section, not to apply to premises to which at the passing of this Act that is, on the 10th of August, 1872, no license under the Acts recited in the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869 authorising the sale of beer or wine for consumption on the premises was attached, and the qualification for houses licensed "not to be consumed on the premises" is re- pealed. The qualification for other premises is laid down in the next two sections. By the 46th section it is enacted that whereas in certain cases a license under the Wine and Beerhouse Acts, 1869 and 1870, is not be granted unless the house and licensed premises'are of such rent and value, or are rated to the poor rate on a rent or annual value of such amount as is respectively stated in the Acts recited in the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, an 1 it is expedient to substitute in such cases "annual value" for the said rent, value, or ratine and to provide for the ascertaining the annual ouch house and premises then it is enacted that a license under the Wine and Beerhouse Acts, 1S69 and 1870 shall not be granted in respect of any premises which are not, in the opinion of Licensing Justices, of such annual value as is mentioned in that behalf in the Acts recited by the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1869, as if "annual value" were therein substituted for "rent," value," "rated on a rent or annual value," or other like expressions. It is then enacted by the said 46th section that if at the first general annual licensing meeting after the pas- sing of this Act, that is, in August and September, 1872, the Licensing Justices are of opinion that any premises which are licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors at the passing of this Act are not of such annual value as authorises the grant of a license for such premises, they may, notwithstanding, renew such hc™syU>on the con- dition, to be expre-sed in the licence that the holder thereof, before the next general annual licensing meeting, that in 1873, improves the premises, so as to make them of sufficient annual v due and if the holder fail to comply with such condition, the license shall not be renewed at such next general annual licensing meeting. The result of this enactment is that the rating qualifi- cation of premises licensed unaer the Acts recited in the Wine and Heerhouse Acts on the 10th August, 1872, for consumption on the premises is to remain the same as before, except that if the Justices, on revising the annual value, think it is not up to the mark, they may renew the license or certificate till next year, but if the premises are not by that time improved in value so as to stand the test, the license or certificate is not then to be renewed. It is not unlikely that many houses are now enjoyinq the reputation of an annual value which they are not entitled to' Still it is not unlikely that the djfference between the real annual value and the vame fixed by the resp-c- tive enactments is not so considerable that the holder of the license cannot fetch his premises by a little outlay up to the marle If we cannot do so, then the present re- newal of his license must be his last. He may, however, remove to better premises in the meantime. The 47th section states the general grounds on which the Licensing Justices are to arrive at the annual value." They are to follow the familar outline of the Parochial Assessment Act but they are not to be bound by any valuation other than what they themselves think satis- factory. The result, therefore, of all the changes produced by the Licensing Act, 1872, is this—that as to alehouses now licensed they are to remain as before and, as to alehouses to be licensed in future, and beerhouse-, and refreshment houses to be licensed in future for consumption on the premises, they are to be of the annual value set out in the 45th section. As to beerhouses, &c., licensed '• not for consumption on the premises," either at present or in future, there is to be no qualification and, as to beer- houses, &c., now licensed for consumption on the premises, they are to remain as before as regards qualification. But in all cases the annual value" is to be ascertained in the way described in the 47th section.
