The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford

WORCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. WORCESTER, Monday 143rd meeting of the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, for the benefit of the widows and orphans of clergymen of the three dioceses, may be said to have opened at noon to-day with the rehearsal of sacred music at the ca- thedral, since these rehearsals have been opened to the public by the offer of half-guinea tickets. The principals have all arrived. It has already been found necessary "to provide additional accommodation for visitors so extraordinary has been the demand for tickets.' All the principal (15s.) reserved seats in the nave of the cathedral for the "Messiah" day were disposed of three weeks ago; and the additional (10s.) seats 'on the choir are rapidly 'filling up. On the other mornings the places show -nearly the same result. The programme for the festival may be briefly sketched. To-day has been devoted to rehearsals. Three or four hours have been well employed this morning in this way at the cathedral, and-with the sacred mifsic, and especial attention has been given to Costa's work, which is new to many of the chorus. This evening there will be two or three hours' work with the rehearsal of the secular music at the rCollege-hall. The actual festival may be said to open as many often conclude, viz., with a feast. To-morrow morning the Mayor of Worcester (Mr. T. Southall) gives a public breakfast at the'Guildhall to the Bishop, 'Dean and Chapter, stewards-of the festival, and principal inhabi- tants of Worcester and the county, ladies being of course included in the invitations issued. His worship with the corporation and other guests will proceed thence to the cathedral, where at noon the fu-st perform- ance of sacred music-will commence. The first morning's selection consists -of the Te Deum," composed by Handel after the victory of Dettingen, and was-uscd for many years at the morning service with which these festivals formerly opened. The" TeDeum is followed by a selection from Costa's Naaman," Haydn's oratorio, -the Creation," and Mendelssohn's anthem, Hear my prayer." It should '.be mentioned that there is daily morning service at the cathedral at an early hour the three choirs (strictly speaking) combining in the musical •portion of the service. At the first service, on Tuesday -morning, the annual serrnon in aid of the chafity will "be preached by the Hon. and Rev. J. W. ILeigh. Collections for the .charity are made after each of -these services, and -at the doors of the cathedral -after the oratorios. Wednesday morning will be devoted -entirely to Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah," Mr. Santley -taking the part of the Prophet; Mr. Sims Reeves and Mr. Cummings dividing (the tenor soli, and Madame •Sainton Dolby and Madame Patey-Whytock sharing -the contralto parts. Mddle. Titiens sings the air, Hear ye, Israel," opening the second part of the oratorio. The -cathedral plan is almost filled up for this morning. The programme for Thursday morning is a lengthy one, comprising Spohr's oveitme to, 'TheLastTudgmeiit;" Beethoven's Service in C; a solection from Handel's "Joshua: and Mendelssohn's Hymn of Praise. On Friday-morning the never-tiring master-piece of Handel, his oratorio of the Messiah" will be given entire, all the principals taking part in it. 'The evening concerts present nothing novel in either of the three, although no doubt -experience has shown -that an audience capable of appreciating the solemn effect produced by the great works of Handel, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Haydn, can relish the lighter and fragmentary schemes ,of secular music usually provided on these occasions. r0f the three evening concerts the first (Tuesday's) is perhaps the best. The concert on Thurs- day brings to a close the musical part of the festival, but there is a ball at the Guildhall on Friday night, under the management of the lay stewards. As already etated, the oratorios are given in the nave-of the cathe- dral, which has been specially fitted up forrthe purpose with seats and an orchestra. The latter is erected at the foot of the west window and faces the ebciir. The recent renvoval of -the organ and choir screen behind the choir and -nave throws open the centre vista from one end of the cathedral to the other, and although not originally contemplated, the choir will be -used as well as the nave for seating the audience. This will give much extra space, all of which and more will be required, judging from present appearances. 'The secular concerts axe given at 4he College Hall, the ancient refectory of the monks of t. Mary's, and now used as the College school; there Is a permanent gallery and orchestra. The room, though 'bare, is very lofty, and admirably adapted for music. The Mayor's breakfast and ,1)00 ball will be held in the Gsiildhall Assembly Room, a handsome and spacious apartment in the centre ,of :the .eity, erected on dit by Sir Christopher Wren. The festival is under the .special patronage of her Majesty the Queen, and the Lord Bishop of Worcester is the president. The .principal vocalists are Mdlle. Titiens, Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mme. Patey-Whytock, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Sandev, and Mr. Lew's Thomas. Sainton and Blagrove lead the band. Dr. Wesley (organist of Gloucester .Cathedral) presides at the organ, Mr. Town- send Smith (organist of Hereford), at the pianoforte, and Mr. Bene, as organist of Worcester Cathedral, .conducts the festival morning and evening. The Great Western, the Midland, and the London end North Western Railway Companies ran special trains and makerspecial arrangement as to return tickets for the festival week. The only anxiety ithat now troubles the good folks of Worcester is the weather, and, as there is no Admiral Fitzroy now whose forecasts Inight be consulted, this becomes a question of more tham Mual importance, as the many upturned ,eyes to- day st..

ACCIDENT TO A MAIL TRAIN.—To the Est of acci- dents which have of late occurred on the North-Eastera Railway, the record of one which happened on Saturday night has to be added. In this instance a mail train bad an extremely narrow escape. The cattgo was simple, yet one which ought not, by any possibility, to have been capable of happening. The train which grief was the eight o'clock mail from Hull on « evening. It consisted of an engine, a tender, rinses rnrrTi8-11'two composite carriages (first and second Tn advance the van occupied by the mail guard. SeaTlen "th goods train for Normanton, of thai- station This ^?-on a a little distance beyond the «tation and at s:h mg leaves the mainline just beyond rejoin* th, main line, S'lS'T" T S direction. The goods ti-aiu hadL^^f881? most distant from the station andbac&f w Tb« good, tmm was far, the last truck being pushed so near to the™? w at the points nearest the Selby station that thf. hnffloi. projected over the line. When the mail the engine came in contact with the buffer of the truck' The side of the engine and tender were grazed or scraped* the guard's van more extensively damaged, some of the handles and steps of the two carriages torn off. The 8.50 p.m. express, which is timed to pass Selby shortly after the mail, was stopped, and in no way endangered. The passengers of the mail train suffered nothing beyond a shaking of the nerves, and were forwarded with little delay by the express. THE JEWS IN IRELAND.-The census of 1861 re- vealed the remarkable fact that in the whole south-west of Ireland there were but two Jews. One of these an- cient people abode in Munster, and the other in Con- naught, so that they sufficed between them for a popu- lation of nearly three millions. Jews can find no occu- pation. in a ]al!d of poverty, without manufactures, without trade, without any of those commercial demands which provide them with employment. In the metro- politan districts of Leinster 200 Jews were found, and a Jewish colony had settled about Belfast. These are the rising districts of ILelaiid.-Times. WELSH GOLD.-The quantity of gold raised in the whole of Wales during theyear 1861 reached 2,886 oz ■ ^1862, 5,299 oz.; in 1863, 552 oz.; in 1864, 2,333 oz.' • ™. *865, 1,664 oz. The large decrease here ^^pal% atCB is on the wane in the

