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NEXT WEEK We shall have great pleasure in presenting our readers with the First Chapter of a SERIAL TALE, ENTITLED THE MISSING COIN; OR, A LOVER'S CONSCIENCE, "Which will be completed in three or four successive weeks.

town TALK. BY OWE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Our readers Kill understand that we do■ not UU° "Vi- sible/or our able Correspondent s opinions. Now that the excitement of the elections is over, the subject for common talk will cease to be "Who has got in ? and turn upon that equally interest- ing question, Who is to be put out ? I am told that a great number of petitions have been filed, and that some very ugly revelations have to be made. It is quite certain that a vast amount of money has been spent, and soon the com- mittees at the House of Commons will be at work to decide whether the expenditure has been all fair and above-board. It is certainly not a bad thing to possess those qualities which will ensure your being a popular candidate." One of the most popular candidates who stood for a London borough was certainly that great "muscular Christian," the author of Tom Brown's School- days." Personally, Mr. Thomas Hughes is well known to most London working men. He is a great don at the Working Men's College, and an officer in the famous volunteer corps composed entirely of working men. It seems that Mr. Hughes cannot get his committee to send in his bill for election expenses. Their answer is straight- forward and to the point; Mr. Hughes has nothing to pay. The electors of Lambeth have started a shilling subscription, and intend their favourite to take his seat in the House of Commons without any bitter reflections about the price paid for that honour. I may be excused, I hope, for harping a little more on this already well-worn election string. A glance at the list composing the new House will show that many of the counties have returned some very young men, most of them fresh from college. At West Norfolk, for instance, there is the Hon. T. D. Grey who, only last year was playing in the Cambridge University Eleven at Lord's. At West Kent, again, we have Mr. D. H. Dyke, the best racket player in England, and who but a very short time since might have been seen supporting the honour of the University of Oxford at Prince's courts. South Shropshire has sent to Parliament Mr. Jasper More, a young man of about four-and-twenty, who has just been called to the bar. Turning again to Chester and South Yorkshire, we find young Mr. Gladstone and Lord Milton, neither of whom has left college so very long ago. The day may perhaps have come in which we are to discover a second William Pitt. The new Lord Chancellor has already been in- vited to dine with the Queen. This fact has given rise to not a little gossip; and all on a sudden people have begun to remember how very seldom a similar honour was extended to the late occupant of the woolsack. This early compliment to Lord Cranworth may, at any rate, be inter- preted into meaning that the recent change of office is not regarded by her Majesty with any feelings of dissatisfaction. Two great female notabilities have been honouring us with a visit. It is said that the Queen of the Netherlands came on an im- portant mission, being deeply interested in a certain project concerning a matrimonial alliance, in which one of the members of the Royal family of England is concerned. Nous verrons. The visit of the Dowager Queen of the Sandwich Islands, who is staying with Lady Franklin, has no political object. She seems to be a very clever woman; and if her dark features cannot be called pretty, there is an amiable expression that is cap- tivating; it is believed she has undertaken the pilgrimage with a view to the advancement and elevation of the country of her birth. Her hus- band had determined to visit England, but pre- band had determined to visit England, but pre- mature death prevented him, and now the widow is carrying out that which her partner had planned. When talking of marriage in the Royal family just now, I ought to have alluded to the bursting of that bubble of gossip which was blown about not long since, connecting the names of the PrincessotjIary of Cambridge and Lord Hood. His lordship has just married a Miss Ward. Even yet I have not quite done with marriages. Lord Stanley is to marry the only daughter of Earl Stanhope. It was only the other day that the Pall Mall Gazette got into serious disgrace with our lively neighbours on the other side of the Channel, for a mis-statement about the Congress. But it seeing that accuracy is not a very strong point with French newspapers. What will be thought of an announcement in L'Opinion Rationale, which alluded to the retirement of "M. Panizzi, a director of the British Museum, one of the best- known English scientific journals! But this is only one of the many mistakes made by French newspapers. A short time ago an organ of some standing took the Piraeus for a man, and an- nounced that the captured Dardanelles were to be brought prisoners to England. Some weeks ago 11 a leading Paris paper placed to the account of Mr. Gladstone all the charges alleged against the Lord Chancellor and only a fortnight since it pub- lished a letter from Mr. Cobden to his constituents. But last week almost all the II great journals" in Paris deplored the defeat of Mr. Gladstone in i Lancashire. The Patne said: The electoral defeat of the Chancellor of the Ex. chequer is now complete. The electors of South Lancashire have not repaired the check sustained,by I m at Oxford. A dispatch announces the election of Iwr. Eserton, who has had nearly 4(J0 votes more than If. ine and the London press informs us that public opinion was greatly affected by this double defeat of the Chancellor of the Exchequer." And all the others followed suit. The last blunder is concerning the Atlantic telegraph, and is pub- lished in La Presse, which is edited by M. Emile Girardin. He tells the public that- The Times has just received from its Calcutta correspondent a telegram dated the 21st of July, an- nouncing that the Atlantic telegraph cable was landed on that day from the south connection, and two miles paid out to sea, &c." Now, every one knows that Valentia, where the telegraph was first landed, is on the Irish coast, and very far removed from Calcutta. While walking over Westminster-bridge the other day my attention was directed to that portion of the Thames Embankment nearest to the Houses of Parliament. About fifty yards of the em- bankment, just at this spot, is quite finished, and looks admirable. Already, too, preparations have been made here for the commencement of the underground railway. It was certainly wise on the part of the contractors to make a little show at Westminster, in order that vigilant M.P.'s might be satisfied and persuaded that their pet scheme was going on satisfactorily. I wonder if the very excellent suggestion which has been made lately has any chance of being adopted. It is to call the new bridge over the Thames at Blackfriars the Shakespeare bridge, and surmount it with a statue of the poet of all time." Within a stone's throw of the new bridge were the sites of the two theatres in which Will Shakespeare played: and surely no more fitting spot could be found on which to raise a statue in commemoration of a poet whom it is a disgrace not to honour. It is surely not because the ter- centenary arrangements fell through in such a miserable manner that the Shakespeare memorial question is entirely to die out; and that England is still to bear the disgrace of neglecting to honour a son of hers who receives homage, not only from Englishmen born and bred, but from the deepest thinkers in the whole literary world. Z.

SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. THE Wimbledon meeting has been brought to a close by a grand review of the volunteer force by the Dukeof Cambridge. Theattendanceduringthefirst days of the meeting was not so large, nor were the proceedings so animated as in former years. This is to be attributed, however, not to any falling off in the enthusiasm of the volunteers, but only to the absorbing claims which the general election put upon many of those who have usually taken part in the proceedings. The shooting through- out has been excellent, and never have well-de- serve i compliments been better paid than upon the past occasion. The review day, as a contrast to the preceding days, was never more crowded, nor the people more enthusiastic. CONSTANCE KENT has been convicted on her own confession, and sentenced to death. The crime, it must be confessed, is most cruel and debasing. Mr. Justice Willes, although not given to the melting mood, was seriously affected when passing sentence of death. And, although he could not hold out any hope of mercy, he yet suggested some points which may perhaps weigh with those who have to advise the Crown. In the first place there was no trial. This is always unsatisfactory to the British public, but could not be avoided upon this occa- sion, as the counsel for the defence approved the plea of guilty. Again she was convicted on her own confession, after a former charge had failed for want of evidence. Then there is the distance of time, the age, the sex, all of which, say those who are adverse to capital punishments, plead against her execution being otherwise then revolt- ing to a great portion of the community. Whether the sentence may be commuted to imprisonment for life is the subject which is now mooted. If there is doubt of her sanity let her be saved, and the crime seems almost too horrible to contem- plate as committed by a person of sound mind. THE Great Eastern steam-ship has found at last a fitting destination worthy of her enormous bulk and powers. She has become the ark and recep- tacle of the mighty cord which is to unite, by the interchange of friendly messages, the two great continents of Europe and America. The largest of vessels has now sailed on her destined purpose, with, we hope, every prospect, of success the pathways of the deep have been sufficiently tracked out by the perseverance and skilful know- ledge of able and scientific men-the length of the transatlantic cable now about to be laid, its preservation from injury, and the dangers to be avoided, have been calculated and provided for from the teachings of an earlier and unsuccessful experience, and the present undertaking is com- menced under better auspices than at any pre- ceding time. It is to be hoped that the great and costly experiment may be crowned with success, and result in promoting the peace, welfare, and increasing prosperity of the two nations that speak the same language, own the same origin, and whose shores will henceforth be united by the tie of an almost instantaneous communication. WE have sad accounts from Geneva of a shock- ing tragedy that has just taken place in the Swiss Alps. A party of English tourists, headed, it is believed, by Professor Tindale, determined to at- tempt the ascent of the Matterhorn, which has hitherto been deemed inaccessible. They reached the summit of the mountain in safety, but on their descending three of the number lost their lives. The names of thrill-fated gentlemen are said to be Lord Francis Douglas, the Rev. W. Hudson, and Mr. Haddc. The young nobleman referred to as the first of the three is brother and heir-presumptive of the Duke of Queensberry. a promising youth only in his eighteenth year. AFFAIRS in America are, on the whole, assuming a milder tone; the chief conspirators in the murder of Lincoln having been executed, justice would I appear to be sa-ulsRed; there are still, j however, agitators who declaim against Presi- j dent Johnson's policy, but they are believed to be J a small minority. It! is hoped that ere long j commerce will again flourish, and that ail tntnifcies j will cease. THE French official journals express an opinion I that the United States will early recognise-the J Imperial authority in Mexico. The Emperor I Maximilian is considered to be a sagacious ruler, and is applauded for adopting a policy which is likely to establish good relations between Mexico and the United States. He has been active in promoting public works, and establishing large and lucrative enterprises. An extensive trade is said to be already springing up between New York and Vera Cruz, and American merchants are beginning to perceive that Mexico is likely to