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GAZETTE NEWS. (From Friday''s Gazette). BANKRUPTS. (To surrender in London). Blee Jules, Glasshouse-street, Regent-street, London, tavern keeper, Sept. 10. Speat, William, Princes-street, Barbican, London, marine store dealer, Sept. 12. (To surrender in the Country). Butler, Thomas, Winson-street, Birmingham, coke dealer, Sept. 11, at Birmingham. Rechtman, WilliamS., Broadway, Deptford, corn dealer, Sept. 24, at Greenwich. Washington, William Henry, Dexter-street, Liverpool, licensed victualler, Sept. 17, at Liverpool. BAN:-UI;JPTCIHS ANN ULLED. Clarke, Augustus Stanley, Atccmbe ourt, near Stroud, Gloucestershire. (From Tuesday's Gazette). BANKRUPTS. (To Surrender in London.) Weimnis Henry, trading as O. Cramer and Co., Finsbury- cireus, London, merchant. Peverlay, Robert, Basinghad-street, London, attorney. (To surrender in the Country). Waghorn, William Reeves, Watford, Herts, draper. Olsen, Thomas Ferdinand, South Shields, general out- fitter. Telfer Thomas and Telfer John, Hexham, Northumber- land, hay and corn dealers. Bowman, William, Sunderlmd, agent. Hardy, William, Fleetwood-on-Wyro, Lancashire, gen- tleman. Beinet, William Ford, Emsworth, Hants, surgeon. BANKRUPTCIES ANNCLLKD. FeliceNagglar and David Ha;an, Manchester merchants. Nuttall, Fnmcis Dixon, Nutgrove, near St. Helen's, Lnn- cashire, glass bottle manufacturer burgess, William Belvedere, Kent, house agent. LIQUIDATIONS BY ARRANGEMENT. Steel, Henry, Swansea, labourer. Seager, William. Cardiff, al Hohnan, Richard Eastman, Bidetord, butcher and auc- tioneer. Dyke Williim Yeovil, grocer. Veal,'J0hn 'ch'urch-farni, Biddies tone, Wilts. Whitfield, Frederick Henry, Frogmore-street, Bristol, wine merchant.
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ME. STYNIEY AT TIIB SAVAGE CLUB—On Saturday night Mr H M. Stanley, the African traveder, was en- tertained by the members of the Savage Club, and upon Ius health being proposed by Mr Bandmann who was the president of the evening, he delivered a characteris- tic speech which was loudly cheered. In the course of his remarks he replied with much earnestness to those who had attempted to prove the improbability of his statements It was, he said, at his own option to leave ofr the expedition whenever be deemed it right. He went to Uiiii and his surprise at finding Livingstone was as great as ours might have been. He found him in want, and illness and he relieved linn. In his position the very sight of a white mOll was enough to stave off dark presentiments. Why should Englishmen be jealous because he discovered bim ? lhere was that PaIe and attenuated old man, who had spent thirty five yaars in exploring the interior of Africa, with hIS heart buoyed up by hope that on his arrival at a eer:am place he would find everything be required, when tnere was no- thing awaiting him. What vvas more nnturd t han hat they should clasp hands ? VV hat matter was it whether it was a Turk a Russian, a frenchman a Dutchman, or an Englishman, so long as be brought help. CLOSE OF THE ENGLISH SALMON FISHINO.—The fish- lng for salmon (except with rod and line) closed for the season on Saturday last at noon, and the close time will last up fo Febuary I, 1873, during which interval it is unlawful to sell salmon, except foreign and imported fish. Salmon, however, may be taken with rod and line (but not sold) up to the end of October. Ihe fieli has been showing- symptoms of bad condi ion for a week or two past. In the principal salmon rivers which fall into the Bristol Channel-the Severn Lhe Wye and the Usk -the fishing has been varied. The lower fishings in the estuary reaching from belaw Gloucester to Newport have not been so good as usual, except about Newport, the lowest of the three rivers. Hereabouts the fishing has been highly successful, and a great many fish have abo run up the river and been taken by net and rod in the fresh water. In the Wye estuary, and that part of tbe Channel near its mouth, the fishings have not been so good as usual but in the fresh water up to and above Hereford the fishing has been better than usual. In the upper part of the channel, which forms the Severn fish- ing district, the fishing has been bad. Fewer fish have been taken in the eetmu-y by a great many. The price of Severn fish commenced in febuary at 4s. ad., and finish- ed lost week at h. 6d, per ft;