ILL-TREATING A VALUABLE COURSING HOUND. At the petty sessions held at the Court House, Enfield, on Saturday, before Messrs. Myers, Harrison, and Ford, three young men, brothers, named Joseph, William, and Charles Dethier, residing at Nassau-house, Enfield-highway, appeared to answer the charge of having grossly ill-treated and damaged a certain dog. The court was crowded by farmers and sporting gentle- men fro-m the surrounding neighbourhood, who seemed to take great interest in the proceedings. Mr. Love, from the office of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, prosecuted, and from his state- ment it appeared that the ,three defendants were persons of property and very-respectably connected, and came into that neighbourhood very recently to reside. The owner of the dog was one Mr. ChailesClsike, an exteii- sive farmer and market gardener, an old mhabitantof the neighbourhood, -and the dog in question was a very celebrated coursing" hound, and as such was highly valued. It appeared that some part of the grounds belonging to the residence of the defendants joined Mr. Clarke's premises, -being separated only by a hedge. It was alleged by the defendants that this dog was in the habit of getting«an to their premises and damaging their garden, and they resolved to trap him. They accor- dingly procured an iron trap of great strength, and having teeth in the,ordinary way, and set it at the spot where it was conjectured the dog would come, fastening it to the ground with an iron stake. On tire night of the 9th of August, :at about eleven o'clock, it would ap- 1 pear that the unfortunate dog got into the trap, and the three defendants, whose attention After a time was attracted by its 'cries, went out, ooe being armed with a poker, another with a bayonet, d the third with a light. The dog, in its struggles to release itself, -drew the -stake <out of the ground, and started off with the trap attached to its leg. The three defen- dants gave chase to it, and beat it with the poker, and stabbed it with the bayonet in various parts of its body the dog, more .dead than alive, managed to ,effect its escape, nd it was subsequently found by its owner lying upon the ground in great agony, with the trap attached to its leg, its body and the trap being covered with blood. It was found that the boites,of one of its feet were broken. 'On one -shoulder there was a wound into which the ;top of one's finger might be inserted, and there were several other wounds 'of a similar character, but smaller, all bleeding copiously, and the other shoulder was swollen up to twice the 1Ilaturalsize. The dog remained in a ,state of great suffering for many days. It is permanently lamed, ;and was now valueless as a-sporting dog, or indeed for :any purpose. Witnesses were then called whose evidence fully bore out the above facts. The defence set up was that the dog was a source of annoyance to the defendants, and had done a great deal of damage. They there- fore decided to trap it, :and then kill it, and they would have killed dt had it not got away from them, but after iitgot away they did not like to follow it. Mr. Love ibegged :to call the attention of the Bench te the clause of the act, which provided that offenders found guilty of doing any damage to an animal by ill- -of treating it, should upon conviction, pay to the owner of the animalany -sum not exceeding £10, over &nd above the penalty they were liable to for illtreating it. The owner estimated the-damage at E 10, and witnesses were called as to the character of the dog. Mr. Arthur Cherry, the Government veterinary stngeon, proved that it was permanently disabled. The magistrates said a more flagrant <case had never come ibefore them, and there was really -no defence they could but ex- press their surprise that young men in the position of the defendants could be guilty of such barbarity. It would be wel for them to know that they might be sent to prison for three ,calendar months to hard labour, without the option of a fine, for an offence of this kind. The decision <of the 13enchwas that each of them pay the full peiialtyof £5 and the costs for the-cruelty, and in addition X5 as compensation to the owner of the dog, or stand conimitted to the House of Correction with hard labour for two calendar months. The fines and costs, amounting to zC22 2s., were paid. .9

J THE CAREER OF AN IRISH; M. For some days past, says a letter from Dublin in the .Morning Post, numerous rumours have been afloat in the city touching the (disappearance from legal circles of :a member of the Inner Bar, who was understood to be in the enjoyment of tI. competent if not very extensive income, and who was one of the counsel for the Fenian prisoners at the late special commission. This gentle- man at an early period of his life competed for a clerk- ship in one of the metropolitan police offices, the emolu- ments of which were only £ 70; but, being unsuccessful, his friends advanced the funds necessary to enter him as a law student, and he pursued his studies, and was ad- mitted to the Bar in Easter Term, 1849. Soon after his admission he was taken in hand by some attorneys, who discovered that, although deficient in the higher branches of legal knowledge, he was .a good .technical lawyer- "bristling with points," as the phrase goes—and by them he-was introduced to an extensive practice in the. minor courts, and employed as junior counsel in actions pending in the superior courts. Within five years from his "call" his fee-book showed he had received within a twelvemonth over £ 900 in single guinea fees. Un- fortunately, the anxiety to form a connexion amongst his professional brethren, to conciliate the goodwill of the attorneys, and to get introduced into" flociety," in- duced him to indulge in expensive entertainments and to keep an establishment far in excess of his means. In- volved in debt, -he hoped to retrieve his fortune by an application for a silk gown, and this, backed by con- siderable interest, was granted to him by LordChancelIor Brady in February, 1863, or a few months short of his being fourteen years at the bar. His expectations were not gratified. He had to contend with some of the most polished scholars and subtlest lawyers whom the Irish bar in later years has produced, and in face of the keen wit and sparkling eloquence and mastery of lamof some of his juniors his practice fell away until his incotns from being that of some £ 2.000 a-year as a jmuor, became reduced to from £ 1,000 to £ 1,200 as Queen's counsel. Meanwhile his .expenditure went on increasing, -and his liabilities in a corresponding ratio. The crisis ,came at length. He disappeared the other day, leaving (debts behind to the fame of nearly £ 30,000. The, trust -reposed in him was very great. In one instance a Jewish gentleman suffers to the amount of £ 7,000. In another, a confiding solictor had advanced no less a -Bum than £ 5,000. A second .solicitor is a creditor for £ 2,000, another for il,WO, and so on; whilst money- lenders and shopkeepers find that the learned gentleman's account must be balanced at the wrong side. Since his departure the trustee of his marriage settlement entered into possession of the mansion which he occupied in a fashionable square, and called an auction of its con- tents hot since then the Sheriffs' officers have secured a footing within the house, and refused to allow the auc- tion" to proceed. The result of this proceeding is, that the case is likely to come before one of the law courts presently, when, of course, all the circumstances, so far as they are legally cognisable, will be revealed. The learned gentleman, it is said, intends to make New York his home, and the American bar the scene of his future professional labours.