offer to them a splendid market. Thus a good feeling seems to prevail between the two countries, and the guarantees of peace have of late been greatly strengthened. IN Prussia things grow worse and worse. The inhabitants of Cologne have always expressed themselves as opposed to the Government, and a few days ago they proposed to give a banquet to the representatives of the Lower House who had successfully resisted the demands of the sovereign to vote an additional sum of money for war purposes. The Government interdicted any ex- pression of public opinion at this meeting and the police authorities attended to prevent any toast being proposed which would offend his despotic majesty. Other meetings of a similar kind are likely to be held in the Prussian provinces, and it is believed that a general feeling of discontent prevails throughout the kingdom. THE Royal Agricultural Society's Exhibition at Plymouth has been very successful this year. The presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with the French ships of war lying in the Sound, contributed to attract a host of visitors. The Prince and Princess journeyed through the principal towns on the west coast, and were everywhere received with enthusiasm. THE elections are now over, and although it has been asserted by Mr. Disraeli and others that there will be appeals against the returns of several Liberals, and that many independent members will vote in opposition to:the present Government, it is pretty certain that the Ministers will have a working majority of from forty to fifty votes on party divisions; but, as Mr. Glad- stone asserted in his speech, the Opposition will always be sufficiently strong to keep a Govern- ment honest. IT might be interesting to our readers to give a resume of the Parliaments for the last twenty years. It was on the 6th of July, 1846, that Lord John Russell became Prime Minister, and he retained that position until the 27th of February, 1852, when the Earl of Derby succeeded to the office of First Lord of the Treasury. On that day the noble Earl made his first ministerial state- ment to the House of Peers. On the 1st of July in the same year the Parliament was dissolved. The new Parliament reassembled on November 4th under the Premiership of the Earl of Derby. On December 3rd Mr. Disraeli, who wasChancellor of the Exchequer, made his financial statement. On that Budget the Conservative Ministry was beaten, and the Earl of Aberdeen became Prime Minister on the 28th of December. Lord Palmer- ston soon succeeded him, and had the reins of Government in 1857, when a majority tor sixteen against Ministers on the question ofichina in- duced the noble lord to dissolve the Parliament, and the dissolution took place on the "'25th of March. The new Parliament was ordered to meet on April the 30th, for the dispatch of business." This Parliament lasted until April, 1859, by which time Lord Derby had again become Prime Minis- ter. In the same month Mr. Disraeli brought in his Reform Bill, and it was defeated, on:the second reading, by 330 against 291. On this defeat Lord Derby dissolved the Parliament. On the 7th of June in the same year the new Parliament reassembled, but very soon after the commencement of its career, Lord Derby, who was still Prime Minister, was defeated by a majority of eighteen on a vote of want of confidence moved by the present Under Secre- tary for War, the Marquis of Hartington. Lord Palmerston then resumed the leadership, and has retained his post as First Lord of the .Treasury ever since. THE cholera has subsided in Egypt and has reached Constantinople. There has been a fear expressed that the disease is travelling westward, and alarmists state that it will reach our shores ere long. Western countries are reminded that prevention is better than cure, and both the French and English Government have given orders that in all sea-coast towns sanitary measures should be strictly enforced. It is said that cholera runs away from cleanliness as bugs run away from light. THE French Government has come to a very sensible conclusion with regard to railway acci- dents. According to a new order, large placards are to be posted for a year upon every station of the offending line, narrating circumstantially how, when, and where the accident happened, and the manner in which it might have been avoided. We bail with satisfaction anything which will bring the faults of railway officials prominently before the public. Perhaps there may be some usefulness in this French scheme, but, besides such an exposure of error, the authorities who are to blame should be also punished for any negli- gence on their part which endangers the lives of the passengers.