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I l>mwti 1 Her Majesty has invited Mr Stanley to visit her at Bal- moral on Saturday. The Darlington magistrates have ordered that men swearing in the streets shall he summoned. ,^rs- Fawcett have left London on walking tour in the Alps. therrmir!^has been elected one of the members of the Jstromness Parochial Board. The Journal de Grand savs tlmf t> c -n- i -i- arrive at Ghent for the fctlSthol f es wiL of the Belgians. amu tmie as tllfe KluS The Marseilles journals announce t1 P riQ, J. from that port of D. Del sol, a FrwicL^v.lle'wb; for the countries exjjlored by Dr. Livingstone leavlllg The number of emigrants who left Livernool ,1, August was 18,700, which is a decrease of 011 h month last year. ou the S:u"e On Tuesday night last a seaman atCowesshotacom- panion. and afterwards hims jlf. Both are in a precarious state. Tiverton enjoys a happy immunity from crime. With a population of 10,000 it has had no prisoner confined in the gaol for III days. It is stated that the Duke of Beaufort has sold his Gloucestershire estates to a rich BristlJI merchant fur £ 160,000. The Bolton Gas Co. was on Wednesday formally dis- solved, consequent upon the transfer of the HtHlert, i,in:; to the corporation. A party of thieves made a raid ovi the bathing-houses at Atlantic City a few days ago, and reaped a rich harvest of watches and spare cash frem the clothes of the bathers. The revenue returns from Ap'-il 1st m \u--> ^Pst show • ™1Sh^S'w'971~last yea'" ^2.052:exp'end"itnre; 430,3^2,29d—last year, £ 30.242,935; balances, £ 5 695 603 —last year, £ 1,936.763. ,The Sj€C?e says: Arthur Dardenne, the last of the men who took part, in the storming of the Bastille, died on bunday at the Hospice St. Louis, at the a<*e of 97 vrars minus two daya. ° A rumour is current that Mr. J. D. Harris will not again seek re-election after the dissolution of the present Parliament; and in some quarters the name of the pre- sent Mayor of Leicester, Mr. John Stafford, is men- tioned in connection with the representation of the = borough. The Home Secretary having received from the Kor- wich magistrates an official statement as to the late fracas upon the local bench; has called upon Major Bijrnold and Mr. Wiffen Blake for an explanation of their conduct. Messrs. M Arthur, M'Lean, and Co., ship-owners and sugar-brokers, Grecnock, suspended payment on Tuesday, with liabilities, it is stated, of about :£100,000. Their suspension is attributed to rash speculation in raw sugar. The long hoped for announcement of the London builders'strike being at anendwasmaieon Wednes- day. The suggested compromise has been accepted, and on <\ ednesday last work was pretty generally re- sumed. ° The ex-Mayor of Plymouth, who is a Nonconformist, has resigned the chairmanship of the School-board because he disapproves of levying a rate for the support of denomina- tional education. The payment of the rate will be J esi-ited in the town. Mr. Lowe's instructions to the Mint to coin silver at the rate of £ 50,00'J a week up to £ 1,000.000 do not seem to have been carried out. There is said to he con- siderable scarcity still, and some banks aie hoarding silver. ° The Tyla Ooch Steam Coal Colliery has been sold by auction at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, it having been, after some sharp bidding, knocked down to Mr. Thos. Jones of Minwdy House, Borth, the former proprietor for £ÖO,lOO. The North-Eastern Railway Co. have advanced their fares. The price of single j -urney tickets is not altered nor is there any diminution of third class accommodation- but the charges for return tickets are increased to the pro- portion of one fare and two-thirds instead of one fare and a half as formerly. A novelty at Dundee Regatta was a race for four-oared fishing yrwis rowed by fi.dier girl-. The Pet Lambs wearing straw hats and striped bodices, who Wall I he first prize at Broughty Ferry Regatta, won thence easily. Only another boat competed. The rowing is said to have been admirable. At Washington it is stated officially that the Geneva arbitration is progressing satisfactorily, and by the mid- die of September we may expect to hear of the arbitrators finishing their tak. An award in lump is looked for, but no indication is given of the amount expected. An early termiwltion is anticipated. The art world will grieve to hear of the death of Mr.W* Gray, a young artist who displayed much of Leech's abi- bility, and who, his friends hoped, would attain to that master's celebrity. Hut he suffered from a grievous ma- lady, to which he has just succumbed, at the earjv age of 36, leaving an infant child. A great fire occurred at the North-eastern Railway goods depot, Leeds, on Sunday