FATAL ACCIDENTS AT THE LONDON-BRIDGE STEPS.— On Saturday Mr. Payne held an inquest relative to the death of a man unknown, who was found drowned at the foot of the steps at London-bridge, near Fish- mongers' Hall, lying on his face in the mud. He had apparently been dead some five or six hours. He must have o-ot into the water from the steps, for if he had become immersed elsewhere the tide would have earned him through the arches of the bridge. The deceased was apparently poverty-stricken, and nothing could be learned about his identity. John Anderson, who stated that he had charge of St. Magnus's dead-house, said that he had no doubt the deceased mistook the steps for those leading into Thames-street, and ran down them right into the river. SeverallivcSt had been lost in that way. Within the last 18 months three soldiers, suoposing that they were going down into Thames- street the way to the Tower, had been drowned. Last week 'a man asked some one the way to Thames-street, Ind being told "down the steps ran down into the Thames and he had to swim back to save his life. If aXt chain or bar were erected across the steps it a light cnaiH protection to persons who did would be at nigh § Coroner said that when an not know the lGcality ^e ia was drowned inquest was he d upon the last sow at those steps the Ju^r t the Common Council they added a recommendation toai 0f such should devise means to preventtbe thitthe deceased accidents. The Jury returned a vei die m.egs their was Found Drowned, and they desired P regret that the suggestion of a former juiy had not been acted upon. CRETE.-Writing from Canéa on the 26th of August, a correspondent says We may congratulate each other when a short time has gone by (I hope) on the completion of Greece, and, I wish I could say, on tne freedom of our heroic Crete, for whose people in geneift I have taken a liking beyond that I conceive for the Continental Greeks. Our revolution hangs fire. The Turks dare not move first, and the Greeks are content to rest on the defensive and so the two armies are in sight, of nearly equal numbers (about 20,000 men each), and each waiting for the first shot. The few Turks in the country, unable to hold their own for a moment if an outbreak should take place crowd into the walled cities and then the Greeks, in their turn overawed and outnumbered, either wait in dread the first blood, or escape into the mountains and ships. Hundreds of families have abandoned everything they could not carry With them."—Pall Mall Gazette.

L- SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO AN EXCUR- SION TRAIN. On Thursday night, the 6th inst., an accident by which persons lost their lives, and many others were seriously injured, occurred on the line of railway^ be- tween Carnarvon and Port Madoc. On the previous Tuesday, the Association of Calvinistic Methodists of North Wales opened its quarterly meeting at Car- narvon, and large numbers of persons from all parts of the district flocked into the town to take part in the proceedings, special trains being arranged for their con- venience. Thursday was the last day of the gathering, and there was a still greater influx of visitors attracted by the novelty of a great camp meeting which was to be held in the fields on that day. Early in the morning a heavy train left Port Madoc for Carnarvon crowded with excursionists proceeding to the camp meeting. The train reached Carnarvon in safety, and at seven o'clock in the evening, the hour at which it was advertised to return, the little tempoflaiy station just outside the town was filled and surrounded by a dense crowd of men, women, and children, anxious to secure seats for the return journey. A few I minutes after seven the train started with as many pas- 4 sengers as could obtain room, the number being variously estimated at between 700 nd 1,000. Every precaution compatible with the resources of a new line seems to have been adopted to prevent accidents, the train proceeding at a slow pace, and being driven by Mr. John Savin, brother to the well-know contractor of that name, by whom the line has been constructed. All went well till the train arrived at the LJandwyfach station, where it came to a temporary stoppage for the purpose of taking in water. This accomplished, the train proceeded at a slow pace in view of the points, which were about a hundred yards distant. Immediately on passing these points the engine and tender by some means or other got off the line, and were upset. The tender fell right across the path of the advancing train, and the leading carriages, urged on by the impetus of ithe heavy load behind, heaved up, and toppled over the tender and 'each other,, and in a moment the air was filled with the shrieks of i the terrified passengers. j After the first few moments of confusion, those who found themselves uninjured set to work to relieve their less fortunate companions who were jammed up in the overturned carriages.. In the icowse, of Ttalf an honr five dead persons—three women and two men—were picked out of the smashed =rriages, the shocking ap- pearance of the bodies showing that death, if painful, must have -been instantaneous. The proportion of those .,so much injured as to require assistance in removal was singularly small, only five being found in need of imme- diate medical attendance, .amd of these, while one, the stoker, is but slightly hurt, another is in,so -precarious a state that doubts are entertained as to Tier iultimate re- covery. The station in sight of which the accident oc- curred is not much more than a hut and a siding, but such conveniences as its proximity could afford for meeting the sudden calamity were eagerly made avail- able. The wounded, were carried into the station till means could he provided for passing them on to their various destinations, and the dead were laid in the shed adjoining the-fitation to await the coroner's inquest. The bodies of those killed were all identified <«m the spot, and the following are their names :—Mary Jones, Tygwyn; Janet Phillips and Catherine Parry, Penrhyn- (dewdraeth Humphry Griffith, Carnaxvon.; 2and Mr. Williams, builder, Festiniog. Many persons were removed by their own friends, but the followingare the names of those attended to in the station :-Griffith Griffith, slightly hurt; Elizabeth Evans, dangerously Richard Edwards, seriously; ifsad Mrs. Hughes, who has sustained a fractured jaiw. From a personal examination of the scene of the disaster, the cause of the accident would appear to be that Ae point, leading off to a-eiding, over which the engine passed, was out of order, and that while the engine and tender were by it led off the main line, the train, keeping on the straight, wrenched them over on to their sides, and fell over the obstacles thus created in the manner (described above.