Sudden Death from the Excessive Heat.— Mr. Edward Kent, of Trevor-square, was walking along the Westminster-road, on Wednesday morning, when he was observed to stagger and fall. He wag taken to Westminster Hospital, where he was found to have died from congestion of tho brain caused by the heat. A Variety of Choice Dishes for the Dinner- table.-See receipts with each packet of the PEARL SEMOTJLE. Much prized for Invalids, Children, and Infants, Sold &c. J. FISON, IPSWICH, MANUFACTURER,

AMERICA. NEW YORK, July JA The War Department on Wednesday j orders dividing the United States and Federal tfff" tories into five grand military divisions, riz.—of j the Atlantic, under General Meade, with I quarters at Philadephia; of the Ohio, under Sher f. at St. Louis; of; he Gulf, under Sheridan, at New Orleans; of the Tennessee, under Thomas, at Nash- ville; and of the Pacific, under Halleck, at San cisco. The divisions are subdivided into eigWee_ military departments, each under a special mander. A department for the confiscation of the pr°P of persons who have aided the rebellion has been tablished in Richmond under the charge of i Underwood; the execution of its functions was | menced on the 12fch with the seizure, by J. R. Anderson, of the Tredegar Iron Works, serving of notices upon the tenants of :Met Crenshaw, Haxall, C. Allan, J. H. Grant, and ot e to pay no more rent to those proprietors. Great co: sternation exists among the people in consequent' and all operations and improvements in real estate$j suspended.

THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT. Advices from Alexandria to the 14th inst. THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT. Advices from Alexandria to the 14th inst. decided decrease in the mortality resulting cholera. At Alexandria on the 12fch there werei i deaths, 61 of which were from cholera on the 1 81, of which 48 were from cholera; and on the 1* 62 died, 21 being from cholera. At Cairo 310 died? the 12th, of which 226 were from cholera; on the 13J?' 302 deaths, 204 being from cholera; and on the 1* 255,156 of which were from cholera. Advices from Corfu announce that the island} perfectly healthy, and that there are no sick eve»r* j the Lazzaretto. A quarantine of two dayB will ™ imposed upon all arrivals from Epirua and Const$" tinople. The cholera is spreading at Constantinople. *7. total number of cases that have proved fatal is 32 J* the Naval Hospital and 11 in the city. Strict sanit*v measures have been adopted.

PRUSSIA. A collision took place at Buckau on the night of1^ 16th inst. between a passenger train from and a goods train coming from Dortmund. The lo°^ motive, tender, and six passenger carriages were si* tered to pieces. Thirteen persons were killed many wounded.

THE BANQUET TO THE PRUSSIAN LIBERA^' A banquet, given on Saturday evening at Den^{ near Cologne, in honour of the Prussian deputies, was interrupted by the Mayor of Deute 11 p.m. A detachment of cuirassiers was statiollek on Sunday before the hotel in which the banquet too place, and the steamer which conveyed the was occupied by the troops. The guests of the of quot left by rail for Oberlahnstein, in the Duchy Nassau. Public order was not disturbed.. 011 An assembly of working men was held at Berlin ed Sunday, at which a committee was elected compos d of followers of the school of Schulze-Delitsch Lasalle. This committee was deputed to orgalliso,, monster meeting, to take place for the purpose of a serting the right of public meeting.