morning, and continued during the earlier part of Monday. The damage, it is thought, will not amount to more than one hundred thou- sand pounds. A large portion of the goods destroyed were insured. Two strangely illogical lovers have between them pro- duced a melancholy suicide. W. Knapp withdrew from his engagement to Mary Clayton, because his mother or his employer would not allow him to marry any girl who was not a teetotaler. Miss Clayton, after receiving this cruel intimation, went and got run over by a train on the South-eastern Railway, near Redhill. A Scotch paper records an instance of extraordinary ac- tivity on the part of au English commercial traveller I have not been idle (said the gentleman in question to a friend). I have changed my profession, married a wife have a little son, had the house on fire, done the rebuild- ing, got a presentation, and won a law-suit, all in the first twelvemonth. It is quite astonishing, says the AToo York Tribune^ to find a man 103 years old hanging himself, as William George did at Rochester, Illinois, last week for since death at any rate must be close at hand, the trouble of a rope, of finding a place of suspension, and adjusting the j halter seems to be hardly worth taking. If we have any reader who is 103 years old. we advise him to be patient. Whitt is left of his mortal coil will shuffle i'self soon enough. A few days ago a diWedifctMe scene occurred on t? e Norwich Bench between two magistrates, Capt. Bigr.old and Mr. W tfen Blake, who were sitting at the BrewsH-r Sessmns. Capt. Biguold called Mr. Blake an old fool and there was a tight. Mr. Yo::e!l interposed to separate the combatants, who were rolling on the floor, and he was strllck. For this assault on Youell, Blake was on Monday lined 40s. and costs. It is not improbable that the Lord Chancellor will revise the list of Magistrate* in the Nor- wich division. The Times is of opinion that not many lines of railway would profit more largely .than the Great Western by an expansion of the cheap passenger traffic. Both as a plea- sine ii'ie and asabusiness line the railway which con- nects the great port of the West of England with the metropolis ought to rely much on the working peo- pie ho, for husiness or pleasure, throng the third-class trains If Sir Daniel Gooch and his colIengues cannot see this at present, men so shrewd aud so successful in grappling with real difficulties cannot long remain blind to fa*. A collier named Jones, who was employed at the Risca Colliery, has been charged with a verious ofFence, wilfully and maliciously stopping a ventilating engine at the Risca Colliery with intent to impede the work of the colliery. It has been the custom at this colliery for some time to set the ventilating engine at work on Sunday night and to send a staff of men to perambulate the working to see that all is right before the men go to work on Monday While this was being done on Sunday w, ek Jones stopped the engine, but the driver not being far off there was no serious result. The magistrates dismissed the man, on the ground that no malice was proved. The London correspondentof the SJOW., Tim estates that Mr. Bennett, of the New York Herald, has entered upon a new enterprise of great magnitude. He has despatched afreshexpedition-as secretly as Mr. Stanley was des- patched—to explore the Nile with Sir Samuel Baker and with that gentlemen to discover the fountain head of that great river The \iceroy of Egypt, it is stated, is so far satisfied with the energy of the Herald's correspondent that he has consented to pay ons-half of the expen- ses ot the staff now on its way to Gondokoro from that paper. A scoundrel named Judge has just been sentenced at t:ie Middlesex session to two years'imprisonment with hard labour for the circulation of filthy literature. His method was to issue a catalogue, which in itself was an imamy, then to prepare a series of indescribably indecent transparent cards, with pictures of a similar nature, and afterwards to offer them for sale through the medium of the post. His stock of these abominations might be counted by thousands. His circulars were generally to! the young'in all parts of the country, and the amount of moral injury this traffic was calculated to inflict it is e'ifficult to estimate. Two years' imprisonment arc as nothiug with the atrocity of Judge's offence against society. The Cologne Gazette states that Paul May and Hermann Nagel were both clerks in a