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER IN WEST- MINSTER. On 'Saturday last Mr. Langham held a lengthened enquiry at Westminster Hospital, as to the death of a woman named Bridget Keefe. Evan Keefe, the hus- band of the deceased, -said that on the Sunday wenitig witness had been out with bis wife when Whiting came into the court without his shirt, glnd wanted 'to fight him or sanybody belonging to him. The deceased ran to him for protection, .and there was a fight. Witness fell but lost all reason, and did not know who fell with him. 'Neither witnessaior Whiting was sober. James Keefe, an intelligent boy, ten yearsof age, said that on Sunday evening week Whiting came into the roomwith only his trousers and boots on, andwa-iited to fight witness's father. His mother went up to prevent it, and Whitmg knocked her down. She Ml Tjack, "hitting her head on the floor, and ins quarter of an hour she became insensible, im -which state she remained till taken to the hospital. Ellen, wife of Isaac Whithjg, said: Mr. and Mrs. Keefe came home in drink, and one took the tongs and the other the poker, and drummed away at the wall. Witness told them to be q-met, andtbenTter (witness's) husband came into the room and said he would fight the best man there. Mr. Keefe -and Mrs, Keefe and witness's husband had a scramble together, and all were dfcwn onthefloortogether. Mr. W. Moore, house surgeon, stated that a post-mortem examination showed exten- sive disease of the brain, and death had resulted from rupture of the capillary vessels, which might be due either to the diseased state of the brain, acted upon by excitement, or from a fall. There being 11G external marks of violence, mch a fall as deceased was described to have had would probably not have produced death in a healthy person. Verdict, "Died from apoplexy, but whether that was accelerated by the excitement conse- quent on excessive drinking, or from a fall caused. by a blow there was not ,sufficient evidence to fihow."

DISASTROUS FLOODS IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES. More rain fell on Saturday morning, and the Trent, the Soar, the Derwent, the Leen, and the Sinite have all overflowed their banks, and the meadows adjoining are all submerged in water. The flood rose very rapidly the previous night, and the adjacent fields were covered with water. In all parts of the low lands considerable damage has been sustained. In some parts of Leices- tershire, in the district round Market Harborough, the cut corn is standing in water, and a great deal irretriev- ably spoilt. There are also hundreds of acres in Notts and Derbyshire where the damage to the outstanding corn will be very considerable. Barley is sprouting in all districts, and the samples yet to be gathered will be of very inferior quality. The sheaves are black and otherwise discoloured, and cannot, under the most favourable circumstances, be carted in less than a week. A good deal of wheit has been cut green, and although the harvest in many parts of the midland counties commenced under promising prospects, there is now no doubt that the conclusion will be more disastrous than it has been for a number of years past. In the neighbourhood of Nottingham the meadows on each side the line of railway from that place to Derby are in many places covered with water, injuring the crops now lying in the fields. The flood has also made its appearance on some of the turnpike roads. On the Derby turnpike, near Wollaton-park Lodge, the land is submerged. The overflowing of the Soar in Leicester- shire has also caused considerable injury to the grain crops. There is a great flood in the Erewash Valley, and consequences of a very disastrous nature are ex- pected. In the neighbourhood of Burton Joyce, Gun- thorpe, and Hoveringhapi, in the vale of the Trent, the harvest has been backwardcd by the untoward weather, and now the grain is in many places in the water. The potatoes are beginning to suffer from the moisture, and the disease has made its appearance in some districts. The water slowly receded on Sunday night.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—The museum, which has undergone renovation, was reopened to the public on Monday morning. THE MONARCH OF THE SEAS.—The following waif relating to this unfortunate vessel was picked up in a bottle, while being washed ashore at Eastbourne. The manuscript, it is right to state, was written in a trembling hand, but was perfectly legible:—" Ten days out, lat. 49.30 N. long. 48.11. Heavy gales. Ship sprung leak. Passengers ruhning about decks. Water pouring in. Crew at pumps. Water gaining fast. Six feet in hold. Captain say ten minutes to live. Two boats washed over. Long boat got out. Three crew and one passenger in when it broke away. No provi- sions. Good bye. Hope this may reach England. If found, let it be known. J. JONES, from Plymouth." The retiring allowance fixed by the Government for the late Lord Chief Justice Lefroy is X3,500 per annum. -Observer. AMERICAN YIELD OF PETROLEUM.—At the recent meeting of the British Association Professor Hitchcock contributed a paper on the geological distribution of netroleum in North America. Fropi 24,000,000 gallons in 1861 when the oil was not worth so much as the harrels it was stored in, the yield had risen to 91,000,000 crallons in 1865, when the supply was not equal to the *Lmand This was exclusive of the produce of Canada Wp<t Ths value of 95,000,000 gallons was about £ ± 000 000. The wells, he thought, lay in geological 'ities' In some cases the supply was continuous, m others intermittent, and in some cases it was necessary „ the oil. In one instance 3,000 barrels a-day ca^e Up through a cavity 2 £ inches in diameter. As many as 25 wells were at work on one acre.