Disgracef ul Pugilistic Encounter.—On nesday morning two Covent-garden porters, naxo^* Baker and Dingwall, had a regular pugilistic in the dark arches of the Adelphi. Both combataD were so injured that they had to be taken to ChariD| cross Hospital, Baker with a broken leg and DiBg"*v8 with dreadful cuts and'injuries about the head. A Village nearly Destroyed by Fire.+jL village of Montrond, Savoy, has been almost t°^g destroyed by fire, caused by the imprudence of alio) a child to get at some lucifer matches. The being thatched, the flames spread withextremerapidli and in a short time thirty-seven houses and twetl ed four barns were entirely consumed. A woman 110,00 Vial lost her life in an attempt to save some of her P*g perty. Two persons only were insured, so that the is very considerable. A Gravediggers' Strike.—-The Courrie'f Saone et Loire says:—"Sepulchral news reaches .g from Autun; the gravediggers have struck! people of Autun must not, therefore, die, unless tb nO wish their bodies to remain unburied. We other way of opposing the pretensions of men live by other people's deaths. Such a result as was scarcely supposed would be produced by the J on coalitions." 0' A Gentleman Drowned while The watering-place of Aberdour was the scene 0 g, melancholy accident on Saturday afternoon. A English gentleman, seemingly about years of age, who was on a pleasure tour, had o from Edinburgh in the forenoon, and, after raJO^jg. about the vicinity, had met two other English £ ??0ijt men, strangers, like himself, to the locality, t tjie five o'clock in the afternoon the three went to in company, and agreed to swim off to a boat 0{ lay moored a short distance from the shore. the party reached the boat in safety, but the gentleman referred to above sank in the water j wg quite close to it. When his body was recovered, 3a0 was found to be extinct. His pocket-book gø.e clue to his name or address. '1'J!Ð A Madman in a Railway Carriage.- e of Journal de Rouen states that the passengers *nJ? ej} & the carriages of a train which left Lisieux for few evenings since, made the unpleasant dis°°v0<jf almost immediately after their departure, that ol> p their fellow-travellers was a madman, and be violent. They managed, however, to keep ,j.0y from injuring either himself or others until jp reached Mezidon, when the poor man was charge to the genaarmery, and placed in a ng, where he passed the night quietly. The next the mayor of Mezidon made the necessary arJLfor0 ments for having him conveyed to an asylum- ua 9 the carriage arrived, however, the lunatic water decanter which he found in his room, a^d fl?er one of the fragments into his neck so far as the carotid artery and cause his almost instant a.a0rfc, ine deceased was identified as a man named S18' face# ^ohjing a subordinate employment in the navy at Cherbourg. Peers Coming of Age.—The following men come of age during the course of the P. eJ.jy, year:—The Marquises of Ormonde and Qa003Jv0. Viscount Downe, and Lord Willoughby de T3to»Lifloti, 1866 the Duke of Hamilton and the Earls Harrington, and Jersev will come of age; in Earl of Caledon; in 1868, the Duke of Norf^'jg 0f Marquises of Bute and Huntly, and the Ellesmere and Ferrars; in 1869, Lords an for t Beaumont; in 1870, the Marquis of Ely 01 Earls of Ranfurly and Elgin; in 1871. the< &^Jg Pembroke and Lord Macdonald; in 1872, ore; of Guildford and Waldegrave, and Lord in 1873, the Earl of Charleville and Lord and in 1878, Lord Rodney.. Woou Far Too Good tor England.-Air. A, a to writes to the Times as follows Let me recon" g our refreshment rooms a plan adopted with ijjje Vesoul. The following is the advertisement: y0gOtil- express and mail trains do not stop long t0 dint MM. the travellers who wish to breakfast o jjoi are advertised that they will find at the c0m- meals m baskets for 2f. 50c. These meals^ br0ad, posed of three dishes, half a bottle of iButes and dessert. MM. the travellers have thtfip. SY' I take their meals in their wagons." j haske^ t- MM. the travellers receive a well-A^ ^pty 9 one station for half-a-crown, and return the next. Hear it Swindon, Petersborougn> quod exit in Scald. ,A .tm pti

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