Berlin house of business, which they robbed persistently. As an enquiry was set on foot, they escaped, having furnished themselves by a last robbery with the means for travelling. The Berlin Crown piosecutor communicated at once with the English authorities when he heard of the crime at Chelsea Paul May has, it is stated, so far improved that on Sunday night the policeman who had been at his bedside in St. George's Hospitil was relieved from duty, and now the task of watching hun is entrusted to the ordinary hot- pital attendants. A further improvement must take place before any attempt at the extraction of the ball can be made. The new Licensing Act is being enforced with rigour in some parts of the metropolis. In Clerkenwell police dis- trict nearly <0 publicans have been summoned for in- fringing the early-closing provisions. At High gate on Tuesday the bona fide traveller question came before the magistrates. Two licensed victuallers were fined for having opened before the legal hour on a Sunday, and penalties were also inflicted upon those who were drink- ing in the houses at the time. In the City, after the passing of the Act, a few houses received the special per- mission of the Police Commissioner to keep open until one o'clock in the morning. It is now, however, an- nounced that "after due inquiry and careful considera- tion," it has been decided not to permit any licensed pre- mises to be open after midnight* .A i-?ad P5To.iV.— A ,-iiiry ol no iii,ci ii-; consequences is told by the Paris Sieclc. M. de 13-- fought in the campaign ol the Loire as lieutenant in the Mobile Guard. ounded in the bead, he was taken prisoner, and remaiiie in Germany for some months. On being •\t free, lie returned home, ,-md found that his young had e! pel with one of his friends, deserting her >•'•>•! two Ye'.r>ki. 51. de B could learn no 1 ,g. 0f e-, aud givi.ig her upas lost, came to Paris up I:C(' day or two ago, wjli!e • uiing up 'lie Pout clel-i Co' c rde, he came aero-s his v f. ,sii v,,i. in r.-g- T '1 s, and had evidently j; into 11 ■ <■ lowest, depii. • 1 v;ce and miserv. He jv ,,a<- ie 1 it" a'd on e i out her na.nf, "apped e or, the sh ild. r. SlieM. i, (I round, gave a shriek, :!1i,1 ,ln ,,|f ,!e 15 r s-. <*d after her. far .n vain. e .e he <• ui-t catch •% she had m.r.-K-d tlie per a- -1 brown herielf '.i:'o the S.-ine. A rapid c, ent m»r e her away, r.-ui when her b -dy wa> re- covered life wa, exti C:. WHY COAL« ARE SO T)F has just returned from a short journex -*oru. a«,d South Wales aed the Midland 'Counties, sends to t ie Financier what that journal calls a very ?u.*go-ive letter:—There is very little difference between the posjtiot- of the collieries there than with us in Lan .hire. h\i-iyvvIlen- I notice the same iliing; the collieries lull 5'' °rc'ers iUld old contracts .many of them still at ve-T low rales), and every where t h- men more inclined for recreation than w.uk, and determined not to allow any stocks to be put <m the bank of the pit. In fact, they >eeiu to ni.in ge the matters-o well that where they know their masters liuie pressing contracts they take care that they are kept in arrear. Under such cireum- s ances there i;: not a colliery proprietor who will enter into any new contracts, even at the present greats en- chanced prices, and the time is rapidly approaching when a great. many industrial establishments will be stopped for want of coal, say, when their present coal contract-art, at an end. In many instances it has ceased to be a question of price. In some localities coal is not to be had in quantities at any price, and often, when a manufacturer wants lilO or 200 tons a week froll1 a eolliery, it is only as a great favour, and because he has been a good customer for many years, that 20 to 60 t"\l1" It week are given hinl. As to taking on new customers, even if they come with cash in hand, no coal proprietorthinksof lookintr at them. Thisis about the real state of thinys in all the coal districts of Eng- land, and, I believe, also, of 8c. ,tland." The Tichb une cl dmant is bidding fair to become a pubic nuisance. What with the claimant himseif what with Mr. Whal'ey, and Mr. Guidford Onslow what with Mr. Abraham Auidjah, and Captain Hunt, and Mr. G. H. Manley, and "young Napier," the public has no peace, and hears with incalculable dismay that there are still several matters pending between Mr. Anidjah and Mr. Guildfonl Onslow, and generally between the cLtimant and each and all