THE DISCOVERY OF FENIAN STORES AND COMBUSTIBLES IN LIVERPOOL. For some time past the attention of the Liverpool police has been directed to a suspicious kind of house, No. 84, Salisbury-street, and a watch having been placed upon it, information was obtained by degrees that it had been used as a place of assembly for a number of Fenian agitators, the leader of whom was the head-centre aia-ested about a month ago in Birkenhead. It was ascertained that immediately after this man's arrest the remainder of the conspirators got away to America. A communication received within the last few days from Dublin induced the police authorities in Liverpool to search the house. They did so, and, as it is stated, they discovered in the cellar or some other secret part of the premises, a quantity of liquid in bottles, a considerable amount of revolver cartridge, and three muskets. One j of the bottles of liquid was opened and a portion of it being accidentally spilled upon the floor ignited. The officers poured a small quantity down a sewer, and this also ignited. The remaining bottles, the cartridge, and the muskets were removed to the police station in Duke- street. An officer was then sent with one of the bottles in search of an analytical chemist, and on the way he spilled a small quantity of the liquid upon his clothes. The clothes ignited immediately, and the officer was very seriously injured about the arms and breast. Another account states that the house in Salisbury- street was kept by a Mrs. Bla.ckmore, a native of Dublin, and a widow. Two Irish officers, assisted by Detec- tives Graham and Scaife, visited the house on Tuesday, and found in the top room three tubs, containing be- tween 50 and 60 bottles. Each of the bottles contained from a pint to three gills of explosive liquid. The cartridges and revolvers were also found in this mom. When questioned Mrs. Blackmore said that about Christmas three men, Farrell, Mulleada, and Cox, came to lodge at her house. The first two were a joiner and carpenter, and Cox a bricklayer. They were, she said, all members of the Volunteer Irish Brigade." In about a month after Farrell introduced a man named Brooks, who remained at the house for a day or two, and was reported as a deafer in hardware from Sheffield. During his stay a porter brought some hampers at different times, con- taining what was said to be ihardware. These were car- ried up to the top room, locked up, and the key taken by Brooks. Farrell, the landlady states, left for America last Tuesday. Brooks has disappeared, but -ghe does not know where to. CÐxtenlisted some time-ago. Be- fore Brooks disappeared be frequently visited the house, and always went to inspect the goods deposftied in the top room. Mulleada is sapposed to be still somewhere in the town. The arrest of Baines, the head-centre recently arrested in Birkenhead, and who was frequently seen at or near the house in Salisbury-street, appears to have disturbed the conspirators. Since June, an American gentleman named Leonard has been living in the use, but he left "before the police ifeegan their search on Thursday, and has not been seen-since. He is an-elderly stout man, with large bushy whiskers.. In the room occupied by Leonard and Mulleada Mrs. Blackmore found a bladk leather belt, of military make, marked with the letters U. S." in brass. This has been handed to the police.

THE INSURRECTION IN CAFDIA. The Levant Herald <of *the 29th nit. -says that the -commotion in Crete shews no sign of abatement. Up to4ihe date of the latestnews from the isle-iid mo actual collision had taken place between the insurgents and the :troops, both the governor and the military <command.er, Ferik Osman Pacha, pleading illness as their reason for inaction. The former bad, it was gawl, twice tendered his Yesignation, but the Porte has declined-to accept it. -Osmaii Pacha was at Betymo, laid up with-t-he gout, and bir, doctors had recommended a change of Climate. The alarm of the Mussulman population, who are largely in the minority in the island, is described as being great, :and most of them have staken refuge in the ithree gan-i- isoned towns of Candia, Canea, and Retymo,the military authorities of whicli.stfinot,did their best to prevent their flocking in. Rere in the capital {»dds the Levant lllerald) the Government appear bent on trying a further effort of conc&tioiv and if that Ml, in stamping the movement out by a free use of military force. Ivirtly Mustapha Pacha, who governed the island during itsoccupation by Mchemet Ali, and reaped his reward in .the accumu- lation <of a princely fortune, is, it is said at the Porte, to be named Imperial Commissioner to investigate on the spat the alleged grieranoes of the insurgents. As a token ;ef palace favour in prospect of this .service, he received on Sunday theOsmranie in brilliants. Simul- taneously; with this appointment, Fcrik Yavha Pacha has been named to the icoromand of the troops in the island, with Ali and Mehcmcd Pachas as his brigadiers. These officers left on Monday -by a special steamer to take up their commands. In the meantime, the main body of the- insurgents is still concentrated in the dis- trict of Apocorona, receiving daily ;accessiqnst but Jceep- ipg strictly .on the defensive."

The proportion of Germans wlio are seized with Cholera in the American cities is greater than that of persons descended from any other race. The American cities now suffering from cholera are New York, Phila- delphia, Rielimbivd, ''L Chicinnatil Chicac,,o, St. Louis, and New Orleans. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S HALLUCINATBSN.—The Pre- sident's reply to the address of the Pennsylvania Con- vention was in great part a repetition of statements of his opinions and feelings with which the public is already familiar. But he went further than he has yet gone in denunciation of Cojagress, using one phrase which has a somewhat ominous sound. He spoke-of Congress as a body hanging upon the verge of the government, as it war,; a body tealIed, and which assumes to be. the Congress of the United States, but is, hi fact, a Congress of.oiily -paitof the States." It would be easy to set this down -as Ala indication that Mr. Johnson is preparing his own mila- and that of his followers for the creation of a Congress of his own in December, and for an attempt at the forcible repudiartion of the body now in .existence. We prefer, however, to believe that he is yet a great distance from any such step, and we call attention to the phrase simply as an illustration of the lengths of absurdity to which his own mental obtuseness and the flattery of his admirers are carrying him. It must be remembered that the Congress now sitting was elected by the loyal States for the purpose of governing the United States in peace or war, weal or woe, for the space of two years. Mr. Johnson, on the other hand, was elected Vice-President as a compliment to himself and his State, and nobody who voted for him had the smallest anticipation that he would ever be called upon to exercise any greater share .either in reconstruction or in the general administration of our affairs than falls to the lot of the Speaker of the Senate. In other words, he was to occupy towards the executive the same re- lation as Hannibal Hamlin occupied towards it. He did not receive a single Southern vote, and was detested through every Southern State, with a cordiality un- known in the case of any Northern radical. He holds the power he now exercises by an accident, and when he speaks of himself as a department of the Govern- ment," and calls Congress i; a body hanging on the verge of the Government." he does no harm, we admit; but he-reveals a state of mind, as we have often re- marked before, which proves his presence in the White House, at such a juncture as the present one, to be most cglamitous.-Ncw York Nation. THE TRUTH FOR PIUS IX.—A letter from Rome, in the Salut Public of Lyons, says:—"The Holy Father and all the cardinals have received by post a small pamphlet, printed at Naples, with the title, The Truth for Pius IX." The author is M. Bertocchini, of Rome, late Brother of the Christian Schools, who has been to Naples with his family; he presents for the Roman question four combinations: namely, an armed invasion, an interior revolution, a slow ngony, and an accord with the King of Italy. According to him, the armed in- vasion will not take place, for Italy has undertaken, by the Convention of the 15th September, to respect the frontiers of the Roman State; an interior revolution is very possible and facile, and would render inevitable the fall of the temporal power of the Holy See, if the Pope, doing violence to his evangelical character, should attempt to stifle it by a prompt and sanguinary repression: a slow agony would be too humiliating for the Pontifical government. That is why M. Bcrtocchini concludes that there is nothing else to be done but to come to terms with the King of Italy, and show himself once more the Pope of 1848. This pamphlet is making much noise in the circles of the Pontifical party; the author states he has written it from devotcdness to the Papacy, and adds that the Roman clergy, and particu- larly the good ecclesiastics who have the direction of the congregation at the church of Peace, can give tes- timony as to his moral and religious conduct." THK RESIDENCE FOR THE POPE.-According to the Nord England is most anxious that the Pope should take up his residence in the Island of Malta. It says The idea of the flight of the Holy Father to Malta seems to have so many adherents amongst Roman Catholics and even in the Papal court as to make the cabinet of the Tuileries take the possibility of such a result into serious consideration, with the view of pre- venting the realisation of a combination which would completely deprive France of the influence which she has of late years exercised in the government of catholi- city and for which she has made so many sacrifices. The desire to trick France in this matter must be very great as otherwise English diplomacy, which is so in- different on all questions of European politics, would not display so much activity and would not go so far as to offer the Pope the entire possession of Malta, except the fortifications and forts."