of those who have had anything to do with him. It would perhaps he idle to suggest to the claimant that we have had enough of him, and that wa wish to hear no more about either himself or his friends until the time arrives for his trial. If he and his hench- men fall out they have a right, as British suoject«, t, air their griev inces in the police cuuet, But yet, for his own sake, the claimant would do well not to make hims-df too cheap. Sir John Coleridge's ill-advise 1, intemperate, and inordinately b ngthy attack di-posed a certain section of the public to regard the fat man as a martyr. That WI- pression is now rapidly fading away, and the gale of public sympathy is beginning to blow cold again. So far we have to cOIwratulate ourselves, as it is very desirable that the pending trial should be more judicially and dis- passionately conducted than was the interminable case in the Lourt of Common Pleas. But at the sometime, if it be a matter of any conCern to the claimant that the Tiehborne def nee and sustentation funds should make way, he will in the interval hetween now and his next great appearance in Ihe court be careful not to trust him- self too obstrusively upon tie- public notice A FATHER PUTTIXG HIS DAUGHTER IN CHAINS.—At the Poritvpool police-court, on Saturday, a brickmaker, named Cnarles Payne, WIIS arpigncrl before Messrs. Ken- nard, Byrd, Richards, and the Rev. J. C. Llewellcn, charged with assaulting hisdam-h^er, Abua Payne, a ;irl nearly sixteen years of and also with assaulting Police- constables Builey and Burrow- t Puninewvdd. The evi- dence showed 'hat the prisoner Had xvith a long cart chain, linked together with handcuffs, chained his daughter's le^-s tojtelher so that she could just shuffle along, and also bound the ell dn roun 1 her neck. In this state he drove her to fetch a ouekft of water, and was pullinjr at the Chain round her threat till she was dark in her face, when some women saw him, and, screaming ''murder," ran for the police. When the constables went 10 the brickfield to arres hill" tlw, were led to believe by his manner, and his thrusting his hands into his pockets, that lie intended to stab theai, an 1 hey threw themselves upon him, and took a K.'I.V fro HI his pocket. He resisted violently, hit Bur'ey's hands, attempted t-j bile Uurru'.rs in the vital part, and kieked both constables, and they had to get rbe assist- ance of four other fllen to helf- ,1 him to the lock-up, Burrows aivimr him a bl irk e\ p with his staff in trying to make him delist from biting. The prisoner's defence was that the sirl had exasperated him by a series of petty thefts, and that be WI" xviiliiii; ÎII go with the pollee quietly, bur t';ey shamefully ill-treated tun. Police-cons' able Bir- rows sa-itl be believed tha' Ih," mother also was in the lllbit of ili-tre «tin;r the girl. The ch tins were produced in Court, and caused quite a thrill of ho.-ror. Burrowsstidhehad to set a cold chisel to get them off the girl's neck, and had to be very careful when tbey were cut, brough. 1\11-, Ken- nard lpctured the prisoner on his treatment of bis daughter, telling him he mi^ht htt& been charged with a more serious offence, lOeeing the stHteJjKMFhich the ^-irl was, and his be- haviour to the police was most disgusting and disgraceful. He was, therefore, sentenced to six months' bird labour without the option of a fine. Slowly, but unmistakably, our rail vay companies ap- pear to \),< learning that the best of all their customers are those whom they have neglected for many year. The third-class traffic on the principal tines is now worth. as much as that of the first and second classes added together and yet this traffic as groxvn up in face of every dis::onrigeinent and slight which the companies could put upon the ptror travellers Wiun passenger train fif>t ran, who does not remcmb r the open trucks, defence- less against the whether, in which the third-class ticket- holder wns^expected to ride? Young pe .pie can scarcely belIeve such a tradi IOllnbnt, winter anJ summer alike the outraged third" was put in the same kind of wao. 0-on as th-'t which the navvy loads and unloads. Even now, how uncomfortable are the best carriages of this kind—badly ligh ed, without straps or nets or th ■ least convenience of any sort! They are soldo:n, indeed, a*>y- thine- better then the old open truck covered at the top. However, of late, directors, looking into their traffic returns, and noting xvliat was til 3 proportion ^of tlurd- cl-ss ticket^, conceived the idea of providing ior ueese patients passengers by giving them seats in tvory traUl. The Midland did so first; the other principal lines followed suit; and it was announced as rather a grand piece of benevolence, and adopted with a certain flourish of moral trumpets. In reality it was the shrewdest stroke of business which the companies could have devi-ed thus to atta 'h third class carri tges to every train Those lines which have adopted the new and reasonable system have gained remarkably by the change. The London and North-Western records aa increase amount- ing to f3,075 weekly the Great-Xorthern takes an extra .61,733 the Lancashire and Yorkshire nets £',140; and the Midland, kl,f>06. There can he little dou-'t, after this result, that all other Jim's will d,,) the simeactof justice to themselves and their poorer cnstumcls ami we cherish th • hope that, when t'»e foreign railway bureaux see these figures, the absurl an 1 unfair cudoin of con- fining express service to wealthy first- lass voyages will begin to die away. As a matter of fact, the better the treatment of the million, the richer will be the results for the raiBvaw company. There runs the vein which in inexhaustible and we advi-e d rectors to go reforming bold y, to give tbe common peple" better carriages, more comforts, kinder cons der ition, and low fares, with good and s'wift service. For every penny so staked the people' will pay them back three-halfpence. They have just begun to travel. THK IK-UI>EN OF COLONIAL DEFI-NCK.—A. metropolitan contemporary, in an article on the needless aid of large and weli-to.do colonies by the stnad and over-taxed population of the Home Islands, remarks :—" Since Earl Grey's time our colonies have been neglected but soo er or later we must, reduce our expenses, and try ro rise to the idea of a confederation, of which England shall, indeed, be tl/e nucleus, but ¡o¡ whicil each member should, according to means and population, bear a tdiare of the work of defence, And the same may be said of our naval expenditure. Here nothing whatever lias been done to teach the colonists self-help. Our c domes receive the lull benefit of squadrons to the support of which they contributed as mochas do the people of the United States. On tie shoulders of a fraction rest this Atlant can load of cost. Now, though a good deal of useful saving may be effected by means of striking off naval superfluities—say, by giving soju-ihitig less than one and a seventh of an admiral to evcru two shins—it is vain to try to effect a considerable reduction until we bid our colonists to be-tir themselves And '-u-v h would not be unfair to request, as the price of British citizenship, willingness to contribute one's OLL;t I to the common defence. Let us distinctly realise',he line ol procedure by which we have hitherto travelled, and we shall at otice own its impropriety. We ought not to need a large ufandbui army for the defence ->f this coun- try. The total population of the United Kingdom is a little over 31,000.000, while the population of the Empire is 198,900,000. For the naval protection of this aggregate the former pay every farthing. Setting aside India, which is self-supporting in so far as the army is concerned, there are still about fifty millions who depend, more or less, on the thirty-one millions ni home for military protection. Is this right i Can an Army Bill or Navy Estimates which proceed on the assumption that this policy is proper be final in their character?" But this stateof things, will continue so long as the present culpable neglect of the consti- tuents' real interests is overlooked by the electors, a subject on which another metropolitan journal remarks: —As foreigners tell us, we are a bizarre race. Here we have been pounding away at representation of the people biits at electoral corruption at equal electoral districts at the ballot and at the female sufirrtge-and we have never given a thought '.o the falsification of the representative system which is committed every day Parliament meets. The public mind remains undis- turbed whiie some thirty or forty gentlemen doze over a vote to supply millions of money; while measures of vital importance are disposed of in an empty House and while every day shows that priv<"»U interest, or personal conveni«noe, sways the vast majority of the nation'g representatives, to tbe confusion, delay, and ndangerment of public business.