NON-PAYING RAILWAYS. It is contended that a railway which pays something above its annual outgoings, but not enough to cover the whole interest of its debt, and leaves nothing for the a shareholders, is insolvent. Assuming that the Great Eastern and the Chatham and Dover are in this position, we should still dispute that such companies were in- solvent. The non-payment of dividend to shareholders is by no means a test of solvency. It may undoubtedly show that the concern is not a very profitable one, but the circumstance is certainly not to be regarded as an act of bankruptcy. Let us take the case of the Chatham and Dover. Its income for the half-year, after payment of all working expenses, was £70,000; and in the case of the Great Eastern the net profits were £ 390,000. That this money was not applied to the payment of interest on debentures and preference stocks was due solely to exceptional causes. Although not distributed to shareholders, it was applied, however, in in part payment of their liabilities, and proprietors of the company are thus benefited to the extent of the re- duction of the claims upon them, at the expense of their dividends; they have in effect given the profits out of their business for the half-year to reduction of debt. The profits arising from working the Great Eastern were at the rate of something like 3 per cent., and on the Chatham and Dover they represented nearly 1 per cent, on the whole capital expended. This, of course, will be considered a very poor and unsatisfactory result, but it is not insolvency. The ordinary share capital of the Chatham and Dover is jC3,000,000 but it must be re- membered that nearly three-fourths of this share capital was issued to and is held by the present holders at a price of not more than X27 10s., and if a dividend of only 1 per cent. on the whole capital could be divided, the holders would receive something like 4 per cent. on their investment. A large proportion of the earnings of these, as well as of other railways, is absorbed by preference stocks, the interest of which is made a first charge upon the profits. But the prefer- ence shareholders are as much partners in the concern as are the holders of ordinary stock, and in order to >- estimate correctly the paying value of a railway, the whole net and divisible profits, after payment of work- ing expenses, should be taken into account, not merely the dividend paid on the open stock. Let us see what would have been the case with some railways, now admittedly in a prosperous condition, had this test of non-payment of dividend been applied to them, and they had been treated as insolvent. For five half years the Caledonian paid no dividend-it now pays 71 percent.; the Maryport and Carlisle paid no dividend for seven half-years-its dividend is now 9 per cent.; the North British paid no dividend for six years—it now gives 3 per cent. to its shareholders; the Manchester and Sheffield paid nothing from December, .1848, to June, 1855 in 1858, 1862, and one half of 1863 it divided nil now p4 -ys2 per cent. The Great Eastern failed to pay dividends oil their open stocks in 1848, '50, and '51. The Furness, the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Norfolk, the London and Brighton, Midland Great Western of Ireland, Monmouthshire, Scottish Central, North Staffordshire, South Wales, the North Eastern, and others have also been at one time or other non-paying lines." All these companies would at once have been sold to the highest bidder if default to pay a dividend had been .considered as- acts of insolvency, and been brought within the provisions of the law of bankruptcy. -Railway Mews.

FALCONRY AT THE CAMP OF CHALONS, It is at the tsme of the races that the Emperor pays liis annual visit to tho camp, and in consequence that period was chosen for solemnly inaugurating the new i hawking club but his Majesty's illness unfortunately prevented his being present. M. Alfred WerltS's bro- ther-in-law, the Count Charles de Montebello, captain the Algerine negro ti'oops, had taken up his resi- dence for the time of the camp at the Falconiy, and when M. Werle could net come down from Reims, he I himself, with the other members of the hunt present, ,did the honours of the meet. Circulars were issued to themesfiI of every regiment on the evenings previous to Lthe hunts, stating the time and place of rendez- vous, and the invitations were eagerly responded to. It would ibe difficult to give a correct id?a of like enthusiasm with which the new sport was received by all the officers of the Guard, who this year formed the camp. Some of the numerous public flights which took place during the past month have proved most interesting. The meets were splendid. Imagine 11 It, two or three hundred officers on horseback, with their glittering uniforms, carriages of every description, breaks with bells and postillions, daumonts, &c., and you may gain a faint idea of the animation displayed about the falconry on the farm of Boug, the usual rendezvous of the meets. It was not easy at first to get this brilliant multitude in order so as not to interfere with the birds and falconers, but after a few times the officers took so great a pleasure in the flights that they gave the falconers all possible aid, and sometimes brought fcack to the cadger, with great tact and skill, J some of the birds which had roamed too far and had J stricken ifoeir prey' oúforsïgbt.- Among the sports- men who took most interest in the sport I must not for- get a YOUllg Spanish nobleman, M. Alfonso, who used the hawks very skilfully, and showed himself always first at the death.-The Fieùl.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. j Among the local Acts passed in the late Session was one to enable the Metropolitan Board of Works to make improvements, which it is declared would be of .great public utility, in widening and forming new streets in Kensington, and special provisions have been framed for the benefit of the labouring elasses, which will ,doubtless be acted upon in respect to other public im- provements. The Aet is not to be enforced before the 1st of October, unless a law shall have been passed for the benefit of the labouring classes. Plans of the alter- ations contemplated have been deposited with the Clerk ,of the Peace of Middlesex. The compulsory purchase of property required is limited to five years, and the compensation is be ascertained by a jury or an arbitrator, and the funds may be raised by an- nuities, which, as well as moneys raised by mortgage, are to be charged on the rates of the Metropolis Management Act. The following provisions have re- ference to the labouring classes:—"The Board shall, not less than eight weeks before they take in any parish 1.5 houses or more, occupied either wholly or partially by persons belonging to the labouring classes, as tenants or lodgers, make known their intention to take the same by placards, handbills, or other general notice placed in public view, upon or within a reasonable distance from such houses, and the Board shall not take any such houses until they have obtained the certificate of a justice that it has been proved to his satisfaction that the Board have made known their intention to take the same in manner herein before required; The Board shall not put in force the powers of this Act earlier than the 1st of October, 1866, unless, in the mean- time, the present or any future Parliament before that date shall pass an Act as to the dwellings of the labouring classes taken for public improve- ments, or any other public purposes, and the Board shall be subject to the provisions of any such Act, whether or not tlf same shall be expressly incorporated in this Act. In the event of no such Act having been passed before the 1st of October, 1866, any person who I would not otherwise be entitled to compensation, who may be removed under this Act from any tenement, shall be entitled to reasonable compensation from the Board for the loss occasioned by such removal, such compensation, in ease of dispute, to be settled by the police magistrate of the district in which the tenements shall be situate; and the Board shall not be at liberty either directly or indirectly to put an end to such tenancy without making such compensation, provided that this compensation shall not extend to any case where the rent shall exceed 8s. per week." The Act is to be cited as The Kensington Improvement Act, 1866."

CINQUE POIITS.-Tlic question of precedency in the Cinque Ports is at length to be definitively settled by a reference to the Lord Warden, Lord Granville, who will be guided in his decision by the advice of the law officers of the crown. NEW THEATRE IN LIVERPOOL.—The new Prince of Wales Theatre and Opera-house, Lime-street. Liver- pool, is now fast approaching completion, and promises to be one of the most perfect places of the kind. The directors have accepted Mr. Alexander Henderson, of the present Prince of Wales Theatre, as their lessee, and he opens on the 16th of October, with Italian Opera, for which Titiens. Mario, and others are en- gaged. Sothcrn and Toole have accepted engagements for the interval to Christmas, when a pantomime oa Robinson Crusoe, by Mr. Byron, is to be produced. OBAN.-The Glasgow Herald says This little village, with its two thousand inhabitants, is being sup- plied with corporation water equal to 100,000 gallons per day. The water is 4coliveyed in metal pipes three miles in length, at a cost of £ 2,000, or thereby an artificial lake has been formed there, acres in extent,'and 300 feet above the sea level, for storing a supply equal to the consumption of 100 days. The funds are beinn- borrowed from Government at 5 per cent., payable in 20 instalments. We understand that ground has been feued for a public cemetery, nearly two miles bevond the burgh boundary—the Council having also under con- sideration the construction of a complete system of drainage. The Government have agreed to grant loans for all these undertakings. These improvements are highly necessary, in view of the large number of English 11 and foreign tourists passing and repassing through the place."

JU CORN EXCHANGE. The country markets held on Saturday ruled firm for wheat, and prices advanced 2s to 4s per quarter. Barley was steady, and prices ruled firm. Oats were in fair de- mand, at full currencies. Beans and peas met a slow sale, but without material change in price. Flour was a fail demand, at late rates. On the Continent, the wheat trade is firm, at advancing prices. For spring corn the trade is steady. At NOW York, the business doing in produce for export to England is small. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home- grown wheat were very moderate. The trade ruled firm, and prices were 3s to 4s per qr. higher than on Monday last. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat, and the trade ruled firm, at an improvement ot 2s per qr. Floating cargoes of grain moved off steadily, and wheat improved in value Is per qr. Barley was a short supply, and the trade ruled eteady- at full currencies. Malt sold heavily, at barely late rates. Oats were a fair supply, and the trade was steady, at-, full quotations. Beans and peas ruled firm, at quite late rates. Flour was in fair demand, at last Monday's currency. CURRENT PRICES. FerQr. WRIAR. s. s. PTAP., g. s._ Essex, Kent, red, 1865 44 55 Grey 33 15 Ditto, 1866 40 50 Maple S5 sa Ditto, white, 1865 48 60 White. 37 49 Ditto. 1866 45 55 Boilers 88 40 Foreign, red 44 48 Foreign, wblite. 34 40- Ditto, white. 48 60 Ryx 26 BAKUY. OATS. English, Malting SO 35 English Feed 20 25 „ Chevalier 37 41 „ Potato 25 80 „ Distilling 26 30 Scotch Feed. 22 26 Foreign 19 26 „ Potato 25 80 LLT. Irish black 19 H. Pale 64 67 „ White 20 25 Chevalier 64 68 Foreign Feed 20 24- Brown 48 63 Fwroa. BBAMS. Per Sack. Ticks 41 43 Town-made 47 58 Harrow. 43 46 Country Marks 34 37 small 46 SO Norfolk and Suffolk 34 36 Egyptian 37 41 BREAD. The prices in the Metropolis are. for wheaten Bread, per 41b loaf 8d to 8Jd Household Bread 6jd to 7 £ d METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. This market is better supplied with beasts, although the number is not large. Trade is not so brisk, and it is dif- ficult to realise on top quotations. Although the number of sheep is by no means large, we have difficulty in effect- ing a clearance. Trade is slow, and prices generally rather lower. There are a few more calves, but choice qualities are still dear. Our foreign supply consists of 630 beasts,. 1,940 sheep, 190 calves, and 165 pigs, Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior beasts.. 4 Oto4 6 PrimeSouthDown Second quality.. 4 2004 10 Sheep 6 2to6 4 I Prime large oxen 6 4to5 8 Large calves. ,4 Oto410 Prime Scots, &c.5 6to5 10 Prime small do. 5 Oto6 0 .Inferior sheep ..4 Oto4 4 Large hogs 3 4tr4 6 Second quality.. 4 8to5 2 Nt. smaUporkers4 8to5 0 Coarse wld.sheep5 6105 10 I Lambs — Suckling calves, 21s to 23s: and quarter-old store pigs, 30s to 33s each. I TOTAL SUPPLY.—Beasts, 1,020; sheep, 7,020; cows,— calves, 260; pigs, 250. FOBEIGN.—Beasts, 400; sheep, 1,600; calves, 212; pigs, 70. NEWGATE AND LBADENHALL MARKETS. The supplies of meat on sale here to-day are only mode- rate. The trade is firm, and prices have an upward tendency. rer 8lbs. by the camme. a. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. Inferior beef 3 6 to 4 2 In. Mutton.. 3 8 to 4 4 Middling ditto 4 4 to 4 6 Middlingditto 4 6 to 5 4 Prime large do 4 8 to 4 10 Prime ditto..5 6 to 5 8 Prime im. do. 4 10 to 5 0 Veal 4 2to5 2 Large Pork 4 0to4 6 Small pork.. 4 8 to 5 0 Lambs 5s Od to 6s Od PROVISION MARKETS. Butter: All qualities are saleable only at lower pricesv Fine Irish sold at Is to 2.. decline, and Jersey and Normandy, 4s. Bacon: Prices of Irish are without change, but Hamburg, owing to large arrivals and a limited demand, shows a decline of 2s to 3s per cwt. Hams Fine continue scarce and in good request. Lard shows a decline of 2s to 4% per cwt. Cheese: American has be- come dull of sale. PRICES OF BUTTER, CHBESB, HAMS, &C. BUTTER, per cwt. s. s. CHEESE, per cwt. a. Friesland 112 to 114 Cheshire 72 to 84 Jersey 90 104 Dble. Gloucester..74 78 Dorset.116 120 Cheddar .76 84 Carlow American.66 74 Waterford — HAMS: York .90 100 Cork — Cumberland .90 100 Limeriok— Irish 90 100 Sligo — — BACON.— Fresh, per doz., lis Od to Wiltshire ..74 80 14s 6d. Irish, green 66 72 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKETS. Fair average supplies of potatoes are on Bale. The trad* Fair average supplies of potatoes are on Bale. The trads I ill steady at our Quotations. English Shaws 60s to 80s per ton. Regents, old 70s to 110s „ Foreign —B to _s HOP MARKET. Onr trade ist quiet, and as the new crop is now so nearly due. it can scarcely be expected that merchants will burthen themselves with more stock than they actually require to fulfil positive orders. Prices continue very firm, and samples of good quality are the only ones inquired for. A bout 200 pockets of the new crop have already reached our market, the quality of which is exceedingly good for first pickings, and a few sales have been effected at £ 7 7t to u 10s per cwt. Reports from the plantations are on the whole more satisfactory, the fine warm weather has improved the crop generally, and both buir and hop have progressed since. Mid and East Kent 105s, 140s, 180s. Weald of Kent 100s, 120s, 140s. Farnham and Country 100s, 125s, 163s. |U88e* • 90s, 110s, 140s. Bavarians 147s, 170s. Belgians 100s, 112s, 125s. Yearlings 95s, 110s, 130s. XOREIGN HOPS.—The imports of foreign hops WAS confined to 43 bales from Boulogne. I n_ HAY AND STRAW MARKETS. V I-IMITHFIELD.-I)emand inactive. C U BIBERLAND.-Trade- quiet. WHITECHAPEL.—Inquiry limited. SMITHFIELD. CUMBERLAND. WHITECHAPEL; Meadow Hay 85 s to 110s 85s to 110s 85a to 110s Clover Ms to 130s 195a to 130s 95s to 130s straw 38s to 48s 40s to 50s 38s to 48s At per load of 36 trusses. WOOL MARKET. There is a much firmer feeling io this market, caused by the further reduction in the Bank rate for money, and pr CDs have advanced fully id. per lb. The quantity of wool on offer is only moderate; but the demand for export is heavy. r Current prices of English wool (per lb ) FLEECES.—South Down hoggets Is 7 id to Is 8<F Half-bred do. Is 9kri to Is 10id Kent fleeces Is Sd to Is 9d Sauth Down, ewes and wethers Is 7d to Is 8d R™ Lester 4°- Is 7d to Is 9* BOETS.—Clothing Is 6d to Is 10*< Combing Is to 2s 0# TALLOW MARKET. The tallow market to-day is quiet at the following prices Town tallow, 44s 9d net; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot. 46a 3d, old ditto, new, 46s; October to Decem- ber, 46s 3d; December, 47s; January to March, 47s 3d. COAL MARKET. Buddie's West Hartley 18s, Hastings- Hartlev 18« Tyne Main 15s Cd, Hetton 22s. Hetton Lvons 20s Kepier Grange 20s 9d, New Belmont 20s 9d, Ilussell'i Hetton 20s 9 i, South Hetton 22s, Cassop 20s 9d T^rt l

IRISH RAILWAYS.—On the 10th nit. an Act was passed to enable the Public Works Loan Commissioners to make temporary advances to railway companies in Ireland. It recites that in the present state of the monetary affairs of the kingdom it is expedient that provision should be made for authorising loans for short periods. Advances may be made to £ 500 000 and charged on the Consolidated Fund. The repayment of a loan, with the interest thereon, is not to be later than twelve calendar months from the date of the advance and if the principal money or interest secured by any debenture or other security ;given under the Act re- mains unpaid at the expiration of six months after it has become due, the Commissioners may appoint a receivei. A security given is to be exempted from the stamp duty. In consequence of the Reduction of Duty, Horniman's Teas are now supplied by the ALelItS EIGHTPE-NCL per lb. cheaper. Every Genuine Packet is signed Horniman and 00." PRACTICE AND THEORY OF BANKING.—The Spectator m reviewing Mr. H. D. Madeod's wotk tf"ZlSng, says Mr. Macleod explains at length and lucidly how the rate of discount, sedulously adjusted by the bullion in tne Wank and the state of the foreign exchanges, distin- gnishes pretty sharply between real and fictitious capital, and brings to well-deserved grief the speculators who arc always ready to act upon the principle that credit is capital, and to demand that the currency of the country shall be adapted to their line of action. Against this Mr. Macleod sets his face, and the part of his work that deals with the practice of banking, and includes a philosophical investigation of the Bank Act of 1S4-1 is well worthy of attention.